Thursday, May 29, 2003

Isn't it five o'clock yet?

Since it isn't, I have been goofing off anyway. hahaha

Well, it seems that some people in Rome accept marriages from Las Vegas as legitimate. (See news story below.)

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ROME (Reuters) - Getting married in Las Vegas is no laughing matter, Italy's highest court has ruled, rejecting a woman's appeal against bigamy charges.

The woman, named only as Cristina M., was found guilty in 1996 of bigamy and sentenced to eight months in jail after magistrates discovered that she got married in Las Vegas in 1988 before her first marriage in Italy was annulled. Cristina M. told the high court that the Las Vegas service had been "a joke," but the judges ruled against her on Wednesday, deciding that a quickie marriage in a Las Vegas registry office was just as valid as a full-blown church wedding.

A court official said she would not have to go to prison because a statute of limitations meant too much time had passed to warrant a jail term.

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I wonder what the pope would say about that.

Later...

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