Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most folks called Chandler then, and practically everyone does still, gave up a perfectly comfortable Senate seat because he imagined the work might be more restful than politics. "As Governor of Kentucky," says Chandler, 85, "I signed 36 death warrants. Two of them were hanged for rape in the courthouse yard." But as he was soon to learn-and as Ford Frick, Spike Eckert and Bowie Kuhn all discovered in turn-the commissioner's job is not unlike presiding at such an occasion while being the object of the exercise at the same time...
...Bedford police officer yesterday testified that the victim of an alleged gang rape took him to Big Dan's Bar on the night of the attack last March, but failed to point out two of the six men now being tried for the rape...
...victim has filed a $10 million law-suit against the bar's owners, but the owners do not have the assets to cover that penalty, according to Charnas. However, the suit will not be dropped until the rape trial is concluded...
...outcome of this case will affect the way rape cases are tried in the future," said Elizabeth L. Bennett, a counselor at New Bedford's Rape Crisis Project. The cape center was started last August in response to the incident...
...town the size of New Bedford 100,000 residents a rape probably is committed every other day. Bennett said, adding that she feels the Big Dan's incident has made New Bedford residents much more sensitive about rape...