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...going to arrest me for this?" he said. "This is a family matter. Why do you want to make a big deal out of it? We can handle it." Nicole eventually decided not to press charges, but the city attorney brought up O.J. on a misdemeanor charge of spousal battery. He was fined and placed on two years' probation after pleading no contest. So impermeable was his image, however, that the conviction did not prevent NBC Sports from signing him to a broadcast contract three months later. Last week, city district attorney Gil Garcetti called the handling of the case...
...when the critical vote counting starts, he may not be around to deliver. Last week it was widely leaked that his lawyer, Robert Bennett, had met with prosecutors in the chairman's long-running criminal case and suggested that the Congressman might be willing to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. If that proposition were rebuffed, the accounts went, U.S. Attorney Eric Holder would probably request a felony indictment of Rostenkowski by Memorial...
...problem is in any case, regardless of whether it's a misdemeanor or a felony, costs are incurred," said Harvard Police Lt. John F. Rooney. "We're not in the business of weighing the costs. Our only job is to make sure justice is done...
Thus the bill that Maryland is considering goes a little too far. The bill would make it a misdemeanor, punishable by a $500 fine or 60 days of imprisonment, to take "one or more newspapers with the intent to destroy the newspapers or prevent other individuals from reading the newspapers...
...item "Hurts So Good" ((CHRONICLES, March 21)) contained an inaccurate reference to former Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams. He pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress. He was not convicted of Iran-contra-related perjury...