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That trial ended with Peterson’s conviction for murder, but a judge later ordered a new trial, and Peterson entered a special plea in 2017 acknowledging prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him of manslaughter.

It's a special plea for a form of moral reckoning, one that worship of the marketplace has made impossible.

"The special plea is dismissed," Judge Piet Koen said.

"I make a special plea to women who are pregnant or are breastfeeding. There is no impediment to you getting your vaccine," he said.

And he made a special plea for the government to make good on its promise to invest in the north of England.