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Community elders were at first appalled. Now they are grateful for the intervention. "The Haredim are shocked by these cases," says Noach Korman, a Haredi attorney in the rabbinical court that adjudicates family and religious law, and the director of a shelter for battered wives. "At first they said, 'These people are crazy, they don't belong to us.' But now I hear Haredi voices saying: 'We should examine ourselves and not close our eyes to why these things are happening.' "Says Naomi Ragen, an orthodox woman who is an author and advocate for gender equality: "These shocking things...
Obermann alerted the state prosecutor's office on May 14. Friedrich Apostel, the prosecuting attorney in Bonn, where Telekom has its headquarters, said prosecutors would determine in the coming week whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant opening a full-fledged investigation. "We first have to determine whether there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed," he said...
...month, this revealing documentary revisits the Polish director's L.A. hearing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. (Polanski fled to Europe and has lived there since.) Though Zenovich doesn't dispute the facts, the interviews with Douglas Dalton, Polanski's lawyer, and Roger Gunson, Assistant District Attorney (described in the film as being "37, a Mormon, and the only member of the D.A.'s office who didn't have sex with an underage girl") aptly pin the blame on showboating judge, Laurence J, Rittenband. The film is a fascinating portrait of a artist whose life was stranger...
...Jurors watched the video from a vast screen in the middle of the room. Reporters and spectators watched on a separate television. And, it appeared, Kelly watched from a flat-screen monitor connected to his defense attorney's table. In the video's opening scene, a man in red pants, a baggy white t-shirt and a diamond stud in his left ear - similar to Kelly's - sits in a wood-paneled room that resembles a space that detectives photographed in the home Kelly once owned in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Then, the man sticks his penis into...
...friends to establish that she was, in fact, in the video and was a minor at the time. Prosecutors are also expected to call to the stand a woman who claims to have engaged in threesomes with Kelly and the female from the video. So far, Kelly's attorneys have presented a powerful argument by questioning the veracity of the tape - which was dubbed widely and sold in DVD form on street corners in major cities across the country. Defense attorneys have also challenged the competence of the case's detectives - questioning, for instance, why they didn't bother...