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Prosecution of false accuser in rape case seen as difficult
A day after a former high school football star had his rape conviction dismissed, attention focused on the woman who recanted the sexual assault claim she made 10 years ago.
Wanetta Gibson was a high school sophomore when she accused Brian Banks of...Tags: Court Preliminary, Football, Health, Insurance, Facebook
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A 10-year nightmare over rape conviction is over
Brian Banks logged onto Facebook last year, and a new friend request startled him. It was the woman who, nearly a decade ago, accused him of rape when they were both students at Long Beach Poly High School. Banks had served five years in prison for...
Tags: Court Preliminary, Football, Facebook, Crime, Law and Justice, University of California, Los Angeles
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Preventing prison rape
Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003 hoping to contain a national epidemic. Nearly a decade later, however, the problem apparently persists. The Department of Justice this month finally got around to releasing a 2008 survey in which 1...
Tags: Migration, Immigration, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Prison and parole solutions will require real political courage
In 1982, Warlocks motorcycle gang tough guy Robert "Mudman" Simon was convicted of killing a teenage girl in Jim Thorpe for refusing to consent to gang rape by his fellow gang members, and off he went to state prison, where, if there had been any justice,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Justice System, Sex Crimes, Judges
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Hack taxi driver sentenced for rape
Samuel Renard Queen, of the 3500 block of Elmley Ave. in Baltimore, was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for rape, kidnapping and related offenses this week for assaulting a woman at knifepoint in his unlicensed taxicab, the Baltimore state's...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Belair Road, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Rape and prison
The prospect of spending years behind bars in a tiny cell is sufficiently chilling to deter most people from ever committing a crime. Those who willfully break the law anyway and get caught have no one to blame but themselves when a judge sentences them...
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault, U.S. Department of Justice, Prisons
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AG praises lawmakers' work on crime issues
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says legislators took important steps this year to protect children from sex offenders. The Republican attorney general says the GOP-controlled Legislature approved a package of...
Tags: Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Prosecution, Justice System
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Sexual abuse trial moves forward
DAILY AMERICAN REPORTERFour women and eight men listened intently from the jury box to testimony in day No. 1 of a trial of a former Conemaugh Township man arrested on 12 counts of sexual abuse charges. Michael Ty Parrish, 43, now of Summerhill, is accused of sexually...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Sexual Misconduct, Assault, Trials, Sexual Assault
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Strauss-Kahn may face gang rape allegations
CNNFrench prosecutors have widened an investigation into former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged participation in a prostitution ring. Authorities said Monday that Lille police will open a preliminary inquiry into acts that...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Crime, Law and Justice, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, International Monetary Fund
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn May Face Gang Rape Allegations
CNNPARIS -- French prosecutors have widened an investigation into former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged participation in a prostitution ring. Authorities said Monday that Lille police will open a preliminary inquiry...Tags: Air France-KLM, DNA, Manhattan (New York City), Paris (France), International Monetary Fund
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Registry tallies over 2,000 wrongful convictions since 1989
WASHINGTON — More than 2,000 people have been freed from prison since 1989 after they were found to have been wrongly convicted of serious crimes, according to a new National Registry of Exonerations compiled by University of Michigan Law School and...Tags: DNA, Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Biotechnology Industry, Criminals
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Study finds nearly 1 in 10 state prisoners is victim of sexual abuse
KIAHIt sucks to be a convict. A new study by the Justice Department says that 1 out of 10 inmates are sexually abused while they’re locked up... a rate that’s doubled over the last four years. This isn’t inmate on inmate rape... 7 out of...Tags: Health, Injuries and Wounds, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Broken Bones
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