* Franklin James, 23, was charged with aggravated assault in Newport, Tenn., in June after putting Super Glue on his wife's genitals as punishment for an alleged affair. His wife obtained a judicial protection order against him, but according to an August news report, the couple was living together again and planning to move to North Carolina.

* A stripper who had filed a lawsuit (Leonard vs. Kukar) in Fairfax County, Va., to recover for injuries she suffered in a car accident at first objected to the defendant's showing a videotape of her performing after the injury, believing the jury would think she was malingering. However, according to her lawyer, James M. Lowe, the tape backfired in her favor. The post-injury performance was basically standing and wiggling, while her pre-injury notoriety was based on limberness in working around a pole. In March, the jury awarded her $182,000, three times what she requested, but she may have been aided by the fact that six of the seven jurors were men.

* In June, Jerrick Michael Snell violated the cardinal rule of sentencing in a Dothan, Ala., court, after Judge Lawson Little had given him 20 years for cocaine possession. A few minutes later, as the judge, on other business, passed by Snell in a courthouse holding pen, Snell said in explicit terms that the judge should perform oral sex on him, at which point Little ordered him back into the courtroom and changed the sentence to life in prison.