Story Published:
Apr 24, 2006 at 8:16 AM PST
Story Updated:
Aug 20, 2006 at 9:11 PM PST
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - Jurors have convicted a dentist from
Battle Ground, in southwest Washington, of stabbing his wife to
death with a pair of scissors.
Sixty-year-old James Classen had claimed he was mentally
incapable of understanding his crime. He said he suffers from
bipolar disorder.
The jury found him guilty of first-degree murder just before
noon today.
Clark County prosecutor Tony Golik portrayed the stabbing of
56-year-old Eveann Classen as a "cold-blooded, premeditated
murder."
Golik said Classen was angry over a reported affair. He said
Classen took a pair of sewing scissors and stabbed his wife more
than 100 times in February of last year.
A videotape of Classen's confession to police was played for the
jury.
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