Critics of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky, who oversaw the controversial Stanford rape case, are calling into question the judge’s harsher sentencing on a similar sexual assault case. Raul Ramirez, a 32-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, was convicted of sexually assaulting his female roommate and will be sentenced to three years in state prison as part of a plea agreement signed in March, according to documents obtained by The Guardian. Also Read: Stanford Rape Judge Removed From New Sex Assault Trial Although Ramirez’s ruling still needs to be finalized by Persky, it comes as a sharp contrast from the.
- 6/27/2016
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Wrap
La mort en ce jardin / Death in the Garden (1956) Direction: Luis Buñuel Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza, and Raymond Queneau; dialogue by Queneau and Gabriel Arout; from a novel by José-André Lacour Cast: Georges Marchal, Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli, Tito Junco, Michèle Girardon, Raul Ramirez Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal Death in the Garden I hadn’t even heard of Death in the Garden before its recent DVD release on the Microcinema label. It ranks as among the least-known of Luis Buñuel’s films, probably because it’s the least obviously Buñuelian. Aside from some fairly incidental bits of surrealist imagery – a freshly killed snake devoured by ants; Simone Signoret dressed in an evening gown and diamonds in the [...]...
- 4/7/2010
- by Dan Erdman
- Alt Film Guide
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