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...August. The schoolmates are charged with stabbing Michael Stephenson, an unemployed house painter, 17 times, then slashing his throat. It was the second murder of a homeless person in Santa Barbara in nine months. Kurtzman admitted the killing, but defended himself by explaining that he had been looking for gang members who had harassed some fellow students. At week's end the jury had not reached a decision...
...manacled men showed no emotion as a Shanghai court pronounced them guilty of either raping or molesting 48 women between 1981 and 1984. As a crowd of 3,000 looked on, three of the gang members were whisked off to the outskirts of the city. There the trio were unceremoniously executed by gunshots to the back of the head. What made the swift justice remarkable was that two of the three were sons of senior Chinese officials. Their deaths were the most dramatic sign yet of Peking's determination to stamp out rampant nepotism...
Indeed, beginning in the late 1970s "the Sicilian connection" became the chief supplier of heroin to the U.S. and Europe. Drugs have filled the Sicilian clans' coffers with billions of dollars and have been the focus of Sicilian gang wars that have killed at least 300 since 1981. The new drug Mafia has also gunned down several high-ranking Italian security officials, including General Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the prefect of Palermo who was assassinated in September 1982. Dalla Chiesa's murder resulted in a spate of new laws that led directly to the current trial. Some of those...
...study released last week by the National Center for Computer Crime Data, a Los Angeles research firm. The results of the survey, the first comprehensive study of people who have been prosecuted under computer-crime laws, suggest that although teenagers like the members of Milwaukee's widely heralded "414" gang are a real annoyance, the most serious losses are caused by electronic miscreants who are a good deal older and not half so clever. "Generally, these are unsophisticated crimes," says the center's director, Jay BloomBecker. "The myth that computer crime is this romantic activity done by geniuses and involving...
...desperadoes took over the courtroom, said Journalist and Hostage Dominique Guillet upon his release a few hours later, "there was a surreal moment when the hostage takers became the magistrate and the jury." That seemed to be precisely what the leader of the criminal gang, Defendant Georges + Courtois, 38, had in mind when he demanded that television cameras be brought into the courtroom. "You have been judging me," the gaunt Courtois said with icy calm. "Now it is our turn to judge you." Waving a pistol and smoking a cigar, he launched into a lengthy harangue, warning that the "slightest...