preLaw - Back to School 2007 - (Page 8) news STUDENTS IN THE ■ Joseph Cho, a second-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania, was arrested in January after he allegedly fired about 15 shots into the door of his downstairs neighbors’ apartment. Cho was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, burglary and other related charges, but has been declared incompetent to stand trial. According to the Philadelphia Police, Cho attempted to enter the apartment of his neighbors, two male Drexel University students, because he believed they were spying on him. Controversy ■ A Brooklyn law student who shed her briefs for a Playboy TV series may have to kiss off her career after the video made its way into e-mail in-boxes all over the city. Adriana Dominguez, a 3L at Brooklyn Law School, happily striped naked for the 45-second clip spread called “Rock Star and the Lawyer.” “I wanted to do something a little crazy before I graduate and do become a lawyer… do something kind of out of character,” the 24-year-old told the New York Daily News. “Lawyers can be boring.” ■ Shouting “shame” and “resign,” student protesters heckled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he posed for photographs with old classmates in late April at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. Gonzales was in Cambridge to deliver a lunchtime speech at his 25-year reunion with classmates. But a small group of protesters — including a second-year law student who wore a black hood and an orange jumpsuit — shouted for him to resign. Arrested ■ A law student accused of drunken driving April 26 may have been surprised to find out who she rear-ended — St. Paul, Minn., Mayor Chris Coleman’s city car. “She still doesn’t know who she hit yet,” said a police officer on scene two hours after the incident. “We’ve been telling her and telling her.” Abbie Raymond, a student at William Mitchell College of Law, was arrested on suspicion of third-degree driving while impaired after her blood-alcohol content registered at 0.26 percent, police said. The legal limit in Minnesota is 0.08 percent. 8 ■ A former campaign worker for U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) was indicted in May, a week before graduating from law school, on two counts of election fraud. Michael Aaron Lay, a graduate from the University of Tennessee Law School, was released on $50,000 unsecured bond by the Gaston County (N.C.) Sheriff ’s Office in time for graduation ceremonies. A grand jury indicted Lay because of questions about whether he had legal residence in North Carolina when he registered to vote and cast a ballot in his boss’ primary election. Died ■ Rev. Jerry Falwell, the founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., died in May at the age of 73 in his campus office. His last educational accomplishment was to create the Liberty University School of Law, which opened three years ago. preLaw www.preLawInsider.com http://www.preLawInsider.com
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