Connected

There's been a murder.

An eyewitness has come forward, and the killer has confessed.

But there's a problem. The two are conjoined twins, literally joined at the hip since birth. For the police, keeping the murderer in custody means locking up his innocent brother along with him-an untenable situation.

The frustrated legal system wrestles with how to prosecute a murderer who is apparently immune from punishment, as any attempt to exact justice would surely affect his conjoined twin.

It appears t...