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...search was going nowhere when a third-year student at Harvard Law School named Bill Sapp stepped into the picture. Out of the blue, he volunteered to coach the team...
...many high schools, some students manage to sneak away for a few beers during lunch period. "Teenage drinking is definitely the biggest problem we now have in our schools," says Peggy Sapp, executive director of Informed Families of Dade County, Fla. "It's not just the idea of going out to have a drink. Now they are going out to get drunk." Linda Baron, a Miami drug-abuse specialist, says, "Sometimes we wonder which comes first: poor grades, poor relationships with families and low self-esteem, or teenage drinking problems...
Warden Jack Pursley posed the traditional question, and Brooks, 40, did indeed have some last words. He turned to his friend Vanessa Sapp, 27, and said he loved her, prayed aloud to Allah, turned again to Sapp and told her, "Be strong." At that, Warden Pursley gave the cue ("We are ready") to a technician hidden in the next room, and a fast-acting barbiturate came flowing through one of the IV tubes. Brooks yawned, shut his eyes and wheezed. Within minutes, Brooks, who had been a heroin user, was dead from a drug overdose meted out by the Texas...
...many of their applicants it is not a case of which college they pick, but whether they can go at all. The aim of the colleges is to move students along so that, by graduation, they have caught up with the rest of the country. Says Tuskegee Dean Walter Sapp: "Yes, we create an atmosphere where a student can play catchup, but we also have people in graduate schools all around the nation." In fact, 24% of black college students go on to graduate school (vs. 33% from white colleges...
...their chagrin, authorities then discovered that they had little with which to charge Sapp. The evidence was admissible and damaging. But Sapp could not be charged with conspiracy because the other "conspirator" was a law officer who had no intention of carrying out his part of the deal. Therefore no true conspiracy existed. Further, Florida, like many other states, has no statute defining solicitation of a murder as a felony. Hence prosecutors had to settle for a common-law rule under which it is only a misdemeanor. Maximum penalty: one year and $1,000. The trial is scheduled...