38 — Wednesday, September 10, 1997 ~ North Shore News

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THE part-owner of an exclu-
sive restaurant across the
street from Augusta National
Golf Club shor himself ro
death on the second day of the
Masters because he was unable
to fill the ticket orders he had
taken for the cournament.
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As of carly July, the Tulsa
County prosecutor’s office
ras down to the fast five retri-
als, of 50 ordered in 1995 by
the state Court of Criminal
Appeals, because of now-
retired judge = Clifford
agplopper’ § Errors.
Hopper had __ routinely
instructed jurors that _defen-
dants are “presumed: not
guilty” instead of the correct
“presumed innocenr,” and
had failed to instruct juries
that the prosecution had to
prove “cach clement” of a
crime beyond a reasonable
doubt. All retrials so far have
resulted in convictions.

The news service Agence
France Presse reports that the
Lebanese Shiite Muslim orga-
“nization Hezbollah had begun
to embrace temporary “plea-

‘sure - marriages” because
poverty and a shortage of men
have. made: regular marriage
less desirable.

The ‘temporary marriage

“mutaa”), based in the
«Koran, is a contract for a spe-

’ cific. time (days to years)
- whereby an unmarried wornan
will take on the duties of wife

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According to Hezbollah, the

“imutaa” implies a religious-
based right to sexual pleasure
that is not permitted in many
other religions.

Newport, Tennessee ---
Franklin James, 23, was
charged with aggravated
assault recently afte: putting
Super Glue on his wife’s geni-
tals as punishment for an
alleged a affair

His wife obtained a judicial
protection order against him,

ut according to a news
report, the couple was living
together again and planning
to move to North Carolina.

Goeran Rudolfsson, recov-
ering from brain-tumor
surgery in a hospital in
Sweden, had been complain-

to second day

ing about nasal congestion
when he blew his nose and felt
a non-natural substance flap-
ping inside his nostril.

When he stepped his gen-
dle tugging, he was holding a
31-inch-long cloth apparently
left inside accidentally during
the June operation.

Port Washington,
Wisconsin — Kevin Gillson,
18. was convicted of sexual
assault of a child when his 15-
vear-old girlfriend becam:
Pregnant, despite the fact thar
the couple were attending par-
enting classes together and
that Gillson said they planned
to marry.

Upon conviction, Gillson
was barred from being around
any aonadutts, including the
mother of his child.

And Richard A. Duke Jr.,
22, was jailed for 30 days in
May in Maryland for having
sex with the 15-year-old girl
whom he had married in the
interim between arrest and
conviction. Nonetheless, a
judge ordered Duke, thus as a
sex offender, to stay away
from the girl, even though she
is his wife.
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A Scripps Howard News
Service reporter examined
Consumer Product Safety
Commission records recently
made public and found that
1,823 serious injuries caused
by “electronic air-fresheners”
had been reported to the

agency.

Though the records were
short on details, they Included
50 cases of amputation, 46
burns, 48 scaldings, 68 poi-
sunings. 56 “foreizn-body”
penetrations and 69 “drown-
ings.”

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The Michigan Court of
Appeals has ruled, on a techni-
ality, in faver of a prison
inmate who had rossed a cup
of liquified feces in the face of

2 guard.

Alphonso Gaines. 34,
already serving sme for
assault, could not be punished
further, said) the court,
because the prosecutors forgot
to prove that Gaines was “law-
fully” incarcerated in the Ionia
facility at the time he threw
the feces.

Prosecutor Gail Hirchcock

was incensed: “Did they think-

we were charging, semcone
who had sneaked into
prison?”

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Defense lawyer Phillip
Robertson, intending to make
a dramatic point in front of
the jury at his client's robbery
trial in Dallas, pointed the
9mm pistol used in the crime
toward the jury box, causing
two jurors to fling their arms
in front of their faces and oth-
ers to gasp audibly.

Though Robertson was
arguing that his client should
be sentenced only to proba-
tion, the horrified jury gave
him 13 years.

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