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Holland's family was outraged. Last week her brother made public a 6,000- signature petition demanding that Porto get the maximum penalty. "Rough sex?" scoffs her father Denis, a retired policeman. "That phrase wasn't even part of my daughter's vocabulary." It had, however, become part of the...
Ironically, the rough-sex defense may require an attractive defendant to succeed. It will work only if the accused is "sympathetic, not a hardened type of character," says New York Attorney Thomas Puccio. It may also require a certain kind of jury to accept the premise that young women might...
What the young recruits found was not what they had been promised. At the height of their empire, the Chambers gang controlled about half of Detroit's crack trade, running 200 drug houses, supplying some 500 more and raking in $3 million a week. The key to their success was...
Not everyone stayed intimidated. In February tips from disaffected Marianna youths led to criminal indictments in Detroit against the four Chambers brothers, as well as 18 others, including many from Marianna.
Today Marianna is a town traumatized by its past. Some of the young men who left as country bumpkins returned as hardened criminals. About half of those indicted are still at large, and people are terrified that the Chamberses will try to get even. There have been several fire bombings, including one directed at a woman who testified against a Chambers brother. Yet one fact about Marianna remains the same. Says Councilman Roy Lewellen: "I can't think of eight black teenagers who are employed...