Word: prosecutor
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...pregnant was not enough to make her drop it. So when her daughter tested positive at birth for the presence of drugs in her urine, health officials in Muskegon County, Mich., took the child into temporary custody. But, to Bremer's astonishment, there was more. The county prosecutor stepped in to charge her with a felony: delivery of drugs to her newborn child. The means of delivery? Her umbilical cord...
After Bremer completed a drug treatment program, she regained her daughter, who is apparently healthy. But the criminal charges remain. "I could lose her," says Bremer. "I could go to prison, and she could grow up with who knows who." Prosecutor Tony Tague is unmoved. He says the threat of prison is sometimes the only way to get pregnant addicts to seek treatment: "Someone must stand up for the rights of the children...
BOSTON--L. Scott Harshbarger '64, the Cambridge prosecutor who unseated the incumbent Massachusetts attorney general in the primary, easily captured the seat in the general election yesterday over a little-known opponent...
Most of the panelists predicted early in the evening that former prosecutor William F. Weld '66 would defeat Boston University President John R. Silber in the race for Massachusetts governor...
...Republican candidate for governor, William Weld '66, while undoubtably intelligent (summa cum laude Harvard College and Harvard Law) and highly regarded as a lawyer and federal prosecutor, has not proven himself to be as adept an administrator. For example while Weld was U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, his department's budget grew by 87 percent and its staff by 40 percent over five years...