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John Harper terrorized his neighbors on Dictionary Hill.

He hurled curses through stones, drove cars off the road, until one day a resident took matters and a pistol into their own hands.

Would a jury believe that Harper, who some called the town bully, had it coming?

Hi, I'm Vinny Politan and on this week's court TV podcast, we're taking a deep dive into this case with an audio edition of our original series, Someone They New

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This week's episode is titled Bad Neighbor.

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Spring Valley in the mid-9090s was a working-class neighborhood.

Not a lot going on there.

And the long comes John Harper Jr.

It was someone who did terrorize the neighborhood.

A car in the hands of John Harper is essentially a lethal weapon.

He tailgate people and it engage a lot of menacing activities.

A lot of the neighbors felt helpless that they couldn't do anything about it.

They wanted the sheriff to do something.

They didn't do anything.

Danny had had enough.

He'd had enough. By the fall of 1995, the quiet town of Spring Valley, California had turned into a powder keg ready

to explode.

For the past several years, the neighbors in this sleepy enclave have had to deal with the erratic and dangerous behavior

of one of its residents. The escalating situation ultimately led to a

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