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Galluccio resigned from his seat Jan. 5 after being sentenced to one year of jail for violating his house arrest by consuming alcohol. Candidates vying for his seat must submit their nomination by March 2, and the primary will be held on April...
Facebook is great at wasting your time, but could it keep you from doing hard time? So far, the site that connects people with their sixth-grade crushes and lets countless parents keep better tabs on their teenagers has helped at least one Facebook member stay out of jail...
...relatives while he was growing up in the northern suburbs of Boston. As a youth, he was arrested for shoplifting. He credits the judge, Samuel Zoll, for setting him straight, in part by making him write a 1,500-word essay on what his life would be like in jail. Brown told the Boston Globe: "The other day I was at Staples, and something was in my cart that I didn't pay for. I had to bring it back because ... I thought of Judge Zoll...
...second defendant, Nguyen Tien Trung, a French-educated IT engineer, also admitted to the court that he had joined the Democratic Party, though he said he made a mistake by engaging in pro-democracy activities and deeply regretted his actions. He was given a seven-year jail term. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, an Internet developer, who maintained that he had done nothing wrong, received a 16-year sentence. A fourth defendant received a five-year sentence as an accomplice to the other defendants...
...World Cup cities. South African officials claim that Parliament will pass a comprehensive law against human trafficking in early 2010. For now, enterprising police officers who take on human traffickers do so with few legal tools at their disposal. Convictions for trafficking-related offenses typically bring little or no jail time. And those vigilante humanitarians like Lombard face an emboldened and violent adversary, as I saw that evening. (See TIME's South Africa covers...