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Scofield said that the course was a nice alternative to the 80-person classes typical of the first year of law school, as reading groups contain only ten to twelve students and are not taken for a grade. David M. Zucker, a first-year from Natick, Mass., cited the advantage of being able “to know a professor on a personal level...
Jessica L. Flakne ’11, who rowed with Shaker on the crew team, said that Shaker is a “fun-loving person and very easy to be around...
...Voice’s evening concluded with a photograph of Watson, posted at 11:34 p.m., which intensified the anger of some concerned readers. “Emma is a person and does not deserve to be treated like a piece of meat,” one comment read...
...judge in the case, the now deceased Laurence J. Rittenband, meant to backtrack on a plea agreement and send him back to prison. Polanski's most recent attempts to have the case dismissed faltered because of a chicken-and-egg legal loop. Polanski refused to appear in court in person for fear of arrest. Even if judges were sympathetic, most subscribe to the Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine, which says a court will not adjudicate a claim made by a fugitive because if the fugitive loses, the court has no way to enforce its order...
...film's allegations, however, became central to Polanski's late 2008 appeal. In February 2009, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza, citing Polanski's fugitive status and refusal to appear in court in person, ruled against his request, but also indicated that he was open to arguments that misconduct had occurred. Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who was at the hearing, says Espinoza "was open to the argument that Polanski should not have to do any more jail time and that the court had been wrong to renege on the prior deal...