2 face trials; 1993 victim has died
From Times Wire Reports
Two men imprisoned for beating a woman nearly 15 years ago have been ordered to stand trial on homicide charges now that she has died, allegedly from the old wounds.
Mary Mitchell, who was beaten in July 1993, was brain-damaged, bedridden and incapable of feeding herself when she died in September at a Pittsburgh-area nursing home.
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