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Here are just a couple of tales from the rough frontier of Texas justice: a teenager in Bexar County charged with drug crimes last September sat in jail for a month before his first scheduled meeting with a court-appointed lawyer. That attorney never showed up; and by the time the boy met the next one, he'd been behind bars more than three months. Andrew Cantu of Abilene was executed in February even though his third court-assigned appellate lawyer--the first two withdrew--didn't know how to find Cantu in prison, didn't do any investigation...
...back from pseudonymity. An attempt in 1989 came to naught. But this year, through an intermediary, she passed word to Larry Hatfield, a veteran reporter with the San Francisco Examiner (coincidentally, a Hearst publication), that she might turn herself in to the FBI if she could avoid jail time. She broke off talks when America's Most Wanted aired its segment. Says Hatfield: "Kathy's side thought that the show indicated bad faith" on the FBI's part. She also became skittish when L.A.P.D.. detective David Reyes, one of King's men, insisted on cutting out the middlemen...
...shift. Sergeant Pete Fenton tells them about a fresh homicide and about a tree that will be planted in Marc's honor out front. A chalkboard advisory warns against dining at a certain fast-food joint because a cook with a grudge, just out of jail, is bound to add special ingredients to any cop's dinner...
...could pocket a payment of anywhere from $1 million on up in exchange for agreeing not to file a civil suit. But even if Combs' legal problems are disposed of, there will be lingering questions: Why would one of hip-hop's smartest executives attack a rival and risk jail? What lit his fuse...
...home with: Starr got Hubbell to plead guilty to one felony count of lying about the failed Castle Grande land deal while he was a lawyer at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas, and also one misdemeanor count involving tax evasion. Hubbell got the prosecutors to agree to no jail time. And the Clintons -- particularly Hillary Clinton, who was a partner at the Rose Law Firm and whose name has come up in connection with Castle Grande -- will get no further embarrassments out of the case...