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Lang was convicted in January 1972 by a jury and sentenced to 14–25 years in prison. [1] In both cases Lang was represented by the deaf attorney Lowell J. Myers. [3] The verdict was overturned in 1975 by an appellate court, ruling that Lang had not been able to adequately defend himself.
Jul. 15—The Clark County Jail will pay a $25,000 settlement to a deaf woman who sued for discrimination after she was not given services or auxiliary aids, in accordance with the Americans with ...
McAlpin spent 24 days in jail before making bond. He's pleaded not guilty. The officers didn't learn he was deaf until after the arrest and, as of Tuesday, remain on the job.
Local law enforcement agencies, including the Milwaukee Police Department, the St. Francis police, and the Milwaukee County District Attorney, were informed of the abuse in 1974 by adult graduates of the St. John School for the Deaf, but expressed doubts about the credibility of the allegations and the statute of limitations, and did not proceed.
In July 2012, the Gwangju District Court sentenced the 63-year-old former administrator of Gwangju Inhwa School to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old student in April 2005. He was also charged with physically abusing another 17-year-old student who had witnessed the crime (the victims reportedly attempted to kill ...
A bar manager, four deaf friends and a teenage bowler are among the 18 victims who were formally identified by police as victims of the Maine mass shooting. Some who died reportedly put themselves ...
Dummy is a 1979 American made-for-television docudrama film starring LeVar Burton and Paul Sorvino. [1] Based on Ernest Tidyman's nonfiction book of the same name, the film dramatizes the life of Donald Lang (portrayed by Burton), an African–American deaf man who was acquitted of the murders of two prostitutes in Chicago, Illinois.
Gwangju Inhwa School (Korean: 광주인화학교) was a school for hearing-impaired students founded in 1961 and located in Gwangju, South Korea.The school made national headlines after its decades-long record of sexually abusing students was uncovered in 2005.