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While a solicitor in Charleston, Condon began his program of prosecuting women whose babies tested positive for cocaine. In some cases he had women taken from hospital rooms, handcuffed and jailed. The state supreme court ruling came in the case of Cornelia Whitner, who pleaded guilty to child neglect in 1992 when her baby was born with traces of cocaine in his system. She was sentenced to 8 years in jail, but lower courts overturned the decision on grounds that a fetus was not a person. The state supreme court restored the conviction. (Whitner's attorneys plan to appeal...
Receiving: Col-Lundberg 3-28, Whitner 2-24, Peer 1-5, Myers 1-26, Kissinger 1-38, Wilcox 1-15, Scholtz 1-8; Har-Skelton 5-106, Eitzman 4-24, Chupaila 3-54, Jones, D. 2-21, Patterson...
...Medley Relay--1. Penn State (Riedel, Mokse, Maximo, Whitner), 1:52, 13:2. Harvard (Calvert, Wilson, Greis, Black), 1:54.74 (Harvard record) 1000 Freestyle--1 Floyd (H), 10:29. 77:2. Post (P), 10:29. 82:3. Gildan (H), 10:39.83. 100 Individual Medley--1. Quinn (P), 1:01. 33:2. Smith (H). 1:02. 24: 3. Welsh (P), 1:02.95 200 Freestyle--1. Tomokins (P), 1:54.57:2. Calvert(H), 1:56.68:Floyd(H) 1:57.65. 100 Backstroke--1, Riedel(P), 1:01.34:2 Sullivan (P), 1:03.59:3 Rentoumis (H), 1:04,04, 100 Breaststroke--1. Leeshock...
Having proved its point, the Whitner group is now cutting down its activities. Besides, says the leader, "there are so many people on welfare who are actually desperate that we don't have the conscience to continue...
What the effect of the strange crusade will be is still uncertain. Local authorities are already overburdened just keeping pace with new applicants, who in some counties average more than 200-a day. Says Robert Hannon, Chairman of the Alameda County Committee on welfare: "In essence, Mrs. Whitner's charges are correct. I'm grossly dissatisfied with the whole program." The fact that officials did not stop the Dirty Dozen even after finding out about their capers indicates both their apathy toward welfare cheaters and the difficulties of curbing their profit-making activities...