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...Kyriacos Panayiotou, and then supplied his stage name when asked if he used any other names, Kreins said. The arresting officer did not recognize the pop star, who identified himself as a singer when asked his occupation at the station, Kreins said. Michael, 34, was booked for investigation of misdemeanor lewd conduct and released after posting $500 bail. He was scheduled for arraignment in Municipal Court...
Ruiz--who argues that the celebration of Thanksgiving is disrespectful to American Indians--was charged with two misdemeanor offenses, disorderly conduct and tumultuous behavior...
What's more, under another statute Clinton would be guilty of misdemeanor adultery, although Lewinsky would not. D.C. Code Annual 16-904(b)(3) (enacted 1963), Posner and Silbaugh explain, stipulates that "when [adultery] is between a married woman and an unmarried man, both parties are guilty." On the other hand, when it occurs "between a married man and an unmarried woman, only the man is deemed guilty." Tough luck...
...offered Linda Tripp to guide Tripp's deposition testimony to lawyers for Paula Jones. Steve Smith, a longtime Clinton friend and adviser, is the former president of Madison Savings & Loan, the institution at the center of Whitewater. After being targeted by Starr, Smith entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of conspiring to divert government-backed loan proceeds. But he insists that lawyers on Starr's staff wrote out a prepared script for him to read before the grand jury. "It contained things I had told them time and time again were not true," he says. "Any allegation that...
Rather than an intentional defamation, Hilberg said that such mistakes may lie "in the realm of sloppiness," but that "this is a misdemeanor rather than a felony." He said he expects the revised version, which he has not yet seen, to be considerably improved...