Word: jails
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Yolanda Saldivar was sentenced Thursday to life in prison by the same jury that convicted her on Monday. The jury deliberated a total of 9 1/2 hours over two days before agreeing on the life sentence. Saldivar must spend at least 30 years in jail and pay a fine of $10,000. She did not face the death penalty because her crime did not contain the aggravating circumstances required for such punishment under Texas law. Saldivar shot Selena after the singer went to a Corpus Christi motel to fire her for embezzling...
West answered by citing the specificity of suffering, pointing out that 90 percent of blacks in jail...
Simpson picked NBC, his old employer, as the venue for his first interview largely at the urging of entertainment president Don Ohlmeyer, a friend of Simpson's who had visited him regularly in jail. NBC News president Andrew Lack worked out ground rules for the interview with Simpson--no questions were to be off limits--and picked Couric and Brokaw to do the questioning. One passed-over aspirant for the plum assignment, Bryant Gumbel (Couric's Today co-anchor and another friend of Simpson's), took the rejection hard; he didn't show up at work the rest...
...Nicole, is the estate's executor). Depositions in the Goldman suit were to have started this week but were postponed until Oct. 30 after Simpson hired a new attorney, civil litigator Robert Baker. It's rare for acquitted criminal defendants to be hit with such suits, which carry no jail time but could result in multimillion-dollar damage judgments. Explains Professor Welsh White of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law: "Most criminal defendants, unlike O.J. Simpson, do not have the kind of assets that would be worth pursuing...
...Richard Rayner, a British writer now living in Los Angeles, tells of how, while a Cambridge University undergaduate in the 1970s, he drifted into a yearlong crime spree of shoplifting, check forgery, housebreaking and bank fraud--following the mysterious disappearance of his father, who had been sent to jail for embezzlement. The writing is stripped-down Dostoyevsky ("My head itched. Cold sweat ran down my flesh...."), the overall effect as unnerving and oddly exhilarating as the life of a secret thief apparently was for the author...