On May 27, 1981, after learning there was a default hearing concerning bonds Mike's father had on our dead son I went by myself to Penobscot County Superior Court. And when an attorney neither Derald nor I knew began to argue for a reduced bail since Mike was dead. I stood up and asked if I could choose my own attorney. The judge agreed. The next day Bangor Daily News reporter Maureen Williams reported the hearing and said that Mike had committed aggravated assault. I knew nothing about an aggravated assault until years later when I found a State v Cochran case on the web concerning Mike appealing a fight he had outside a bar on Oct. 4, 1979 on his 23rd birthday. The information in the document concerning the appeal states assault not aggravated assault. I looked up the difference between aggravated assault v assault and it stated that assault or simple assault is when a person has clear intent to commit an assault against another person. And aggravated assault refers to a situation in which a person attempted to inflict serious injury without regard for the life or well-being of the victim. So why did Maureen Williams report to the public that Mike committed aggravated assault? Mike's father put up the bond for this charge and DA Cox found him in default on the bond, against our home, after Mike was murdered.