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...religious convictions may or may not have cooled other passions. San Diego County court records show that, several years ago, he was twice charged with soliciting a prostitute, once in August 1996 and again in April 1997, TIME has learned. In the first misdemeanor, he was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge on condition of entering an AIDS education program and paying $400 in fines and restitution, documents show. The second time, according to court records, Aulaqi pleaded guilty to soliciting a prostitute and was sentenced to three years' probation, fined $240 and ordered to perform 12 days...
...says A is mad: that he mistakenly believed his wife had died in an earthquake, and to humor him B pretended to be another woman, whom he then married. You're skipping this paragraph, but my pleasure in recalling this production must overrule your bored befuddlement. The disputants plead their respective cases: individually in Act One, then together in Act Two, then with the mysterious wife at the climax...
...main source." In fact, Kelly came out relatively unscathed from his testimony. The M.P.s directed their hostility at his bosses, and never pressed him very hard. No one ever asked him to describe his encounter with Gilligan from start to finish. Yet many of his answers plead memory lapse or were oddly vague. When asked directly if anything he said to Gilligan could have been construed as implicating Campbell, Kelly said: "I find it very difficult to think back to a conversation I had six weeks ago." One official who knew him is sure Kelly was still trying to serve...
...help comparing Martha Stewart's declarations of innocence to charges of obstruction of justice and securities fraud [BUSINESS, June 16] with the reports that she might have been willing to accept a plea bargain if she could be guaranteed no jail time. What was she going to plead guilty to if not a crime? This is not just public relations. Stocks rise and fall on Stewart's public utterances. Would her plea of guilty in return for no jail time have been a lie? TONY ACCETTA New York City...
Tanaka said he and most of the others arrested planned to plead not guilty to their charges...