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Durst now sits in a Texas jail. Galveston district attorney Kurt Sistrunk told TIME he plans to pursue a charge of bail jumping against Durst, for which he could receive a prison term of up to 10 years. And Durst could soon be back in court to face a wrongful-death civil suit brought by Black's sister Gladys Saslaw, which would require a lighter burden of proof than the one he faced for Black's murder. For that, he may have to mount another extraordinary performance. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Simon Crittle/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...officials originally posited that many of the attackers were criminals Saddam had released from jail on the eve of the U.S. invasion as well as foreign terrorists allied with al-Qaeda. Now the Pentagon believes that the overwhelming majority are former Baath Party officials and other Saddam loyalists. Major General Charles Swannack Jr., commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, told the Washington Post last week he believed Saddam planned the insurgency in advance of the war. U.S. Central Command chief General John Abizaid dismissed the idea. According to the former Saddam aide, the deposed President is not leading the resistance...
...streets, the rapper couldn't find peace and didn't make it. Pummeled by cops after an arrest for jaywalking in 1991, he sued the Oakland Police Department for $10 million (and got $42,500). It didn't always go his way. He beat several assault charges before doing jail time for sexual abuse of a woman...
...February 1999 Ryu headed to Hyesan, where with the help of a middleman who assured her he'd bribed the border guards, Ryu waded across the river. She walked straight into a group of Chinese police staking out the area. After a night in jail, Ryu was forcibly repatriated back to North Korea and sent to a refugee-detention center. The camp consisted of five or six underground cells, each packed with about 80 people. Meals comprised a handful of boiled corn kernels and salty water. The good days, Ryu recalls, were when a guard with big hands dispensed...
...gotten past the languishing-in-prison stage, and, unlike his predecessors, it looks as though he will stand and face the trumped-up charges against him without swearing fealty to the president. For the crime of challenging Putin, Khodorkovsky could spend the next decade or so in jail...