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Why would cyberterrorists want to assault America's 911 system, inquired New York Times reporter Tim Weiner.
In the documentary, Tom's girlfriend says someone told her Tom was a "faggot," and a lawyer asks Tom: "After this sexual assault ...
The best detail I've encountered is from the Los Angeles Times , which traced a crucial piece of Furrow's AR-15 assault rifle to Bushmaster Firearms in Maine.
I would make it a distinct crime that would have to be charged (and proved) separately from charges of murder, assault, etc.
Horton, you may recall, is a black man who, while doing prison time in Massachusetts for murder, escaped from a weekend furlough and committed a particularly brutal assault and rape.