Word: prosecutors
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...pregnant was not enough to make her drop it. So when her daughter tested positive at birth for the presence of drugs in her urine, health officials in Muskegon County, Mich., took the child into temporary custody. But, to Bremer's astonishment, there was more. The county prosecutor stepped in to charge her with a felony: delivery of drugs to her newborn child. The means of delivery? Her umbilical cord...
After Bremer completed a drug treatment program, she regained her daughter, who is apparently healthy. But the criminal charges remain. "I could lose her," says Bremer. "I could go to prison, and she could grow up with who knows who." Prosecutor Tony Tague is unmoved. He says the threat of prison is sometimes the only way to get pregnant addicts to seek treatment: "Someone must stand up for the rights of the children...
...newborns in the U.S. could suffer harm from their mothers' prenatal abuse of illegal drugs, district attorneys are tempted by what looks like the quick fix of pregnancy prosecution. "You have the right to an abortion. You have the right to have a baby," says Charles Molony Condon, prosecutor for the Charleston, N.C., area. "You don't have the right to have a baby deformed by cocaine." Courts have given a mostly skeptical reception to the attempt to apply existing drug laws in such a novel fashion, but eight states and Congress are considering legislation that would explicitly criminalize drug...
Praveen Malhotra, who denies killing his wife, is out on bail. According to a prosecutor, he will almost certainly be acquitted...
Most of the panelists predicted early in the evening that former prosecutor William F. Weld '66 would defeat Boston University President John R. Silber in the race for Massachusetts governor...