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...migrants who died in the Victoria case, the worst smuggling tragedy in U.S. history, were ferried to the border by the Avianeda-Andrade ring. Federal prosecutors have charged Karla Chavez, 25, a Honduran, with being the "general" responsible for cramming more than 70 illegal migrants into the trailer. She pleaded not guilty...
...would pass over it. But after the fires of the past 10 days, that troglodyte house is all that is left of the Vérets' summer retreat. Flames laid waste to everything, leaving only the skeletons of a few cork oaks and the aluminum kitchen sink from a trailer where their vacationing daughter and grandchildren had been staying. "It looks like Verdun in 1916," she says. "The devastation is terrifying." Five dead tourists, 19 wounded firefighters, 30,000 hectares destroyed - spurred by unusually high winds, the worst fires in more than a decade in the desiccated south of France...
Color is one possible factor; class is another. There's a financial gulf between those who pay $175,000 for a golf-club membership and those who caddy for them. Most who work in Vail can't afford to live there. Trailer parks are home not just to carhops and maids but to social workers and the police. Could a local jury reflect the resentment the near poor have for the very rich...
...defendant was at home with his wife and children, and it was dark, and they were in the bedroom watching TV, and there was this loud banging on the side of their mobile home. The defendant felt there was evidence that these were people trying to break into his trailer and steal his dope and harm his family...
...though, most members sided with the cops. Other police officers at Delamora's trailer that night said they had clearly and repeatedly made their presence known. Barrera, the devout Catholic, voted against seeking death, as she usually does, but she was in the minority. Most people in the room went with their prosecutorial gut: "It's really difficult for prosecutors to be fully objective about cop killers," says assistant D.A. Case. "Some of us had doubts, and we knew Ronnie would have to make an effort at resolving them in that particular case... I don't know everything that...