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Article: NATIONAL NEWS BRIEFING.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 4, 1997
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Byline: Rocky Mountain News wire services
`Lizzie's Law' enactment likely
BOSTON - Massachusetts was expected this month to become the first state to enact a measure that would prohibit judges from requiring children to visit a parent who has killed the other parent, officials said Thursday.
Known as ``Lizzie's Law'' after the 3-year-old who witnessed the murder of her mother at her father's hands, the bill is expected to signed by Gov. William Weld.
Lizzie Thompson's father, Charles Thompson, is serving a life sentence without parole for the Aug. 3, 1995, murder of Andrea Thompson. Despite a restraining order, he broke in and stabbed ...