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Such self-policing is unlikely to satisfy the paparazzi's sharpest critics. California legislators like Tom Hayden are planning to introduce legislation to curb paparazzi exploits, such as requiring photographers to maintain a certain distance from their subjects. Such laws, however, might have a tough time passing constitutional muster because of the threat they pose to freedom of the press. (Not to mention the freedom of any grandmother at Disney World to snap pictures of a famous person who passes by.) Legal experts point out, moreover, that most abuses can be dealt with by current criminal laws (against trespassing...
Gore has had 16 months to get his facts straight but is still grasping for an acceptable explanation for his stumble into the Hsi Lai Temple in Southern California. First he understood the temple event to be "community outreach," and later he corrected his recollection to say he recognized it as having some in-reach too--calling it "finance related." Gore aides last week clumsily amended the official version yet again, saying Gore understood it to involve "donor maintenance," presumably the care and feeding of fat cats. Yet the aides also produced internal memos showing that many on the Vice...
...lunacy of the attack only grew later that day; the victims' families learned that the killers appeared to be bounty hunters who had hit the wrong house. The five, who were all captured and arrested over the following three days, carried papers indicating they had been looking for a California fugitive, who seems to have had no connection to the dead couple or anyone else in the house. The ragtag crew of bounty hunters included Michael Martin Sanders, 40, convicted in 1978 on a weapons charge and in 1982 of retaliating against a murder witness. "Calling yourself a bounty hunter...
...West still sets the standard of conduct for many in the field but not the geographic boundaries; bounty hunters roam from Manhattan to Southern California, renegades of the American criminal-justice system. Incredibly, only a handful of states have licensing requirements for bounty hunters. "The business is wide open," says Phoenix bail agent Linda Ownbey. "Anybody can get in, and anything can happen...
Last week's deaths are only the latest in a long line of serious bounty-hunting mishaps. Ten years ago, also in Phoenix, an 18-year-old California bounty hunter, looking to pick up a $1,500 bounty with his dad, shot and killed an unarmed fleeing man. Richard Bachellor died as his wife and three-year-old son looked on. In 1994 a grandmother of 13 was picked up--kidnapped, in effect--by bounty hunters as she sat on the steps of her Manhattan home. Jrae Mason was 13 cm taller and weighed considerably less than the fugitive...