Legal — Let's boil our legal system down to its gist: and Runaway Bride Jennifer Wilbanks faces six years in jail. First up, the Jackson trial…Chris Tucker finished up his — and the defense's testimony — calling the mother of Jackson's accuser "possessed." He also said after he helped the cancer-stricken accuser, he eventually grew suspicious of his family…. in Lawrenceville, Georgia, on two counts that could put her in prison for up to six years. Now, that’s a honeymoon. Gwinnett County Georgia's District Attorney says she now faces a misdemeanor — making a false police report... and a felony — "false statement." That one is worth five years by itself. "At some point," says D.A. Danny Porter, "you just can't lie to the police."
Moms in prison — The number of women in prison in the U.S. has grown almost 50 percent since 1995. As many as two out of three of these women are also mothers. Often they lose touch with their children, which experts say puts both mother and child at risk. But in Illinois, they're trying to .
Burt gets slap happy — Burt Reynolds' publicist says his client was being "playful." He never hit the producer. He just "playfully tapped him on the cheek. Burt did ." Ordinarily, who cares? Except that over the years, TV news producers, newspaper writers, and even co-Tonight Show guests have been "playfully tapped" by the former all-Southeastern Conference football halfback. The incident occurred at Reynolds’ film premiere of "The Longest Yard" after the producer asked the actor to tell him about the movie.
