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...entire Internet at risk. Exon and Coats revised the bill but left in place the language about using "indecent" words online. "It's a frontal assault on the First Amendment," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. Even veteran prosecutors ridicule it. "It won't pass scrutiny even in misdemeanor court," says...
...year-old actor, best known as the lead in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," invited a "known prostitute" into his car in the wee hours and was later "observed to be engaged in an act of lewd conduct." He's due in a Los Angeles courtroom to face a misdemeanor charge July...
...himself. And one of the latest jurors to be dismissed, Francine Florio-Bunten, got in trouble with Judge Ito in part because of charges, which she has denied, that she was meeting with a literary agent. Although the California legislature attempted to end this chaos by making it a misdemeanor for any juror to profit from a criminal case until 90 days after the conclusion of the trial, that statute has already been successfully challenged by Dove, which recently convinced the courts that Michael Knox's First Amendment rights were being violated...
...former aide to President Clinton during his tenure as Arkansas governor today pleaded guilty in theWhitewater investigationto charges of misusing a $65,000 federally backed small-business loan. Stephen Smith, also a business partner of newly-indicted Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker , plea-bargained for a misdemeanor charge and promised to cooperate with Whitewater investigators. "Smith was a lot closer to Clinton that Jim Guy Tucker ever was," saysTIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. Worse for Clinton, Ratan says, the Smith and Tucker indictments suggest that prosecutors find credence in the related story of Little Rock judge David Hale...
Nina Solarz, wife of former New York congressman Stephen Solarz, agreed today to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of writing a bad check on her husband's House bank account and improperly taking $7,500 from the American Friends of Turkish Women, a charity she runs. Mrs. Solarz admitted that she knew her husband's House account was overdrawn when she ordered a congressional staffer to write a check for $5,200 in 1990. She is not expected to serve jailtime. Ex-Rep. Solarz, who himself had a large number of overdrafts from the House Bank, was cleared...