Charges tossed against hammer-attack suspect after accuser refuses to testify without a mask
Image from Shutterstock.com. An Oregon judge dismissed charges against a suspect in a hammer attack Monday after his accuser refused to testify against him without a mask. Heather Fawcett refused to testify in the retrial of Pedro Sanchez because she feared a COVID-19 infection that could be passed along to her ailing parents, the Oregonian reports in a story summarized by the New York Post, Fox News and Scallywag and Vagabond. “It’s the second time I’m going through this trial,” Fawcett told the Oregonian. “And now you’re gonna tell me I have to expose my friends and my family and people that I care about and myself to this virus?”