Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Tomasz Kosowski sat each day alone at the defense table. In a rare and largely unprecedented move for a death penalty case, Kosowski represented himself, waiving his right to a jury trial and allowing a judge in Pinellas County, Florida, to decide his fate.

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