Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While a solicitor in Charleston, Condon began his program of prosecuting women whose babies tested positive for cocaine. In some cases he had women taken from hospital rooms, handcuffed and jailed. The state supreme court ruling came in the case of Cornelia Whitner, who pleaded guilty to child neglect in 1992 when her baby was born with traces of cocaine in his system. She was sentenced to 8 years in jail, but lower courts overturned the decision on grounds that a fetus was not a person. The state supreme court restored the conviction. (Whitner's attorneys plan to appeal...
...were a federal judge," Ellison said, "I'd jail Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates and their families," referring to Microsoft's executive vice president, Steven A. Ballmer '77, and Gates, Microsoft's chief executive, who originally was in the Class of 1977 but left the College after his sophomore year...
...with the absurdity of so many of its situations, for instance, when "Orlovsky" claims, "Vee Russians have a motto: chacun a son gout" and sings an aria about it, or when Eisenstein sneaks off to the party by telling his wife (who thinks he's going to jail) that "the tuxedo is the requisite emblem of innocence." But a lot of it is in the English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin, which one has to admit can be at times clunky ("transgressors taste my fury" or "your face I have to see"--who talks like that?), but at others...
...some beer. If the CPD makes it clear to local stores that violation of the law will not be tolerated, they will have greater incentive to closely inspect ID's, and minors will be refused service. The goals of the CPD can be achieved without sending young students to jail...
...Shops" program. If nothing else, it is excessively hostile to Harvard students, the likely victims of such sting operations. The CPD should devote its resources to keeping the streets safe for all Cantabrigians. The underhanded "Cops in Shops" program devotes too much effort toward putting predominantly decent kids in jail for trying to buy booze. The recent implementation of the "Cops in Shops" program at various liquor stores in Cambridge disappoints and angers us greatly...