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...court hearing on Tuesday morning to extradite Blayn "Bliz" Jiggetts, 19, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was adjourned until Sept. 8. Jiggetts, who was arrested in Harlem on June 9, will continue to be held in jail without bail...
...second suspect in the shooting to be detained by police, Blayn Jiggetts, 19, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was arrested in Harlem on June 9, but has refused to return voluntarily to Massachusetts to face charges. He is being jailed without bail in New York. Prosecutors are seeking a governor’s warrant—which requires the signatures of both the Massachusetts and New York governors—to extradite Jiggetts to Massachusetts to face charges at the Middlesex Superior Court. Jiggetts is scheduled to appear at an arraignment at the Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday...
...second suspect, Blayn "Bliz" Jiggetts, 20, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was arrested on June 9 in connection with the shooting. Jiggetts, who refused to return voluntarily to Massachusetts to face charges and is currently jailed without bail in New York, was indicted Thursday by a Middlesex grand jury on the same charges as Aquino, allowing his case to be heard in Middlesex Superior Court. An arraignment date for Jiggetts has not yet been set, and Welford said that prosecutors are continuing to seek a governor's warrant, which requires the signatures of both the Massachusetts and New York governors...
...most telling, and overlooked, aspects of the brouhaha over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the particular cast of Gates' defenders. There was Deval Patrick, the fresh-faced black governor of Massachusetts, who called the arrest "every black man's nightmare." There was Vernon Jordan, noting that the event "tells us that the election of Barack Obama did not automatically erase racism." There was former Congressman Harold Ford, moderate to a fault, passionately insisting that once Sergeant James Crowley realized Gates had not broken into his own home, the officer should have said, "I'm sorry...
...figure out the plot and forestall the attacks. Novelist Tom Clancy, after all, published the idea in 1994. Unlike the rest of the Bush Administration, Gates - the best Secretary of Defense since George C. Marshall, if not ever - has kept us safe since being sworn in. David P. Vernon, Tucson, Ariz...