Mental patient asks for jury to set him free

Thursday, December 5, 2002

CHESTER, Ill. -- Mental patient Rodney Yoder told a Randolph County jury Wednesday that, if he's freed after 12 years, they will be releasing him from a "psychiatric death sentence."

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