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Unraveling the fabric of justice in the Brian Banks case
This is a corrected version of the original post; see the note below. Brian Banks spent more than five years in prison for a rape and kidnapping that, as the courts now find, he did not commit; the repercussions of how the case sorts itself out in the...
Tags: Prisons, Justice System, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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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: National Football League, Prisons, Justice System, Sports, Judges
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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: Prisons, Justice System, Sports, Judges, College Sports
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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: Prisons, Politics, Justice System, Immigration, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Prisons, Chemicals, Human Body, Health, Witnesses
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Ex-New York policeman gets 75 years in sexual assault of teacher
NEW YORK -- A former New York City police officer convicted of assaulting a young teacher as she waited for a ride to school was sentenced Monday to 75 years to life in prison. The lack of a rape conviction in the case had drawn criticism from some...
Tags: Justice System, Health and Safety at School, Health, Assault, Witnesses
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'Game of Thrones' recap: Heads will roll
Show TrackerOn this week's episode of Game of Thrones, "The Old Gods and the New," we get a closer look at the effect Ned Stark's life and death have had on Theon and Jon.... -
Adam Croote: Missing-children poster child is sentenced for rape
A man who was once a poster child for missing children has been sentenced to 25 years to life prison for raping a 10-year-old girl he was baby-sitting in upstate New York. Adam Croote, 23, was sentenced Friday in Albany, N.Y., after pleading guilty in...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Bill Clinton, Sexual Assault, White House, Punishment
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Montana sex assaults: Justice Department launches civil rights inquiry
The U.S. Justice Department’s decision to open a civil rights investigation into the handling of sexual assault cases in Missoula, Mont., follows months of efforts by city officials to deal with escalating complaints about rapes at the University of...
Tags: Politics, Public Officials, Sports, Teaching and Learning, Civil Rights
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Alleged teen rape victim released from custody, but with GPS monitor
L.A. NOWA 17-year-old alleged rape victim who was placed into juvenile hall to ensure she would testify, was released from custody Monday as prosecutors continue preparing for the case in Sacramento.... -
Sex offender with 4 convictions charged in O.C. rape case
L.A. NOWA registered sex offender with four prior convictions was charged with raping a developmentally disabled woman in an Anaheim motel room, authorities said Tuesday afternoon.... -
A South African rape, captured on video, exposes an epidemic
World NowA typical South African rape - captured on cell phone video: South African radio and social media lit up with outrage after a cell phone video showed the gang rape of a 17 year old girl by a group of adolescents. They offered her 25 cents to keep silent...
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