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...with her friend Kathy (Catherine Deneuve) and also takes part in a local production of The Sound of Music. And when situations become unbearable, she breaks into a musical number, which takes place in her mind, a form of mental dissociation. Tragically, her savings are stolen by a local sheriff, Bill (David Morse), who rents her a house on his property. Ashamed that he won't be able to support his prodigal wife, he forces Selma to kill him in exchange for the money. Upon recovering the money, Selma pays an eye clinic in advance for her son's operation...
...exchange, Harvard agreed to free the sheriff's office from responsibility for any litigation or damages resulting from the actions of HUPD officers...
...deputy sheriff, like a HUPD officer, may make a warrantless arrest for any "breach of the peace" committed in his presence. The laws of the commonwealth also allow for deputy sheriffs to enter any premise licensed to serve alcohol without a warrant and make an arrest for any violation...
...Someone who is deputized as a state police officer or county sheriff is, for all intents and purposes, a public official, and to deny the public access to their records and actions flies in the face of our public records statutes," he says...
Burns, the sheriff who is second-in-command of the Middlesex County office, says that deputy sheriffs are "for some purposes" public officials, although he said he believed that special deputies were not public officials for the purpose of the public records act--though his own deputies are, indeed, subject to those laws...