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After Plea Hearing, Madoff Could Go Directly to Jail By DIANA B. HENRIQUES When Bernard L. Madoff arrives in federal court on Thursday to plead guilty to operating a vast 20-year Ponzi scheme, there is a strong chance that he will not return home. Under a $10 million bail agreement, Mr. Madoff has been confined to his penthouse apartment since his arrest on Dec. 11. As he was presumed innocent, the government had to persuade the court that he should not be allowed bail — something prosecutors failed to do at a bail revocation hearing in January. But once Mr....

A five-year manhunt for Eric Rudolph ended in 2003, when someone recognized him while he was foraging for food behind a grocery store in Murphy, North Carolina. Scavenging in a trash dumpster and hiding as a lone survivalist in the mountains of western Carolina are quite revealing. Rudolph had no support, aid or comfort within the pro-life community. Rudolph is a cowardly killer disguised as a defender of life. Rudolph, 38, pleaded guilty April 13 to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing and two other explosions, after earlier admitting to orchestrating a 1998 abortion clinic bombing in Alabama. The bombings killed...