Word: rape
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response hosts a Harvard production of The Vagina Monologues. Expect classics like “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could” and “My Vagina was my Village”. Proceeds will be donated to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, V-Day New Orleans Fund, and V-Day International Fund...
...reversal of a former Harvard Dental School student’s rape conviction was upheld by the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court on Friday, according to the Associated Press. Martin Urban, who was charged with the rape of another dental student in 2004, successfully appealed his case in 2006 in part because the presiding judge had not given the jury a clear explanation about the standards used to determine whether an individual is too intoxicated to consent to sex. The court, in supporting the State Appeals Court’s decision to overturn Urban’s conviction, agreed that...
...Many criminals who commit violent acts, including rape and murder, receive shorter sentences, as the appellate judge in Bernie's case pointed out. In my view, Congress should take another look at the sentencing guidelines to be sure that they are meeting congressional intent...
...everyone is a happy with Calderon's military-style approach to the drug problem. Mexican Human Rights Commissioner Jose Luis Soberanes told Congress this week that his office had collected evidence of widespread torture, rape and murder by police and soldiers in the course of missions against drug gangs. In one case, 19 soldiers face a court martial for shooting dead two women and three children in June at a roadblock in Sinaloa state. In another case, soldiers are accused of detaining and raping four girls in the mountainous state of Michoacan...
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, one of the most talked about documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival and the first to sell here this year, unfolds like a noir thriller about the director's notorious 1977 statutory rape case. But the shadowy villain in this film isn't Polanski - it's the judge who presided over his case, Laurence Rittenband. Through dozens of interviews and deft use of archival footage, director Marina Zenovich untangles the dense web of legal issues that surround the Chinatown director's sensational story and exile to France...