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Newshawk: Canadian Hawkforce: http://www.mapinc.org/cmap/
Webpage: http://drugsense.org/url/YEQe0bac
Pubdate: Mon, 29 Dec 2008
Source: Clarion-Ledger, The (Jackson, MS)
Copyright: 2008 The Clarion-Ledger
Contact: http://www.clarionledger.com/news/about/letters.html
Website: http://www.clarionledger.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/805
Bookmark: http://mapinc.org/people/Frank+Melton (Frank Melton)
MELTON: TERM 'CRACK HOUSE' UNACCEPTABLE?
U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan has ruled that Mayor Frank Melton
can't use the term "crack house" during his upcoming federal civil
rights trial in describing alleged illegal drug activity at the
duplex on Ridgeway Street that has been the center of his legal woes
for more than two years.
That ruling leads one to wonder just how Melton should refer to the
former residence in mounting his defense. What should he call it? A
fixer-upper? The House on Pooh Corner? Little House on the Prairie?
Melton, and his former police bodyguards Marcus Wright and Michael
Recio beat state charges in 2007 related to the raid using a defense
that largely rested on characterizing the house as a drug haven.
[Remainder snipped]
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom
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