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...Sept. 1998, however, it was a different story. On Sept. 9, Elster pled guilty in Middlesex Superior Court, and details of the case were at last revealed. On that January day, Elster had struck the victim across the face and raped her. Her roommates had taken her to University Health Services after they found her crying in the bathroom. The victim—who by law has the right to stop prosecution at any time—decided not to take the case to court. Elster was sentenced to three years probation, during which time he was forced to stay...
...same situation that concurrently faced another student, D. Drew Douglas, class of 2000, of Mather House. Douglas had sexually assaulted an undergraduate the previous spring, pled guilty to indecent assault and battery and received probation for five years. Douglas, like Elster, was dismissed rather than expelled...
...suit doesn't specifically charge Smithfield with those horrors. But his lawyers claim that environmental lawbreaking is an "integral component of [Smithfield's] institutional culture." In 1997 a U.S. district court judge fined Smithfield $12.6 million for thousands of Clean Water Act violations; in another case, a manager pled guilty to illegally dumping toxic wastewater into the Pagan River; the state of Virginia also has a suit pending against the company alleging more than 22,000 discharge and pollution violations from...
...arraignment yesterday afternoon at Cambridge District Court, Leong refused counsel and pled not guilty to the charges against...