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...that he would back his player 100% if she took this forward in the criminal process," according to a police report released last week. Later that year, three women say they were raped at or after a recruiting party. No charges were filed, though three players pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of providing alcohol to minors...
Eventually, because of what he said was a guilty conscience, Faneuil approached federal investigators, admitted he had lied, and agreed to testify against Bacanovic and Stewart. In return, he was charged with a misdemeanor for initially misleading the government...
...three were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor...
...driving home - he killed himself and a family of four by heading down a nearby freeway in the wrong direction. The tribunal ordered Angélique, 28, and Jean-Sébastien, 30 - known only by their first names - to stand trial for "non-prevention of a crime or misdemeanor that causes bodily harm" after allowing Frédéric Colin, 29, to get behind the wheel in February 2000. Tests showed Colin's blood-alcohol level was around three times the legal limit; the appeals court meanwhile ruled the couple - who contest the charges - should have alerted police...
General Reinhard Gunzel was the commander of Germany's fabled Special Ops force, the KSK. No more. Last Tuesday, he was sacked for writing a letter to an obscure backbencher named Martin Hohmann. Normally, penning a letter to a parliamentarian hardly qualifies as high crime and misdemeanor. Germany is different, and for good reason. In his missive, the general praised the deputy for an "excellent speech" and assured him that "the majority of our people shares your thoughts." What had Herr Hohmann said? He'd called the Jews not a nation of victims but a "nation of perpetrators," responsible...