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Posted: 7:28 PM Jun 3, 2007
Zurkowski Changing His Plea
Spencer man accused of shoving a decorative Easter plate down his wife's throat and killing her changes his plea to not guilty
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A Spencer man accused of killing his wife by shoving a decorative Easter plate down her throat is changing his plea.
39-year-old Patrick Zurkowski pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, but know he is changing it to not guilty. Zurkowski spent four months in a mental health facility before a judge ruled he was competent to stand trial. He had been found mentally incompetent before.
Zurkowski is accused of killing his wife June during a deadly beating in March 2006. His trial is scheduled for October.
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