Elementary

Today you are going to read an article about a crime. Ma egy bűntettről szóló újságcikket
olvashattok.

First read the article. Először olvasd el a cikket.

Police Stop Mel Gibson For Drinking And Driving

Police in California arrested actor and director Mel Gibson for drinking and driving on Friday morning.
Gibson drove 140 kilometers per hour in a zone where they only allow 72 kilometers per hour. He also drank
more alcohol than what is allowed under Californian law.
Later, Gibson shouted at the police and said bad things about Jews, according to a report.
Yesterday Gibson said he was sorry for what he did: "I acted like a person completely out of control when I was
arrested and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable."

Glossary:
Drinking and driving – ittas vezetés
Arrest – letartóztat
Allow – enged, engedélyez
Law – törvény
Out of control – vad, kezelhetetlen
Despicable – megvetendő

Answer the questions in English. Válaszolj angolul a kérdésekre.

1. Where did the police arrest Mel Gibson?

2. Why did they arrest him?
3. When did they arrest him?
4. At what speed did he drive?
5. What speed is allowed?
6. Who did he say bad things about?
7. Did Mel Gibson apologise for his behaviour?
8. How does he describe his behaviour?

Read some quotations about crime and translate them into Hungarian. Végezetül olvassatok néhány
idézetet a bűnözéssel kapcsolatban, és fordítsátok le a mondatokat magyarra.

1. Talk about tough neighbourhoods. Where I lived nobody asked you the time, they just took your
watch.

2. Everybody had the right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

3. When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t
work that way, so I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.

4. Help your local police force, beat yourself up.

5. Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that’s true anywhere in he world.

Intermediate

First read the article.

British soldier is first to admit war crime

A British soldier today pleaded guilty to inhumanely treating Iraqi civilians, making him the first member of the
British armed forces to admit a war crime.
Corporal Donald Payne, 35, formerly of the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment now renamed the Duke of
Lancaster’s Regiment, entered a guilty plea as he and six other British soldiers went on trial accused of several
charges in relation to prisoners detained in Iraq. He and his comrades deny all other charges.
Corporal Payne also faces more serious charge of manslaughter as well as obstructing justice in regard to the
death of Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old hotel worker who died on September 15 2003 at a British military base in
Basra.
Mr Mousa and other detainees were arrested and allegedly assaulted repeatedly between September 14 and 15
2003, while in custody of the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment – now part of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment.
Two other soldiers - Lance Corporal Wayne Crowcroft, 22, and Private Darren Fallon, 23, also stand accused of
the inhumane treatment of persons, a charge being brought as a war crime under the International Criminal
Court Act of 2001. It is the first time that British military personnel have been prosecuted under the act.
All other matters faced by the defendants are alleged offences under the British Army Act of 1955.
Sergeant Kelvin Stacey, 29, of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, is accused of assault occasioning actual
bodily harm with an alternative count of common assault.
Colonel Jorge Mendonca, 42 - formerly the commander of the regiment - is accused of negligently performing a
duty, a charge which relates to the alleged failure to take reasonable steps to ensure that military personnel under
their control did not ill-treat detainees.
Major Michael Peebles, 35, and Warrant Officer Mark Davies, 37, both of the Intelligence Corps, each also face
a charge of negligently performing a duty.
The court martial, which is being held at a military base in Bulford, about 85 miles from London, will be
conducted by Justice McKinnon, 67, an experienced High Court judge who usually hears civil and criminal
cases. It is the first time that a judge from outside the military system has headed a court martial.
Opening the case for the prosecution, Julian Bevan, QC, said that the detainees were repeatedly beaten, kicked
and punched whilst handcuffed, as well as hooded with sacks, deprived of sleep and "generally abused in
temperatures rising to almost 60C".
"One civilian, Baha Musa, died as a result, in part, from the multiple injuries he had received - there being no
less than 93 injuries on his body at the post mortem stage, including fractured ribs and a broken nose," Mr
Bevan told a seven-man judging panel.
Another detainee suffered such serious kidney injuries that it resulted in renal failure which could have killed
him but for medical intervention, Mr Bevan said.
"We are not dealing in this case with robust or rough handling, which is bound to happen in the theatre that
existed in Iraq, but something far more serious. We are not dealing with the actions of a soldier or soldiers in the
heat of the moment whilst on patrol in a hostile environment whose conduct is questionable.
"We are dealing with systematic abuse against prisoners involving unacceptable violence against persons who
were detained in custody, hooded and cuffed and wholly unable to protect themselves over a very long period of
time."
Mr Bevan said the alleged abuse took place at a temporary three-room detention facility near the centre of
operations for the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment. Of Corporal Payne, he said that, despite his admission of
inhumane treatment, "his behaviour went some way beyond what he admits".
"Before he [Baha Musa] died, he had removed his handcuffs, and it was believed by Corporal Payne that he was
trying to escape," the prosecutor told the court.
Mr Bevan said that the "sheer openness" with which the detainees were inhumanely treated indicated that there
was a failure of more senior officers in their duty to protect their prisoners, who were being questioned to see if
they should be held on the basis that they posed a threat to the Coalition troops.
The court was told that after Mr Mousa's death, Corporal Payne attempted to pervert the course of justice by
telling those who had witnessed him beating the Iraqi not to speak about it to those who would investigate.
The case continues.

