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left to go with the case, no matter how long it takes, no matter what the cost.
“We had an opportunity during the trial to compromise and it was everyone’s unanimous decision, including the attorneys who received no money and Betty and Johnny Paleologos, that if we compromised, we would be violating Ruth Holmes' last wish and we just couldn’t do that," Konick said.
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The story that came out piece by piece in Judge Shore Robertson's circuit court during the three week trial has all the ingredients of best selling fiction: missing hospital records, an old hunting dog that was the dead man’s "best friend,” contradictory opinions from medical experts. a revolutionary new theory on contested documents from an ex-FBI agent, allegations that the will was a doctored hospital release form, testimony that Bethesda Naval Hospital's tower 15 where Col. Holmes was treated is labeled with the sinister nickname. the ‘‘stairway to heaven,” because few patients ever come back down alive from the top floors, and charges that the colonel was suffering from a degenerative and progressive mental disorder which began as far back as the early 1960s.
A key point in the case centered around what transpired in Col. Holmes’ hospital room on October 27, 1979, the date of the will and • the day after Dr. Neilson, his out-patient physician for si* years, told the colonel he was dying and had probably two weeks to live. The will allegedly ex^uted on October 27 was witnessed and signed in that hospital room by two Bethesda staff members, both of whom
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