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Article: Allen trial to focus on work relationship
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- Palatine Countryside (IL)
- Article date:
- October 10, 1996
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Neal Allen killed his boss in 1994 because of job stress and to defend himself against his supervisor, who attacked him.
That is the legal tack defense attorneys planned to pursue as the two-year-old murder finally came to trial Oct. 2.
The trial is expected to last through next week.
Defense attorneys Patrick Tuite and Ronald Menaker allege that Allen, 48, and John Ebeling, his supervisor at the Palatine-based Square D Co., had been friendly through much of their professional association.
But their friendship crumbled as Ebeling, 51, grew increasingly dissatisfied with the Paris-based company that took over Square D, an electronics manufacturer, in 1991.
Allen took exception to ...
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Article: Jury accepts Allen's defense
Schaumburg Review (IL);
November 7, 1996 ;
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... ... what may have convinced the jury of Allen's innocence. The jury, however ... the media after the verdict. But Cathy Allen praised Tuite and co-defense counsel ... understandably, much more tense. Neal Allen sat in the seats behind the defense ...
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