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Show SpecialFeatures Page 16 Woman gets prison for lying in court Vote: Candidates ready continued from page 7 • Have the best Science Week ever. Science week needs to be fun, but it also needs to include a careers-in-science day, allowing us to network for internships and employment. • Get more money for you! I plan to seek out scholarships that would be dedicated to the College of Science here at USU. There are more students worthy of scholarships in this college than any other, we need to get more scholarships for you. • If you can handle undergrad research, and if you want it, it is my goal to see that you get it. • I don't want you to waste your time in a class, or recitation, or lab. If it's going to be required, it needs to be productive, and it needs to be the best. "College is about getting you ready for your career, not about breaking your bank. I will get you connected to current internships, scholarships, and research opportunities." Brian Clark HASS GSS Brian Gentry HASS GSS Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 ASUSUELECTIONS Grad Student Senate Prabuddha Ghosh International GSS Tara Nelson HASS GSS Trevor Rowe Education GSS Tony Roberts CNR GSS Subash Shrestha Ag GSS Jesse Walker Science GSS Adam Nelson Graduate Student Vice President Trevor Lee Nelson Graduate Studies VP Class Rank: Grad Student Home Town: Clinton and St. George, Utah Major: M.S. Human Resources and M.B.A. Years at USU: Three Qualifications: NEW YORK (AP) - A woman who fabricated a gang rape accusation was sentenced Tuesday to up to three years behind bars herself, saying she was riven with remorse for sending an innocent man to prison. Biurny Peguero, 27, pleaded guilty in December to perjury, admitting she made up the September 2005 incident that unjustly put construction worker William McCaffrey in jail and prison for nearly four years. A judge overturned his rape conviction in December, with new DNA evidence also playing a role. "I question myself every day as to how I could have done this," Peguero told a Manhattan state court judge. Peguero originally said McCaffrey was the ringleader among three men who raped her at knifepoint after luring her into their car. She met them after a night out at a Manhattan nightclub with female friends. McCaffrey, now 32, said she had agreed to go with them to a party. He said they dropped her off unharmed after she changed her mind. But jurors spurned his account after hearing from Peguero, among other witnesses. She went on to speak at his sentencing hearing, saying, "Justice has finally been served." He was sentenced to 20 years in prison; no one else was convicted. Peguero came to believe her lie because she had been too drunk to remember much of the night in question, according to a report from a psychiatrist who examined Peguero at her lawyer's request. Prosecutors have said she told them she claimed she was raped to make her friends feel sorry for her. Assistant District Attorney Evan Krutoy suggested Tuesday that she may have lied out of anger at a BIURNY PEGUERO, LEFT, walks with her attorney, Paul Callan, toward court in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 23. AP photo man who had upset - but not attacked - her. "I don't know the reason why, but she wanted to do this," he said, urging a twoto six-year sentence. Defense lawyer Paul F. Callan noted that Peguero came forward to clear McCaffrey, approaching a priest and then authorities this year to recant. Meanwhile, new DNA tests had shown that a wound on Peguero's arm came from at least two women - apparently friends she was fighting with - and not McCaffrey. Peguero, who has an infant and a 7year-old, admitted her lie knowing it could mean prison time for her, he said. He pushed for her to get probation instead. Peguero, of Union City, N.J., got a sentence of one to three years in prison. Still, after she handcuffed to await transportation to jail, "she told me that she was at peace with herself," Callan said later Tuesday. "She knew that she was going to be punished, but she knew that she had done the right thing." For his part, McCaffrey's lawyer sent Peguero's judge a letter noting she had made a bold move to right the wrong she had committed. "Although we are upset about her lies that caused, in part, his conviction, we do applaud her courage in coming forward," the lawyer, Glenn A. Garber, said in an interview. As a member of the Exoneration Initiative, a New York-based group that provides free legal help challenging convictions, Garber depicted the case as a reminder that lies can end up carrying legal weight, even in an era of DNA and other forensic evidence. "This case gives you a window into false testimony and makes clear that people can give detailed of accounts of events that are untrue," he said. Arrest ordered in same-sex parent custody case • Civic Awareness Co-Chair for Government Relations Council • Chapter President for ASUSUELECTIONS Golden Key International Honour Society GSS VP • Sigma Phi Epsilon Resident Scholar • Enrollment VP for Logan Institute of Religion • The BusinessWorld Club President • High School Student Body Vice President Goals/Plans for Office: 1)Increase the awareness of activities and additional resources that are available to us as Graduate students. 2) Publicize more about and strengthen participation in the Research Symposium to offer better opportunities for us Graduate students . 3) Solicit an open-door policy for ALL graduate students as a resource for possible concerns or issues. 4) Work with ASUSU to develop a strong Council that will truly be an advocate for ALL students. 5) Strengthen the effectiveness of the Graduate Student Senate. "We will work to ensure that us Graduate students aren't getting left on the backburner when it comes to our development, activities, funding, and everything else!" RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont judge overseeing a custody battle ordered the arrest Tuesday of a Virginia woman who renounced homosexuality, became an evangelical Christian and disappeared with the young daughter she had with her ex-partner. Judge William Cohen found Lisa Miller of Forest, Va., in contempt of court and issued the arrest warrant during a brief hearing in Rutland County family court. "I hope the judge's order today gives law enforcement the tools they need to find my daughter," Miller's former partner, Janet Jenkins, said after the hearing, holding up pictures of the girl, Isabella, and asking anyone who has seen her to contact police or the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Miller's attorney Stephen Crampton said by phone during the hearing that he did not know where the girl, now 7, or Miller are and that he objects to the arrest warrant, which applies only in Vermont. "It seems that it would be an exercise in futility, given that while no one has any idea precisely where Ms. Miller and Isabella may be located as of right now, it seems least likely" that they would be in Vermont, he said. Jenkins' attorney said it would be up to the Rutland County state's attorney, Marc Brierre, to seek a national arrest warrant on felony charges of custodial interfer- ence. Brierre was out of his office Tuesday and unavailable for comment. Miller and Jenkins were joined in a Vermont civil union in 2000, and Isabella was born to Miller in 2002. The couple broke up in 2003, and Miller moved to Virginia. Cohen initially awarded custody to Miller and gave Jenkins liberal visitation rights. But Cohen ordered a switch in custody in November after finding Miller in contempt of court for denying Jenkins access to the girl. A switch in custody had been scheduled for Jan. 1, but Miller and Isabella didn't appear. 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