Rather, because his Scarpia is in so many ways just another powerful man unable to blunt his baser instincts, he is all the more menacing.

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Judge Adrian Smith said Khosravi was a well-educated man from a "decent, supportive family" who turned "violent and frighteningly menacing" during the attack.

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