City Attorney's Office to go after johns
The Seattle Times (blog)
Seattle Community Court allows non-violent offenders to avoid criminal sentencing if they agree to participate in programs aimed at addressing the root causes of their crime, including chemical dependency, education, unemployment and homelessness. …

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Convicted offender: Wouldn't have pleaded if he knew he could be on probation …
Mason City Globe Gazette
Sauers appeared before Judge Bryan McKinley on Thursday for a post-conviction relief hearing. According to court documents, Sauers contends the court was without jurisdiction to impose the sentence, the sentence exceeds the maximum authorized by law …

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City Hall's Unlikely Model for Fighting Crime
Seattle Weekly (blog)
4 2012 at 7:00 AM ?Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith says the city has a model for cleaning up crime along downtown's Third Avenue. That model, he told The Seattle Times a few days ago, is Belltown. Belltown? Really? We're talking about a neighborhood so …

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12 stories coming in 2012
Quad City Times
Van Houtte's attorneys also are arguing for post-conviction relief, because he was mis-admonished at the time of sentencing. He was instructed that he would serve two years parole upon release from the Illinois Department of Corrections. …

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In Gotham City Impostors, art sort of imitates life (preview)
San Jose Mercury News (blog)
For those who don't follow current events or weird news, he's part of a crime-prevention patrol group that's based in Seattle, the same city where Monolith Productions also happens to be based. Jones — his real name is Ben Fodor — dresses up like a …

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Ex-sheriff's meth-for-gay-sex scandal; parents complain about Manhunt billboard
Windy City Times
Rick's attorney, Landon Ascheman, said he will appeal the conviction on various grounds, calling the significance of the case "huge." Rick was also sentenced to six months in the Hennepin County Workhouse. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force …

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Sheriff names suspect in courthouse suspicious powder incident
Coal City Courant
The two charges carry a combined sentence of up to 30 years confinement in the federal correctional system and, upon conviction, would not have an early release or parole option available. Article comments are not posted immediately to the Web site. …

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Congressmen join fight to free U. City man
St. Louis Beacon
In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, attorneys argued post-conviction DNA testing excluded Allen as the source of semen found at the crime scene, that police and lab reports contradict the state's serology evidence presented at trial, …

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Dan Savage glitter-bombed; Wyoming coach resigns following anti-gay scandal
Windy City Times
8 to the Michigan House of Representatives Committee on Education in opposition to Senate Bill 137, a press release stated. The bill allows for bullying statements so long as the statement is "of a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction of …

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High Tide: From Cricketer Convictions To City Charters
Wall Street Journal (blog)
More here and here. (Wall Street Journal, NY Times, NY Post) A 10th person has been charged in Australia connected to alleged bribery to alter results of English-language exams at Curtin University. The other nine have been convicted. …

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