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ACCORDING to testimony in
a Chicago kidnapping tial,

Richard Romero, 36, had
befriended a local 13-year-old
boy in an Internet sex chat and
had arranged to whisk him off
to Florida.

An acquaintance —_ of
Romero, self-described faith
healer Kim Wistey, said
Romero told him he was a
mutant who was genetically
engineered and programmed
by the federal government to
die at age 30 but that a benev-
olent alien race called the
Vagans had) proved that
; nextracting the energy from

pornogra could stop his
cells from rv y P
. Romers allegedly said that
if Wistey would put him up for
a while, he’d work on comput-
er databases to find a cure for
Wistey’s mother’s cancer.

Romero was also enthusias-
tic, said Wistey, about the
“Five-Cent Flan,” by which
the two men would get rich
tapping into the IRS find that
contains a nickel from each tax
return ever filed.

Said Wistey, after the prose
all 0 of
this: “I didn’s want to be
closed-minded.”

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A stripper who had filed a
lawsuit (Leonard vs. Kukar) in
Virginia, to recover for injuries
she suffered in a car accident at
first objected to the defen-
dant’s showing a videotape of
her performing after the injury,
believing the jury would think
she was malingering.

However, according to her
lawyer, James M. Lowe, the
tape backfired in her favor. The
post. injury performance was

asically standing and_wig-
gling, while her pre-injury
notoriety was based on limber-
ness in working around a pole.

The jury awarded her
$182,000, three times what

she requested, bit she may
have been aided by the fact that
six of the seven jurors were
men.

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Jertick Michael Snell violat-
ed the cardinal rule of sentenc-
ing in an Alabama court, after
Judge Lawson Little had given
him 20 years for cocaine pos-
session.

A few minutes later, as the
judge, on other business,
passed by Snell in a courthouse

jolding pen, Snell said in
explicit terms that the judge
should perform oral sex on
him, at which point Lire
ordered him back into the
courtroom and changed the
sentence to life in prison.

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Fresno, California ~- On
Feb. 14, defendant Alphonse
Lee Woods stood in Superior
Court with his lawyer to

answer charges of drug posses-
sion, and obstruction
of justice fore Judge Stephen

Since Woods had not yet
posted bail, he was dressed in
the traditional orange jail
jumpsuit and was handcuffed.

tanding beside him, argu-
ing for Woods’ release, was his
attorney, Frank Dornay, 44,

who was also handcuffed and
wearing, an orange jail jump-
suit. He had recently missed a
mandatory drug test as a con-
dition of probation on drug
charges.

A judge in London,
England, has ruled that nwo
social critics had libeled
McDonald’s restaurants in a
widely distributed brochure
and ordered them to pay the
company about $96,000.

McDonald’s took offense at
charges of cruelty to animals,
employment discrimination,
destruction of the rain forests,
low wages, and serving dictari-
ly dangerous products. To clear
its name, McDonald's endured
315 days of trial (the longest
wial in British history) over 30
months that reportedly cost
the firm about $10 million.
The activists’ combined annual
income is about $12,000.

Government religious offi-
cers in the Perak state of
Malaysia announced they were
investigating a report that
schoolgirls were offering men
the opportunity to caress their
cheeks for about 20 cents and
other parts of their faces for
slightly more moncy.

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