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In January the Toronto Sun published photos from the office of surgeon William G. Middleton showing his nurse straddling an unconscious female patient. The patient subsequently filed a complaint against the doctor. On the same day in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dentist Donald C. Johnson pleaded guilty to sexually molesting several young patients after lewd Polaroid photos of apparently anesthetized girls were discovered in his office. And in December a woman in Waynesboro, Virginia, sought damages of $350,000 from physician Dale A. Stinespring for allegedly tricking her into posing topless for photographs under the guise of producing evidence for her wrongful-injury lawsuit.
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According to a September San Francisco Chronicle report, New Orleans T-shirt printer Ricky Lewis, 42, says 95 percent of his business comes from people who want to commemorate men slain in gang violence by putting the victims’ faces on shirts. The city has such a high homicide rate, Lewis says, that he’s memorialized several former customers.
In January three young men broke into a house in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with a shotgun and beat a man they say owed them money. They left after firing a shot to scare the man, but on their way out the gun accidentally discharged again, hitting one of the men in the buttocks. All were arrested when a police officer saw the wounded man later on the street. Three days later in Newark, New Jersey, Andre Gordon, 27, was arrested when his gun accidentally discharged after he’d pistol-whipped a 25-year-old man, firing a bullet through his own arm and into his leg.
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