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Did you know that in Maine, you can be a convicted killer and get elected to the Bangor City Council?

Well, now you do because that's exactly what happened in Bangor this week!

Here's the deal ... In 2002, a woman named Angela Walker and her brother, Benjamin Humphrey , reportedly got into an altercation with Canadian tourist Derek Rogers on Old Orchard Beach -- a resort town in Maine.

During the fight, Rogers allegedly hurled a Native American slur at Walker ... and Rogers was later discovered savagely beaten and suffocated with sand.

In 2003, Walker and Humphrey were convicted of killing Rogers after pleading guilty to manslaughter, according to the Bangor Daily News (BDN). Walker also pleaded guilty to perjury and was given a 10-year prison term, the n

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