May 23, 2007

Secretary gets 8 years for stealing Coke secrets

What a headline. This case is strange for so many reasons.
From USA Today :

ATLANTA — A former Coca-Cola (KO) secretary convicted of conspiring to steal trade secrets from the world’s largest beverage maker was sentenced Wednesday to 8 years in federal prison.
Joya Williams, 42, faced up to 10 years on the single conspiracy charge in [...]

May 23, 2007

La. child rapist’s death sentence upheld

From Yahoo News:
Louisiana’s Supreme Court ruled that a man may be executed for raping an 8-year-old girl, and lawyers say his case may become the test for whether the nation’s highest court upholds the death penalty for someone who rapes a child.
Both sides say the sentence for Patrick Kennedy, 42, could expand a 1977 U.S. [...]