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  • Pair get 8 years for serving beer at party

    02/12/2003 11:35:45 PM PST · by ambrose · 243 replies · 406+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 2-12-03 | Washington Times
    <p>CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) — A judge sentenced a husband and wife to eight years in jail Monday for supplying alcohol to teenagers at a birthday party for their son.</p> <p>Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 90 days for Elisa Kenty Robinson and George Fisher Robinson of Earlysville. They pleaded guilty to 16 misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors.</p>
  • JANET DALEY: Try telling a New Yorker burglary doesn't matter

    01/15/2003 1:17:36 AM PST · by MadIvan · 5 replies · 202+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | January 15, 2003 | Janet Daley
    The Lord Chief Justice has clarified his controversial guidelines on burglary sentencing. That's what it says here, anyway, in the official statement. What exactly does this clarification make clear? Given the rumpus produced by his initial judgment - that first- or even second-time burglars should not be sent to prison - you might have expected Lord Woolf to be saying, "No, no - you got it all wrong. My remarks were misrepresented. I was quoted out of context." Some hokum or other that really meant, whoops, that was a gigantic mistake - I'll take it back now. Some of you...