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...jail, but lower courts overturned the decision on grounds that a fetus was not a person. The state supreme court restored the conviction. (Whitner's attorneys plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.) Meanwhile, last week, Talitha Renee Garrick, 27, a Columbia woman who said she smoked crack cocaine a little more than an hour before she gave birth to a stillborn child, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a lower court. Condon relishes the thought that the Whitner case will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Win or lose, "South Carolina is uniquely poised to have...
...dictated that Colbert be booked at the 39th-district police headquarters, about a mile away. But Colbert wasn't in the land of official procedure; he was in the hands of Blondie. So, instead, he was taken to 1518 Ontario Street, a run-down three-story home and sometime crack house that served as a sort of hidden adjunct to precinct headquarters...
...many of the residents were (and are) "nice," and they were the ones who screamed loudest for the police to crack down on the crime wave. "The bosses would come back from community meetings with a string of complaints, and we were told to get on it--just get it done," says Blondie. Police supervisors, he says, had other pressures too: "Above the rank of captain, you get promoted mostly by who you know on the force and in politics. And the politicians scream as loud as the residents. Can you tell me when you ever heard a politician...
...striking contrast to the equally lovely lines that followed, "He gave his back to despisers." The soprano recitatives of Pifa, the second, post-natal half of Part I give Labelle a real chance to shine. She displays a very clear, resonant voice, only occasionally marred by a slight crack or falter. She warbles trills such as those in the "Rejoice greatly" aria as one imagines the very angels would...
...calls itself a community," he said. "If they abuse things, then record and software companies are going to crack down and everybody will get nothing...