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Inside, the Queen reminded the 400 Americans that Britannia was essentially retracing a stretch of Sir Francis Drake's 1579 route up the Pacific Coast. He "claimed this territory as 'Nova Albion' for the first Queen Elizabeth," she said, "and 'for the Queen's successors forever.' " Smile. Pause. "I am happy, though, to give you an immediate assurance that I have not come here today to press that claim." (She failed to deliver the kicker that the Nova Albion/California natives at the time, utterly wowed by their godlike English visitor, lavished Drake with gifts...
...Judy Drake, Croxton's attorney in the grievance, would not comment on whether Croxton's victory has far reaching implications, saying only. "The primary thing was that Pearl be reinstated that was my main concern...
...Drake refused to say if a discrimination complaint is pending with the EEOC...
Hinckley's twisted poetry also became a matter of dispute. Asked Blyther: "Could a sane person have written it? Obviously something is wrong with him." Drake, who said she likes to write too, disagreed. "This man is a writer and writers are strange. He is not stranger than they are because he was infatuated with Jodie Foster. He shot four people." The argument turned on whether poetry should be considered factual or if, as Prosecutor Roger Adelman had insisted during the trial, fictional. "Poetry is not fiction," Lassiter argued vehemently. They all tended to agree. To make sure, they...
After the verdict was read to the court, the dozen deliberators returned to the jury room for the last time. Many of the women started sobbing. "My conscience had me voting one way, but the law would not allow me to vote that way," claimed Copelin afterward. Said Drake: "If the people who are being critical were in the jury room with us, they'd come to the same decision." Coffey agrees. "We did the best job with what we had to work with," he said. "Hinckley is messed up. All we can do now is hope he gets...