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(AP) -- BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) - Justice delayed is justice denied unless, as a Bay County Jail inmate claimed, he couldn't appear in court because warm coleslaw had made him sick. Joshua J. Archey's trial on charges of beating a man with a baseball bat was to begin Thursday. But defense attorney Kenneth Malkin told Circuit Judge Joseph Sheeran that his client had gotten food poisoning by eating warm coleslaw at the jail.
Jail administrator Capt. Newt Jerome defended his lockup's cabbage concoction, saying no other inmates who ate the coleslaw had become ill.
Sheeran rescheduled the trial for Friday morning after Malkin told the judge Archey likely would be feeling well enough to be in court.
Archey faces trial on charges including assault with intent to murder in the Feb. 13 attack.
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