Word: jails
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Legal correspondent Adam Cohen says a Massachusetts ruling today may influence whether childrenmust face down people they have accused of sexual abuse in court. Superior Court Judge Robert Barton decided that Violet Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave, both in jail since 1987, will be retried because the children they may have abused never had to face them while testifying. Courts often make allowances for children, Cohen says, but Barton's ruling, which follows five failed appeals by the women over eight years, "reflects a heightened concern about the veracity of sexual abuse charges that rely on children's testimony. People...
...took 11 days in jail, the threat of a contempt charge and finally a broad grant of immunity for Beverly Heard to testify against Congressman Mel Reynolds at his sexual-misconduct and obstruction-of-justice trial. Once on the stand, Heard took back a previous recantation and testified that the Illinois Democrat began having frequent sex with her when she was 16 and that he often paid her as much as $100 for the encounters. She said the relationship was consensual...
Thanks to an Italian law passed in 1993 that prevents people with AIDS from being thrown in jail, a group of HIV-infected bank robbers in Turin were freed after their fourth holdup in three weeks. The three men, described by police as heroin addicts with full-blown AIDS, have carried out dozens of heists. Said a police spokesman: "They know they can't be imprisoned, so they take no precautions...They robbed the last bank in full view of the security cameras, armed only with a pocket knife...
...move on to the rash of hearings which were made public. Take the Senate's unsuccessful attempts to 1) depose the attorney-general and 2) jail the president and first lady, both of which began with committee-chairing senators' vows that they had enough evidence to defame their executive-branch rivals. Hearing testimony before it's uttered is hard, real hard, guys...
TIME: What is your life in jail like...