Find the expressions in the text which mean the following.

1. beismeri bűnösségét
2. fegyveres erők
3. háborús bűn
4. vádolni valakit valamivel
5. vád
6. tagadja a vádakat
7. emberölés
8. őrizetben lenni
9. beperel, vádat emel, feljelentést tesz
10. megbilincselni
11.a pillanaz hevében
12. járőrőzni

Answer the questions in English.

1. What did a British soldier admit?

2. When did the whole crime happen?
3. Which law does the text refer to?
4. What happened to the detainees?
5. What happened to Baha Musa?
6. Did the assaults happen in the heat of the moment or were they systematic?

Read some quotations about crime and translate them into Hungarian.

1. Good man must not obey the laws too well.

2. It’s rather a pleasant experience to be alone in a bank, sad the robber.

3. Every politician, who leaves office, ought to go straight to jail and serve his time.

4. A Senator is someone who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

Advanced

First read the article.

Saddam judge is replaced

The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial has been replaced amid complaints from Shiite and Kurdish
officials that he was too soft on the former Iraqi leader, a move that could raise accusations of government
interference in the highly sensitive case.
The government spokesman's office announced that judge Abdullah al-Amiri was replaced with Mohammed al-
Uraibiy, who was his deputy in the trial, said a court official, who asked not to be named because he was not
authorized to speak to the media. Al-Uraibiy is a Shiite Muslim Arab, the official said.
The Iraqi High Tribunal, the country's supreme court, made the request in a letter to prime minister Nouri al-
Maliki, who approved it, according to a government official who also asked not to be named for the same
reasons.
One of Saddam's defense lawyers decried the move as purely political.
"This was a coup that succeeded. There was no legal reason for removing him (al-Amiri)," defense lawyer
Badee Izzat Aref said.
"They (court officials) felt that he would not respond to their demands," he said.
Hussein al-Duri, an aide to the prime minister, said one reason for al-Amiri's dismissal was the judge's
comments last week in a court session, in which he told Saddam "You were not a dictator."
"The head of the court is requested to run and control the session, and he is not allowed to violate judicial
regulations, " al-Duri told Al-Arabiya television. "It is not allowed for the judge to express his opinion."
Al-Amiri's comment angered many Kurds and Shiites, fuelling their criticism that he was too lenient with
Saddam. Prosecutors in the trial had already asked for al-Amiri to be replaced after he allowed Saddam to lash
out at Kurdish witnesses during a court session.
The change could revive complaints that the government is interfering in the tribunal trying Saddam and his
regime members to ensure a quick guilty verdict. In the current trial, Saddam faces a possible death penalty if
convicted on genocide charges over the Anfal military offensive against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s.
In Saddam's first trial - over alleged atrocities against Shiites in the town of Dujail - the chief judge stepped
down halfway through the 9-month-long proceedings, saying he could no longer put up with criticism from
officials that he was too lenient in allowing courtroom outbursts by Saddam and his co-defendants.
He was replaced by a far tougher judge who several times threw out defendants and defense lawyers he said
were out of line.
A verdict in the Dujail trial is expected on October 16.
The current case against Saddam began on October 21. Al-Amiri presided over the latest session of that trial
Tuesday, in which more Kurdish survivors of Anfal recounted chemical bombardment of their villages by the
Iraqi military.
Saddam and six other defendants are on trial for alleged atrocities against Kurds during Operation Anfal, a
crackdown on Kurdish guerrillas in the late 1980s. The prosecution alleges some 180,000 people died in the
campaign, many of them civilians killed by poison gas.
Saddam and his cousin "Chemical" Ali al-Majid are charged with genocide, and the others with various
offenses. All could face death by hanging if convicted.

Find the words in the text which mean the following.

1. fajirtás, tömeggyilkosság
2. közt
3. enyhén bánni valakivel
4. becsmérel, leszól, leértékel
5. puccs
6. szítani
7. engedékeny
8. kirohan valaki ellen
9. ítélet
10. elnököl

Answer the questions.

1. Who complained about the chief judge and why?

2. What is a judge not allowed to do?
3. Did this particular judge do anything which was not allowed?
4. Why is Saddam on trial?
5. How many people died because of him?

Read some quotations about crime and translate them into Hungarian.

1. Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is widely signalling demanding to be let out.

2. The streets are sae in Philadelphia, it’s only the people who make them unsafe.

3. There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that it’s fighting without them.

4. In a democracy everyone has the right to be represented, including the jerks.