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Archive for April, 2007



Nancy Grace gets ripped by Jon Stewart

Friday 27 April 2007 @ 7:23 am

Nancy Grace gets ripped by Jon Stewart


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Teacher pleads guilty in sex case

Thursday 26 April 2007 @ 7:28 am

A former Brighton Charter High School teacher faces a 45-day jail term and five years of supervised probation after pleading guilty Tuesday to charges she had sexual contact with a 17-year-old student on a class trip last fall. Carrie McCandless, who was fired from the school where her husband is principal, decided to accept an agreement with prosecutors because the risk of going to trial on charges of sexual assault on a child was too great, said her attorney, M. Trent Trani.


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Straight Talk: Duke Case Shows Justice System’s Flaws

Wednesday 25 April 2007 @ 7:33 am

To their great credit, the Duke lacrosse players who were exonerated of rape charges by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper earlier this month understood that for all the hell they’ve gone through the past year, what happened to them isn’t uncommon.


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Stossel on Alec Baldwin

Tuesday 24 April 2007 @ 5:07 pm

People have RIGHTLY condemned Alec Baldwin for the tirade he left on his daughter’s cell phone…


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Germany: Radical Left-Wing Feminist Given Suspended Jail Term

Tuesday 24 April 2007 @ 1:17 pm

A member of a German left-wing feminist guerrilla group was handed a suspended two-year prison sentence on Monday for her role in two failed bombings 20 years ago.


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Private investigators hired in half of all divorce cases in Britain

Tuesday 24 April 2007 @ 7:06 am

Private investigators were hired during half the divorce proceedings in Britain last year as wives or husbands tried to establish whether the spouse was having an affair, a survey of leading law firms revealed today.


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DNA Exonerates Man Who Served 25 Years

Monday 23 April 2007 @ 4:26 pm

A man who spent 25 years in prison for rape was exonerated Monday as a judge threw out his convictions because DNA evidence showed he couldn’t have committed the attack. An advocacy group said it was the 200th such case.


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Political donations often pave way to seat on the bench

Monday 23 April 2007 @ 11:54 am

More than 80 percent of judges appointed to the bench in North Jersey in recent years have donated thousands of dollars to senators who held the fate of their candidacies, records show.


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About Half of Rape Allegations are False, Say Prosecutors and Researchers

Monday 23 April 2007 @ 8:53 am

Linda Fairstein, former head of the New York County District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit, noted, “There are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about half simply did not happen. … It’s my job to bring justice to the man who has been falsely accused by a woman who has a grudge against him, just as it’s my job to prosecute the real thing.”


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A growth industry: Male-female “income gap”

Monday 23 April 2007 @ 8:51 am

A report to be released today by the American Association of University Women sheds light on what is holding back many woman graduates and what they can do to catch up.


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