Law: The 21 Faces of Sarah

A jury must decide whether a woman claiming to have multiple-personality disorder was sexually assaulted

The events leading to the opening this week of one of the nation's most extraordinary sex-crime trials began with an encounter last June beside a fishing hole in Wisconsin's Menominee Park. Mark Peterson, 31, an Oshkosh grocery worker, wandered up to a group gathered on the bank and sat down beside a 26-year-old woman who called herself Franny. Over the next several minutes, as Peterson watched, her personality underwent several profound changes. Would you like to go dancing? he asked. Others who were present have since testified that they told Peterson the woman's true name was Sarah (her last name is...

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