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Gothard, who denies murder and an alternative count of manslaughter, was sitting in the dock on Tuesday wearing black glasses, and was shaking his head at times while prosecutor Peter Joyce KC opened the case.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

“I was shaking so badly I could barely get words out,” said Slack, a 46-year-old resident of Westfield, Mass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

He was shaking his hands after he climbed out of the car, because he had held on to the steering wheel on impact, but said nothing was broken.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

"He was shaking, he told me himself, and unable to walk without support," she said.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

She was shaking with fury and disappointment, so I guess she was moving again, but not in the way I wanted her to.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller