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In January a court in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima awarded about $5,000 in damages to 61-year-old Sachio Kawabata for mental anguish suffered when police tried to make him confess to violating election laws. The judge found that interrogators had abused their powers when they wrote down the names of Kawabata’s relatives and supposed messages from them (e.g., “Hurry up and become an honest granddad”), then grabbed his ankles and forced him to step on the paper.
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Lolita Bullock, the prime suspect in a bank robbery ten days earlier, showed up at the sheriff’s office in Jacksonville, North Carolina, in May and turned herself in; she then requested that the friend who accompanied her receive the $2,500 reward offered by a local Crime Stoppers group for information leading to her arrest.
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