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Jurors debated for 16 hours. In the end, the testimony of a young woman who at 14 had been "placed" in an arranged marriage to her cousin by Warren Jeffs, 51, leader of a polygamist sect, secured Jeffs' conviction. He now faces life in prison as an accomplice to rape for directing the girl to submit to her husband, who was charged with rape the day after Jeffs was found guilty...
...Michael Vick this summer was just that. Columnists opined on the atrocity, evoking emotion by bringing up the impressionable youth. Talking heads on radio and TV chest-bumped and high-fived each other, delighting their audiences with thundering hyperbole and really old—but still funny—prison jokes. Even serious news outlets like CNN jumped into the fray. The bloodthirsty public watched, and loved...
...third adjective naturally followed the first two. Nonetheless, the movie stayed in theaters all summer and the show enjoys near universal popularity, as do other exported TV programs such as “Friends,” “Lost,” and “Prison Break.” French pop culture is, by and large, American.Which is a tough phenomenon to explain: Why isn’t French music big in France? Unfortunately, the cliché stereotypes don’t apply. It’s not like the French import foreign pop because they?...
...reflect on larger injustices that occur across the nation. The American justice system tends to impison black men at disproportionately high rates. Black people are six times more likely than white people to go to jail. Between 2002 and 2004, black youth constituted 58 percent of minors in adult prison...
Jeffs will now face from five years to life in prison on both counts. Ahead of him are additional charges of sex with a minor and acting as an accomplice to incest in Arizona, plus a federal charge of unlawful flight. The "polygamy summit" appears to have paid off for Utah authorities, and other polygamist communities are stepping back from child marriages, according to Paul Murphy, an assistant to Utah's Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. But the FLDS, with communities in Canada and Utah, plus compounds in Texas and South Dakota, has resisted change. What the response will...