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...surprisingly, a language so silently eloquent teems with insulting gestures and yowls for legal relief. Indeed, the Italian penal code provides up to six months' imprisonment for "whosoever offends the honor or decorum of a person who is present," a stiffer rap if several persons are present, and up to three years' imprisonment for visual insults tossed at Italy's President, Prime Minister, Senators, armed forces or the Pope...
Claudine was charged with "an outrage to public decency," which carries a rap of up to two years in jail. The publicity-seeking beach concessionaire, who had paid Claudine $7 to bisect her bikini, was also haled into court. Their lawyer argued that the law defines the "outrage to decency" crime as "exhibiting one's sexual parts or making obscene or lascivious gestures." He called Claudine innocent on both counts. "Bare breasts are not an erotic but an alimentary symbol," he said. As for Claudine's pingpong, was it more "lascivious" than the nightly show at the Folies...
...evidence was so solid that Armstead's court-appointed lawyer later asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to dismiss the appeal that he had filed for his client. The court complied, but in the process it went out of its way to rap Judge Holtzoff for his "inexplicable" rudeness to Mr. Armstead...
McKeon, for his part, replied, also under oath, that Wagner's charge was tantamount to a lie, or at the very least was gross misinformation. He "absolutely, categorically and without any reservation" denied Wagner's accusation. Obviously, someone was open for a perjury rap...
...Bear off to city jail, and another two or three deputies to wring out his fingerprints. The prints were hardly necessary. He was nabbed last March for speeding and for packing a concealed pistol, for which he was fined $600 and given a suspended jail sentence. This time the rap is drunken driving, and if convicted at his trial on Jan. 29, he faces a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail...