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...counts for rape of his young wife. (Utah recently raised the age of consent from 14 to 16 and it is illegal for a person of authority or trust to have sex with anyone under 18.) Gayle's client took a plea agreement, but still was punished with significant prison time, far greater than any he would have received for violating bigamy statutes...
...lower the bail. Bail was set by Judge Paul Mahony at $750. As part of her release agreement, Simpson must stay away from Logan Airport between now and her pre-trial hearing on Oct. 29, 2007, according to The Tech. Simpson could face as many as 6 months in prison for the disorderly conduct charge, and 5 years for the possession of a hoax device one. The scare was somewhat reminiscent of last January when the Boston Police Department closed roads and bridges in response to a series of illuminated signs promoting the “Aqua Teen Hunger Force?...
...from being filed . "Musharraf's opponents made an announcement that they would put the Election Commission offices under siege," explains Senator Nisar Memon, Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Defense. For that reason, they were detained. "They were going to turn the Election Committee offices into a virtual prison, stopping people from going in, and stopping government workers from doing their job. That is against the law. That hurts other people's democratic right to file a nomination for President, and the government cannot allow that to happen...
...Nuon Chea is the second Khmer Rouge leader slated to be brought before the tribunal, a special chamber in the Cambodian courts. Authorities in July charged Kaing Guek Eav - known as Duch - with crimes against humanity for his role as commander of a Khmer Rouge prison where an estimated 14,000 people were sent to be tortured and executed. In custody since 1999, Duch said in an interview eight years ago that he was "like a water boy" for Nuon Chea...
...severed heads." Ackroyd attributes the moody riverside settings of Charles Dickens' Bleak House or Great Expectations to the novelist's misery at being sent as a 12-year-old to work in a ramshackle, filthy blacking factory abutting the Thames while his father was locked up in a debtors' prison. Fact and fiction are inseparable in the city of both authors: Dickens may have seen the Thames as "essentially a river of tears and darkness," writes Ackroyd, but "you could aways be sure he knew in which direction the tide was moving." Those tides were vital to London becoming...