For every breathless declaration, there seemed to be a corresponding expression of doubt over how juicy a drunken-driving infraction from 24 years ago really was.
Mr. Stuller's company, which has now approved some 2,400 advisers, rejects anyone with any type of infraction — from a securities fine to a misdemeanor for getting into a fight.
The major infraction, from the perspective of the California Coastal Commission, was not damage to the redwood habitat caused by the wedding, but rather the fact that development had occurred on the site without the property owner (the hotel) seeking a permit, and, moreover, that the hotel was obligated to keep the site open to the public as a commercial campground.
Referee Jay Nady, Morales said, kept warning Barrera about infractions from low blows to elbowing to holding and hitting but never deducted any points.
Henderson also thought it was interesting that U.S.C. would appear before the N.C.A.A.'s committee on infractions from Feb. 19-21 because Seantrel's two sisters have birthdays on Feb. 20 and Feb. 21. "It's just a lot," he said.
Together, they pored over the World Values Survey, a poll of 87 countries that asks respondents, among other things, about their religious beliefs and the acceptability of a range of infractions, from littering to adultery.
Institutions were fined for a range of infractions, from making false or misleading statements promoting their institutions to offering unaccredited courses and violating registration regulations such as operating on unregistered premises.
But the tour of the prison, Correctional Colony 13, also underscored a point that the authorities might not have intended to highlight: most of the inmates are here for work-related infractions, from accepting bribes to attacking suspects.
Upon taking over the building, the Serils said some tenants owed back rent and accused others of infractions from illegal subletting to ripping out fixtures to installing appliances that put a dangerous strain on the building's wires and pipes.
Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine announced on Wednesday that he had barred Trans World Assurance, based in San Mateo, Calif., and imposed a $214,000 fine, after concluding that the company had committed nearly 200 infractions from September 2007 to last March.
And it is not just corruption that has been abolished on the little island but a variety of lesser human infractions, from spitting on the sidewalk to failing to flush a public toilet: the population is subject to an authoritarian penal code.
