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San Francisco -- TUPAC SHAKUR is a punk. Worse than that, he's a punk masquerading as a role model.In the April issue of Vibe magazine, the rapper-turned-actor-turned-shooter speaks from jail on Rikers Island and does his best to spread enough manure to fertilize the Nebraska cornfields.Tupac Shakur, 23, who was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison last month on a sex-abuse charge, would have us believe that he's been freed from his "addiction" to pot-smoking, club-hopping and his "Thug Life" persona.

A state administrative law judge accused of sexually abusing a 17-year-old foster child beginning in 1987 was indicted last week on charges of molesting a second youth in the early 1980s.Marvin Lee Teal, 44, of Ellicott City was indicted by a Howard County grand jury Thursday on seven counts alleging that he sexually abused a teen-age boy between 1980 and 1985, court records say.Mr. Teal is charged with two counts each of child abuse and perverted sexual practices, and one count each of assault, battery and a fourth-degree sexual offense.

A former state administrative law judge, on probation since 1995 for sexually abusing two teen-age boys in his Ellicott City apartment, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in jail for sexually molesting a boy he met last year in the Annapolis area.Marvin Lee Teal, 46, wept and apologized to the child in Anne Arundel Circuit Court.Judge Clayton R. Greene Jr. imposed the sentence and said Teal would have to complete a treatment program for child molesters after his release.Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia M. Ferris made no sentencing recommendation but noted that the offenses violated Teal's Howard County probation and that he could be sentenced to 15 years there.

A former state administrative law judge who was convicted in 1995 of sexually abusing two boys -- including his foster son -- was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for violating his probation.Martin Lee Teal, 48, received five years of supervised probation and a 15-year suspended prison sentence for the assaults at his Ellicott City home as part of an April 1995 plea agreement with Howard County prosecutors.A year later, he sexually abused another boy in Anne Arundel County and is serving 18 months for that offense.

A former state administrative law judge, on probation since 1995 for sexually abusing two teen-age boys in his Ellicott City apartment, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in jail for sexually molesting a boy he met last year in the Annapolis area.Marvin Lee Teal, 46, wept and apologized to the child in Anne Arundel Circuit Court.Judge Clayton R. Greene Jr. imposed the sentence and said Teal would have to complete a treatment program for child molesters after his release.Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia M. Ferris made no sentencing recommendation but noted that the offenses violated Teal's Howard County probation and that he could be sentenced to 15 years there.

A state administrative judge charged with sexually abusing two teen-age boys, including his foster son, accepted a plea agreement yesterday that spares him a prison term.Marvin Lee Teal of Ellicott City was given a suspended 15-year prison term by Howard Circuit Judge Raymond Kane Jr. after he pleaded guilty to charges that include two counts of child abuse.The victims reported to police that most of the incidents occurred after they fell asleep in Mr. Teal's apartment and awakened to find Mr. Teal molesting them, according to reports filed in Circuit Court.

Marvin Lee Teal, in jail on child abuse charges and facing a five-year sentence for violating probation, asked a three-judge panel to reduce his time behind bars.Instead, they doubled it.In a rare decision, Teal, 48, a former state administrative law judge, has been ordered to serve 10 years in prison, after using a legal avenue that is the judicial system's equivalent of rolling the dice."I'm sure he's rather devastated," said Joseph Tauber, Teal's attorney, of the decision two weeks ago by three Howard County judges.

A couple of months after completing a prison term for child abuse, a former state administrative judge was arrested at the central Enoch Pratt Free Library Thursday evening on charges of possessing child pornography, authorities said. Marvin Lee Teal, 53, of the 2000 block of N. Calvert St. was arrested after a police officer spotted him viewing sexual images of children on a computer in the library's periodicals section, court documents show. Teal was downloading the images from the Internet, police said.

Fresh from a six-year prison stint for the sexual assault of an underage boy, it took six weeks for former state Administrative Judge Marvin Lee Teal to get arrested in downtown Baltimore on pornography charges. Teal, 53, who was convicted five times of sexually abusing children in the 1990s, was arrested at the central Enoch Pratt Free Library last week. He is accused of downloading pornographic images of minors on a library computer. Yesterday, District Court Judge Nancy B. Shuger raised his bail from $25,000 to $75,000 after she reviewed his file.

Two City Jail inmates were being held without bail yesterda after their botched attempt to switch places so that one could escape.The two Baltimore men -- Robert Teal and James Ray -- are friends, both 20 years old, look somewhat alike and were brought into the jail around the same time, according to a report filed by Capt. Samuel Hawkins of the jail staff.Captain Hawkins reported that "somehow, the photographs on the paperwork had been switched," said Baltimore police Sgt. John Bevilacqua, reading the Hawkins account of Friday evening's escape attempt.