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Entertainment & Sports

Feb. 5, 2000

Pen Wedding Caps Surreal Plot Exploits

DICTA Taking sweet, 9-year-old Darcie away from her paranoid mom was a legal no-brainer on this week's 'Judging Amy.' Judging Amy

By Corky Pickering
        Amid all the action this week were two serious legal issues that should have been more fully developed. Judge Amy accepted a plea of guilty to 3rd degree assault from a juvenile who had been characterized as "Jack the Ripper" in another arraignment charging him with rape. Based upon his prior record, she hit him with the maximum period of confinement, though accor...

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