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48 Hastings L.J. 1257 (1996-1997)
Jeffrey Dahmer and the Cosynthesis of Categories

handle is hein.journals/hastlj48 and id is 1285 raw text is: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Cosynthesis of Categories by PETER KwAN Prologue On May 27, 1991, two teenage cousins noticed what they described as a wounded butt naked young boy in the street. The two cousins were Sandra Smith and Nicole Childress. They lived next to Oxford Apartments, a set of cinderblock low-rise apartments in the North Side of Milwaukee where Jeffrey Dahmer lived. The boy was fourteen years old. His name was Konerak Sinthasomphone. Konerak and his family fled Laos 12 years earlier. The communists had threatened to take away his father's rice farm near Vientiane, the capital of Laos. So, one night, Konerak's father sent his family across the Mekong River in a canoe into Thailand where they lived in a refugee camp for a year before a Catholic relocation program helped them to move to Milwaukee. To Sandra Smith and Nicole Childress, however, Konerak appeared a badly beaten and bruised boy. He was bleeding. He was naked and he was having difficulty standing and speaking. They called 911. Their call was also forwarded to the Fire Department who said that they would send an ambulance. Three white police officers arrived at the scene. Officers Richard Porubcan, John Balcerzak, and Joseph Gabrish interviewed Dahmer in an alley. Dahmer told the officers that Konerak's name was John * Assistant Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law. My gratitude and affection to the following for their advice, friendship and encouragement: Professors Mar- galynne Armstrong, June Carbone, Robert Chang, Adrienne Davis, Angela Harris, Francisco Valdes, and Robert Westley; and my research assistants, Andrew Kim and Kavita Sood. Please don't blame any of these good people for my mistakes. This Article has been through several iterations. Some of them have profited from the Law and Identity Workshop at Boalt Hall School of Law, and from a summer research grant from Santa Clara University School of Law. [12571

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