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...hard for me to imagine that they will be able to show that kind of recklessness. But none of us know the facts yet of what he died of or what these doctors were doing." Involuntary manslaughter carries a criminal penalty of two to four years of jail time...
...Taylor's testimony is expected to last six to eight weeks, and a final verdict in the case is likely a year off. If convicted, he would serve his jail sentence - he's facing life imprisonment - in Britain. But even if he is acquitted, it doesn't mean his worries are over. Last week, the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report on the 1989-2003 civil wars. It has a list of eight warlords whom it wants brought to trial for crimes against humanity - and Taylor is on that list...
...Pierre, O'Brien faces a maximum penalty of 13 felonies, each carrying a maximum sentence of five years in state prison, along with five misdemeanors, each carrying a maximum sentence of 2.5 years in a house of corrections. While the sentence could aggregate to nearly 80 years of jail time, Pierre said a judge will ultimately determine how the sentences are distributed...
...curb drunk driving, MADD is emphasizing its negative economic impact. MADD estimates that drunk driving now accounts for 18% of the nation's auto-insurance bill and 20% of all emergency-room costs that are never reimbursed, as well as 16% of all probation costs and 6% of all jail cells used...
...Pasquarello, the police spokesman, said he suspects this kind of violence would decrease if convicted perpetrators could be retained in jail indefinitely, rather than be released to become repeat offenders. He said that the people involved in the recent incidents were “not strangers” to the police department, and Haas said that a number of the individuals were in fact released from prison around the same time as each other...