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The defendant, Lochner, was prosecuted under a provision of the statute that made it a misdemeanor to employ someone in excess of the limit.
The LAT 's "Column One" details a corollary of Russia's constitutional provision that no member of its parliament can be prosecuted for a crime while in office: One hundred and five of this year's candidates are convicts and four others are wanted by police.
The district attorney plans to charge him with six counts of first-degree assault, and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says "he should be prosecuted for attempted murder."
He points out that Weld favors legalizing marijuana for "medical purposes" (which conservatives place on the slippery slope toward complete legalization), favors providing addicts with clean needles (to prevent the spread of AIDS), and that he prosecuted few drug cases as a U.S. attorney.
So if Clinton can show he wouldn't have been prosecuted by a regular prosecutor, he'll get the money.