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Johnson needed no license or qualifications to be a facilitator in California--only clients with money. Several couples replied to her Internet ad featuring the Wecker twins, but it was Vickie and Richard Allen of San Bernardino, Calif., who won the human lottery. They have an adopted son and wanted to complete their family. Vickie, a bookkeeper, sold the diamond from her engagement ring to help raise the $6,000 Johnson demanded. In October the couple signed a "placement agreement" with Wecker and filed it with the state to start the six-month check of the Allens' suitability. None...
...Allen's attorney in the 1988 case was shocked to learn the state was after the death penalty. He asked the judge for help from the public defender's office because he had never handled a capital case alone and the Allen family paid him only $800, so he couldn't afford investigators. The judge refused, and Allen was convicted without her attorney knowing anything about her IQ or possible brain damage. She didn't have the sense to tell...
...that it would have mattered. Oklahoma is one of 13 states that do not prohibit executions of the mentally deficient. Still, Presson argued in last-minute appeals that prosecutors knowingly misled the clemency board when they claimed Allen was a high school graduate and briefly attended college. Prosecutors, who insist that Allen was competent and functional, said Allen herself made those claims at her murder trial. And indeed she did, inexplicably and irrationally damaging her own cause...
Thumbs up to writer Eugenie Allen for not buckling under to pressure to provide television sets for her children's rooms [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR FAMILY, Dec. 25-Jan. 1]. We also do not let television divide our family. More parents need to take a stand and preserve the time the family spends together...
...extended periods of time often are worried about job tenure, not to mention making ends meet. One practice that is proving to be a dramatic stress reducer for chronically ill employees is the "sick bank," where healthy employees can donate sick days to a colleague. Second-grade teacher Raquel Allen, 47, of Imperial Beach, Calif., is currently recovering from a double mastectomy. Even though her job with the school district entitles her to only 13 sick days a year, so far she has received 72 anonymously donated days that have allowed her to maintain her salary. Common among unionized governmental...