Man convicted for killing roommate with sword
Jerry Thompson, a 45-year-old Connecticut man, has been convicted of the brutal decapitation of his roommate, Victor King, using a samurai sword. The gruesome act was the culmination of a rent dispute, as stated by the Hartford State Attorney’s Office. Thompson, who dismissed his court-appointed lawyer, chose to represent himself during the trial, speaking minimally and refraining from cross-examining the state’s witnesses. Thompson submitted a handwritten legal document, “Sovereign Immunity,” in which he claimed that …