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...depends on how the jury parses her knowledge of good and evil. The prosecution has argued that she contemplated the murders for two years and later showed signs of remorse, all proof of moral clarity. But the defense will try to show that her rationalization process was insane. The jail psychiatrist testified that upon her arrest, she said, "I was so stupid. Could I have killed just one to fulfill the prophecy? Could I have offered Mary [her youngest]?" The jury could begin deliberating the case--and the conundrum of Andrea Yates' mind--this week or next...
...charges primarily because of an article alleging tensions between Thailand's King and Prime Minister. CONVICTED. FRANCOISE SAGAN, 66, French author whose debut novel Bonjour Tristesse, written at the age of 19, became an international best-seller, of tax fraud; in Paris. Sagan was given a one-year suspended jail sentence for failing to declare...
...Then the real action begins. The tattoo awakens demons, and Niwet, who spent time in jail for manslaughter, is on all fours on the gravel outside the temple, blood and ink oozing from his back. He bares his teeth, growls, rises with a feral roar and hurtles himself toward a row of monks chanting on a makeshift altar. But between him and the praying monks are 41 soldiers and volunteers recruited to subdue the devotees. They wrestle Niwet to the ground and one rubs his earlobe. That drives the demons away...
...killers were set free by police after paying a bribe of nearly a thousand dollars. The son's uninterred coffin rests on a flax-covered hillside overlooking Lanshan's valley. She met Liang Fuxiu, who says one of her husband's murderers bribed his way out of jail. The husband's coffin sits aboveground in a field behind the couple's home. Anonymous villagers began slipping notes under Li's door with stories of police corruption. Most common were complaints that police had taken money to release suspects. "Police arrest criminals like they're running a business," says Tian Liqing...
...certainly not defending what Suzanne and Randy allegedly did, for, if true, their actions are indefensible. They’ll have their day in court and if it results in a jail sentence, I won’t feel especially bad for them. That’s the price you pay for an ill-gotten hundred grand. I’m merely saying that I don’t feel a personal need or even a public obligation to make myself a part of their punishment...