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...Middlesex County district judge yesterday ordered Jose Torres, 35, to be held on $5,000 bail for his alleged theft of $750,000 worth of rare books and bookplates from the Harvard University libraries...
Torres was indicted last month by a grand jury on 16 charges of theft and malicious destruction of property...
...tell you the truth, the reason we didn't lock the door is that this is the first time I've really felt a fear of theft," Dyer said...
Manjapra and Dyer both ruled out the possibility that the theft was merely a prank played by other students...
...jury trial was, in Jennifer's view, a "massacre." "It was like a movie," she says. "They butchered him on the stand." Found guilty of theft--despite the fact that both the ideas and notebooks were his--Taborsky was given a year's suspended sentence, a year under house arrest and 15 years' probation. And, the judge ordained, he was forbidden to use or profit from his notes or his invention...