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* [[French]] [[Marxist]] [[structuralist]] [[philosopher]] Professor [[Louis Althusser]] (1918-1990) killed his wife in 1980 and was afterwards confined to a psychiatric hospital.

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* British history professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto was incarcerated for jaywalking and defiance of police instructions in [[Atlanta]]. <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6251431.stm</ref>

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* Alison Brading, a professor at Oxford University, is fined for breaching local conservation ordinances in Oxford, for replacing a door of her 18th Century cottage, to an easier to open one, after she claimed the old one often expanded and jammed, trapping her in the house. <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4463470.stm</ref>

* Axe-wielding Professor Daniel Storm, of the University of Washington, polluted using ether to save paying safe disposal fees.<ref>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003607035_uwprof08m0.html</ref>

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