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...culprit as victim began with the Twinkie defense, which freed the killer of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk; too much sugar made him do it. More recently Damian Williams, videotaped beating trucker Reginald Denny during the Los Angeles riots, was found not guilty because he got caught up in the moment. Lorena Bobbitt convinced a Virginia jury that being physically and sexually abused by her husband, forced to have sex when she didn't want to and failing to "have orgasm," drove her to cut off his penis. She only has to see a psychiatrist...
...sphinx somewhat shinier and more purple than the original, plus smaller versions of the pyramids and New York City's Chrysler Building. There's one lively visual joke: after a famine, the sheep Joseph's family tended reappear as skeletons. On the human scale, the show stars Michael Damian's pectoral muscles, which are on all but nonstop display. That is just as well because the rest of his talents range from innocuous to boring. He is a major star if, and only if, you watch the soap opera The Young and the Restless. Robert Torti plays a pharaoh...
When one of the most tumultuous jury deliberations in recent memory ended with something close to acquittal for Damian Monroe Williams, 20, and Henry Keith Watson, 29, some of Los Angeles celebrated, but much of the city -- and the U.S. -- was stunned. Out of the 12 counts facing both men, the jury returned one felony conviction. For disfiguring Denny with a brick, Williams was found guilty of simple mayhem, which carries a prison term of up to eight years. Watson, who was convicted on a misdemeanor assault charge that carries a six-month prison term, was released from jail, where...
...trial for beating white truck driver Reginald Denny during the Los Angeles riots last year, Damian Williams and Henry Watson, both black, were acquitted of attempted murder and a dozen other felony counts. The defendants were convicted on five misdemeanor charges, and Williams was convicted of felony mayhem. The victim said he approved of the verdicts, but many wondered whether the jury was lenient out of fear of causing another round of unrest...
...mirror, not a mind-control device Entertainment programming is a reflection of what we like; news programming is a reflection of what we do. If we are to judge from the jubilant gesticulations of Damian Williams as he crushed Reginald Denny's skull, some people find violence uniquely satisfying and do not hesitate to do violent things. This is what must be changed. When we don't like the image we see in the mirror, we may be tempted to smash it; that only hides the problem. We have to change ourselves...