

Heaps was indicted in 2021 on multiple counts each of sexual battery by fraud, sexual exploitation of a patient and sexual penetration of an unconscious person by fraudulent representation. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope. The jury found him not guilty of seven of the 21 counts and was deadlocked on the remaining charges. At the heart of the story are 2 young brothers, one a teenager and one a child of 8, who are about to set out to find their mother after the death of their father. Though dark shadows fall across its final chapters, the book is permeated. Heaps, a longtime UCLA campus gynecologist, had pleaded not guilty to 21 felony counts in the sexual assaults of seven women between 20. 'The Lincoln Highway', is a marvelous story that is at once an adventure novel while being a tale of hopes and dreams fulfilled or dashed. At nearly 600 pages, The Lincoln Highway is remarkably brisk, remarkably buoyant. Carter ordered him to register as a sex offender, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 210,362 ratings, 4.25 average rating, 22,990 reviews Open Preview The Lincoln Highway Quotes Showing 1-30 of 261 For kindness begins where necessity ends. James Heaps, 66, has been in custody since a jury convicted him in October of three counts of sexual battery by fraud and two counts of sexual penetration of two patients.Īfter sentencing Heaps, Judge Michael D.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for sexually abusing female patients, in a criminal trial that came after the university system made nearly $700 million in lawsuit payouts connected to the case.ĭr.
