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...defendants, Timothy J. Kelleher and Jose T. Sousa, are charged each with one count of assault and battery and another count of assault and battery to intimidate—both misdemeanor charges...
...attorney than as a legislator. “Where the rubber hits the road in criminal justice is in the DA’s office,” he said. In recent years, Barrios co-drafted legislation aimed at reducing gang-related violence. He also authored a bill banning assault weapons to replace the one that expired in Sept. 2004. Barrios, who has been state senator since 2003, also emphasized the need for reforms in domestic violence prosecution and prevention. He said that halfway houses for domestic offenders can serve to protect victims while keeping the offenders, who often provide...
After flying home the next day, she went to a hospital and was tested for evidence of sexual assault. The FBI, which is the lead agency for investigating incidents involving U.S. citizens on the high seas, took several weeks to interview the bartender, who claimed what happened in that bathroom stall had been consensual. After her criminal case landed in the "he said, she said" file, Kelly sued the cruise line, which promptly fired the bartender for misconduct (even consensual sexcapades between crew members and passengers are officially verboten) and sent him home to Jamaica. Several months later, she discovered...
...that contention. In one case, a passenger who was examined on board for evidence of gang rape sued the cruise line after ship security, by allowing housekeeping to repeatedly steam-clean the carpet, failed to preserve the alleged crime scene. In another case, a passenger accused of sexual assault testified that a ship security officer coached him to state that "no sex was performed by anyone." Cruise lines, says maritime lawyer Charles Lipcon, "are silently working against the victim. They're busy trying to make sure criminal cases don't see the light...
Perhaps that's the reason only 7% of the 135 federal investigations into sexual assault over the past five years were prosecuted. Why were 93% of the cases dropped? Says Bill Carter of the FBI: "By the time we can get to [the victim and witnesses], a period of time has passed, people's memories change, they were intoxicated, or there is a lack of evidence because it was cleaned...