Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only trouble was that Cruz didn't kill Jeanine Nicarico. A sheriff's officer later admitted that he testified inaccurately about a key piece of evidence used at Cruz's trial. Cruz was freed in 1995, after 11 years in jail. Another man--a convicted murderer and rapist whose earlier confession to the murder had been ignored--was linked to the crime by DNA. After an independent investigation, seven prosecutors and law-enforcement officials were indicted on charges of fabricating and suppressing evidence to frame Cruz...
...suspects. But in connection with their investigation, they have questioned Billy Joe Strange, 39, a night janitor at the Cedar Lodge restaurant who was arrested on March 5 for violating parole. Having twice been convicted of assaulting women, he is being held without bail in the Mariposa County jail. According to local newspaper reports, the FBI has searched Strange's home, impounded his borrowed van and seized his payroll records. A roommate, Darrell Stephens, 55, told the Fresno Bee, "The FBI has been harassing us for two weeks now... The only reason they got [Strange] is because he was working...
...double dose of Ms. McBeal. In the first show, Ally (Calista Flockhart) lands in jail for wearing short skirts, Elaine makes condoms with customized phrases ("Take a number" for Ally), and Elaine's friend files suit against a feminist mag after being fired for being Baptist. In the second show, Ally lands in jail again for getting into a sidewalk scuffle (she does a spin kick!), a terrible unisex bathroom accident befalls Stefan, Cage's pet frog, and Ally represents a woman being sued for throwing her best friend into a garbage canister...
...extensive story on the scandal, and the FBI swept in. They started questioning Lee gently on Saturday then turned up the heat. By 10 p.m. on Sunday, a U.S. official informs TIME, Lee announced, "I'm not going to tell you anything, and I'm ready to go to jail." On Monday, Lee finally lost his job for allegedly breaking security rules: failing to report contacts with people from "sensitive" countries, failing to "safeguard" classified material and giving deceptive answers. So far, no criminal charges have been brought against him for his suspected offense...
Lewinsky: I'm not going to pretend that it was always about something bigger than me. Because, for me, it wasn't. For me, I was the one lying awake at night crying, scared I was going to go to jail. I was the one being followed. I was the one being torn apart in the press, and my family. And then, yes, I bore some responsibility for how that came about. But I don't know that the punishment fit the crime...