Rape Conviction Overturned When Supposed Victim Recanted — What About the Civil Damages Award?

Source: The Volokh Conspiracy

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has reversed the 2002 rape and kidnapping conviction of former Long Beach Poly football standout Brian Banks. Banks, now 26, was wrongly convicted of the charges based on the testimony of Wanetta G ...
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How to Sell a Gay Sex Story to the National Enquirer [Video]

Source: Gawker

Eight new gay groping claims, two scrotum assaults, one anus attack later, John Travolta's masseur-gate is in full swing—not that you'd know if you only got your news from The New York Times, which has yet to file ...
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How The National Enquirer Vets Gay Sex Stories

Source: mediabistro.com

Obviously intrigued by the glut of John Travolta gay-masseuse-sex stories coming out in the tabloids as of late, Gawker’s Maureen O’Connor decided to look into the National Enquirer‘s fact-checking processes. Though she spoke to a few staffers at the ...
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