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Despite threats, stabbing victim testifies in Phila. court

3:33 PM on 05/24/2010

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In Courtroom 801, Maurice Ragland began to shake. The drug dealer who shot him twice in the head had just been led in for a May 6 sentencing hearing.

Ragland's nerves were raw. The tremors began in his shoulder, rippled to his fingers - a lingering effect of his wounds.

Ragland was left for dead nearly four years ago in a puddle of blood beneath a West Philadelphia streetlamp.

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