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...year-old convicted rapist arrested for trespassing in Mather House last month was sentenced to two years in a local house of corrections after he essentially pled guilty to all charges against him in Middlesex District Court on Thursday. Ronald R. Vick, of Brighton, Mass., was arrested on the third floor of the Mather lowrise on Saturday, Oct. 15, after several Mather residents alerted the police of a suspicious individual wandering around the House. Police charged him with trespassing, breaking and entering in the daytime with the intent to commit theft, and failing to register as a sex offender...
...year-old convicted rapist was arrested in Mather House on Saturday after several residents alerted the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) of a suspicious individual wandering around the house. According to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano, at 5:06 p.m. on Saturday, officers arrested Ronald R. Vick of Brighton, Mass., on the third floor of the Mather lowrise after a check of his record revealed three outstanding warrants against him. Police charged him with trespassing and breaking and entering in the daytime with the intent of theft, which is a felony. HUPD would not comment on the nature...
...country recorded incredulity at a seemingly classic case of injustice. Tens of thousands of Illinois citizens signed protest petitions and inundated Governor James Thompson's office with phone calls, telegrams and letters. How, everyone wondered, could Cook County Judge Richard Samuels have done it? The judge, after allowing Convicted Rapist Gary Dotson a few days of freedom on bail, had then sent him back to prison, despite the fact that his supposed victim, Cathleen Crowell Webb, had retracted her accusation. But while most members of the legal community shared the public discomfort with the outcome of Dotson's case, they...
...latch onto this story not just because it's a riveting end to a high-stakes manhunt. We find ourselves transfixed and uplifted by the sordid ordinariness of it all. He was an alleged rapist and murderer. She was tied up in a bathtub, clinging to the wreckage of a life that was barely afloat. One was a monster, the other a woman unable to care for her 5-year-old, looking for cigarettes in the dark. And out of that came something, well, beautiful. He saw his purpose: to serve God in prison, to turn his life around, even...
...Britain, where the first ever mass DNA sweep took place in 1987 (indirectly leading to the conviction of a rapist and murderer who tried to escape detection by asking a co-worker to take the DNA test for him), the results have been more impressive--and the public far less resistant. The Forensic Science Service of England and Wales has carried out 292 DNA dragnets since it began counting in 1995. So far, 61--about 20% of all sweeps--have produced significant matches, helping push an investigation toward a suspect and, on numerous occasions, a conviction. In 1998 Str??cklingen...