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Germany: Victim refuses to testify after defendant proposes

| September 17, 2020 9:03 AM

BERLIN (AP) — A 48-year-old man in Germany avoided a lengthy jail sentence after he made a marriage proposal in court to the woman he was on trial for allegedly trying to kill with a bayonet and she refused to testify against him.

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