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...easily impeachable testimony of various drug-taking and drug-dealing associates of the defendant's, and a friend who fingered him for a $100,000 bounty offered by the National Enquirer (the friend led cops to a wooded area where Markhasev supposedly hid the gun; police indeed found a pistol, but one lacking any fingerprints). Sources say the relative weakness of the case was the primary reason the district attorney chose not to seek the death penalty. Still, few expect Markhasev to receive much sympathy from a jury in such a well-publicized case and with such a sympathetic victim...
...39th district, Blondie was notorious for a version of Russian roulette he used with those he arrested--evidence or no evidence. Colbert fit the bill. Blondie cocked the hammer on what he now says was an empty pistol. "If you don't tell us what we want to know, I'm going to blow your head off," he said. Colbert wouldn't budge. Even today, Blondie--who fears for his life in prison if his real name is disclosed--defends the tactic. "I viewed it as kind of a humane alternative," he says. "It was less hurtful than beating...
...Elsewhere on the NFL docket: Soon-to-be-fired Dallas Cowboy Barry Switzer pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor gun charge following his arrest last summer carrying a loaded pistol in his luggage at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. He was fined $3,500. And the Miami Dolphins have offered a contract to troubled ? and I mean troubled ? running back Lawrence Phillips. "There is a large upside," coach Jimmy Johnson said before meeting with Phillips Tuesday, mentioning the legally challenged Phillips will be entering a "highly disciplined program" with the Dolphins. It may have to involve manacles...
...brother who is a cop and another who is a priest. ("I don't know where they went wrong," he says.) A self-professed martial-arts expert (who pronounces karate kah-dah-tay), he once escaped from prison by carving a bar of soap into "the most perfect-looking pistol you've ever seen," and he is described by the FBI as a master of disguises. He once proclaimed, in his faintly Continental intonation, "The thing about art theft is the Robin Hood element in it." Not your common thug...
...chillly September evening, first-years fidgeted in their Science Center seats and watched Officer Kevin P. Bryant approach the podium, sporting a Glock .40 semiautomatic pistol, handcuffs and a nightstick hanging around his waist...