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...County, Ga., district attorney J. Tom Morgan. But since Sept. 11, jurors have made a U turn. "There was a time when I'd ask people, 'If the government made it, it must be blank?' And in the past that blank would come back with 'overpriced' or 'unreliable,'" says Houston defense lawyer Troy McKinney. "Today it's more likely to be 'If the government made it, it must be good...
There are no hard numbers yet on how much the new climate may be increasing conviction rates. But lawyers nationwide are exchanging stories. In Houston a week after the attacks, a Mexican defendant convicted of delivering 40 lbs. of heroin was sentenced to 61 years, not the 30 he was expecting. "Everyone was shocked," says his lawyer, Stanley Schneider, who blames Sept. 11 backlash. Doug Allen, a Claremont, Calif., attorney, says he recently had his client--accused of trespassing in a restricted area and then trying to run down a security guard--plea-bargain. Before the attack, he would have...
There is no telling what the dozen pretty young girls invited backstage after Incubus' Houston concert expected to find when they made it past security. It is a fair guess that they did not dress in low-riding denim and tummy-baring T shirts to take part in a unicorn-drawing contest. Too bad for them. At the behest of guitarist Mike Einziger's unicorn-obsessed girlfriend, a competition to draw the mythical creature was under way. Using a wooden food-service table as his canvas, lead singer Brandon Boyd has laid down a medieval unicorn with wings in thick...
...Houston, we have a problem: Three nice eligible boys, three nice eligible girls. Saturday night. Alone in their rooms...
...people, explaining that their odds of being hit by a car while running to the ER are far greater than their chances of contracting anthrax. "We've been testing a lot of Sweet'N Low, drywall dust, sugar and talcum powder," said Kathy Barton, chief of public affairs for Houston's department of health and human services. "When we think we get the public calmed down, something else cracks down in Washington or New York and it heats up again...