An Olympic Hockey Hero, a Violent Crime and the Specter of Brain Trauma

[doniceage]

H He walks into the courtroom, hands cuffed at his waist, an armed deputy in a flak jacket at his side. He wears a white-and-gray striped jumpsuit with “Lake Co. Jail” in large red letters on the back. Short with neatly combed hair, a trimmed gray beard and brown plastic-rimmed glasses, he does not glance at his 87-year-old mother in the front row or at his sister beside her, or his brother or two cousins and a friend. He sits at a small table beside his attorney and faces the judge.

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[kurri17]

This is a heartbreaking story. Despite his decline, I will always remember him as the player he was, frozen in time.