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A former Extension School student, sentenced in December to five years in prison for stealing $50,000 worth of gems from a Harvard museum, received another five-year term Friday for violating a previous parole agreement.
James A. Hogue, who defrauded Princeton University out of $21,000 in financial aid money by posing as an undergraduate, violated his parole agreement by moving to Somerville in 1992, a New Jersey judge ruled.
Mercer County, N.J. Superior Court JudgePaulette Sapp-Peterson said Friday that Hogue hadnot received permission to leave the state whileon parole for defrauding Princeton. The judge saidHogue's criminal history evidences a cavalierdisregard for the law.
During last week's legal proceedings, Hogue'slawyer, Robert Obler, argued unsuccessfully thathis client had sent a letter to his parole officeseeking permission to move to Massachusetts. Butthe judge said Hogue had already left New Jerseyby the time the letter was sent. Hogue has 45 daysto appeal the sentence.
Three days after Wei Jingsheng, China's leading dissident, completed his parole term, police detained him as he was returning to Beijing from nearby Tianjin. Since his release from prison last September, after serving all but six months of his 15-year sentence for his advocacy of democracy and human...