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TAMPA — A former teacher accused of having a relationship with a female student will be able to get a fair trial without limits placed on what details of the case will be released, a judge ruled last week, according to ABC Action News. An attorney for Jaymee Wallace, 28, had asked the Hillsborough County judge to keep some details of the case from becoming public when the trial begins in March. Wallace was arrested in October and charged with lewd and lascivious battery; police allege the former high school teacher had sex more than 50 times with a female student who was 15 at the time. In denying the defense's request, the judge said none of the information to be presented will be inflammatory to a jury. "We should be able to defend Ms. Wallace in the media. … If that's now where it's going to be tried, if that's where it's going to be scrutinized, then we should be able to fight back," her attorney, Joe Bodiford, told reporters.
MIAMI — Four people were arrested in Miami on Dec. 1 after a joint state and federal investigation into a scheme in which doctors allegedly wrote phony Medicaid prescriptions for expensive AIDS medications that were later sold on the black market. Federal marshals arrested Onelio S. Baez, 65, and Juan Carlos Mateo, 44. Baez is accused of constructing, funding and directing the fraudulent operation. Mateo allegedly recruited Medicaid patients to participate in the scheme by paying them kickbacks and bribes to obtain their personal information, the federal indictment says. Two Miami doctors, Luis Jacinto Marti, 73, and Jorge Arnaldo Valido, 48, were also arrested for allegedly writing prescriptions for intravenous AIDS drugs known as immune globulins. Lawyers for both of the doctors said their clients deny participating in any wrongdoing.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Prosecutors last week said they will not seek the death penalty against two men accused of killing a gay man in Montrose, Colo., the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported. The pair, Jason Fiske, 25, and Adam Hernandez, 21, still may face hate-crime charges.
PHILADELPHIA - A local gay rights activists is charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest after a confrontation with a police officer near Phoenixville, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Jason Robbins, 26, was arrested after an incident involving an East Pikeland Township officer who was investigating a reported disturbance. The charges come after the latest confrontation between Robbins' organization, Philadelphia Anti-Racist Action, and Repent America, an anti-gay evangelical Christian group. Robbins sat in his car as six other protesters picketed the home of a Repent America member. Police say Robbins' group was using foul language and causing a disturbance. The protesters allege that Officer Richard L. Fagley Sr. pulled Robbins from his car and threw him against the ground for no reason, the Inquirer reported.
VARNA, Bulgaria — Four players are snarled in a gay sex scandal that has shocked members of an amateur soccer club, according to media reports. The four were expelled from the Max organization after they were caught fondling each other's testicles in a group shower after losing a match to another team. Coach Georgi Dimov confirmed the incident and the expulsion of the players, who were kicked out for damaging the club's reputation, news outlets reported. Dimov said the team's goalkeeper also solicited him for sex, which he declined.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Rejecting the defendant's claim of self-defense, a jury last week convicted a Yonkers woman of first-degree manslaughter after she fatally shot her longtime partner last Christmas Eve. Helen Chumbley admitted killing Barbara Shollar during an argument on Dec. 24, 2004, but alleged that she feared for her life and was a victim of battered women's syndrome. Chumbley alleged that she suffered physical and mental abuse for years from Shollar. She said Shollar lunged at her the night of the shooting, and she thought Shollar was going to force her to kill herself after the victim told Chumbley to get their gun. The jury acquitted Chumbley of second-degree murder, a charge that alleged she intended to kill Shollar. But with the conviction of first-degree manslaughter, Chumbley faces 5 to 25 years in prison.
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