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Calvert County, MD–A Maryland woman accused of killing two of her adopted daughters and keeping their bodies in a freezer for months is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Calvert County for the abuse of a third girl.

Renee Bowman, 44, pleaded guilty in September to first-degree child abuse. She has a separate trial scheduled for February in Montgomery County on murder charges.

Bowman’s youngest adopted daughter was found wandering around her Lusby neighborhood in a blood-stained nightshirt after jumping from a window in September 2008. Authorities searched the home and found the frozen remains. Investigators concluded the two older girls had been killed in Montgomery County, where the family lived until the fall of 2007.

BALTIMORE — Mayor Sheila Dixon fought back tears as she announced her resignation and thanked her staff for its loyalty and hard work. She acknowledged that she made poor choices and that she “disappointed” herself and her constituents.

What she didn’t do was apologize or explain the actions that led to her downfall — her guilty plea on a perjury charge and her earlier conviction on a misdemeanor embezzlement charge.

Dixon’s resignation Wednesday ended a three-year tenure that began with promise but unraveled amid embarrassing allegations that she stole from the poor.

Her attorney characterized the plea deal as favorable — she will receive probation before judgment at her sentencing Feb. 4, the same day her resignation takes effect.

After she satisfies the terms of her probation — including a $45,000 charitable contribution and 500 hours of community service — the convictions will be wiped off her record and she’ll be free to run for public office again. The probation will last a minimum of two years, meaning she will be barred from running in the next citywide election in 2011.

Dixon, a 56-year-old Democrat, also gets to keep her city pension, which she would have had to forfeit with a conviction on her record.

“This is a result that makes a lot of sense for Miss Dixon and the city of Baltimore,” said Arnold M. Weiner, the mayor’s lead attorney. However, he added, “I think the people of Baltimore would have been better off if she’d been able to remain as mayor.”

Dixon’s plea and resignation caught observers by surprise. It came on a day when her attorneys were expected to argue a motion for a new trial.

Even as she pleaded guilty, Dixon showed signs of the defiant streak that characterized her yearlong battle against allegations that she stole gift cards intended for needy families and lied about thousands of dollars in presents from her former boyfriend, a developer who received tax breaks from the city.

In a brief meeting with reporters at City Hall, Dixon hinted that she still has not given her side of the story.

“I still can’t get into any details of the case because of some things that are very time-sensitive,” she said. “As soon as this is all over, I’d love to sit down.”

Earlier, in court, the mayor interrupted Deputy State Prosecutor Thomas M. McDonough as he read the from the statement of facts that supported her guilty plea to the perjury charge. McDonough was detailing how Dixon’s then-boyfriend, Ronald H. Lipscomb, gave her up to $2,000 in cash to help her pay her American Express bill after a shopping spree in Chicago in 2004.

“Your honor, those things are not true,” Dixon said.

Weiner later clarified that because Dixon was entering an Alford plea, she did not agree with the statement of facts but acknowledged that prosecutors would present such evidence and that she could be convicted.

Dixon had another unusual response in court when she was asked whether she was entering the plea voluntarily.

“Basically,” she said.

The perjury plea relates to her failure to disclose gifts from Lipscomb, who showered her with cash, fur coats and travel during their romance. A jury convicted her in December of embezzling about $500 worth of gift cards donated to the city by another developer, who thought they would be handed out to needy families.

State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh called the resolution of the case “a victory for justice.”

“I would hope it would send a message to politicians, that even if you commit what some would consider a minor offense, you’re going to lose your job,” he said.

Dixon has been mayor since January 2007, when she took over for fellow Democrat Martin O’Malley after he was elected governor. She was the first woman to hold the job, and she easily won election that fall to a full four-year term.

She won praise for her shrewd hires and firm, no-nonsense leadership. Violent crime declined during her tenure, with homicides hitting a 20-year low. She revamped the city’s trash collection service, resulting in a big increase in recycling, and she partnered with other big-city mayors to call for tougher penalties for gun offenders.

But she has long been dogged by questions about her ethics, and after her indictment in January 2009, her administration seemed to stall, with several key positions remaining unfilled for months.

City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a Democrat, will replace Dixon.

“This is a difficult and sad time for Baltimore,” Rawlings-Blake said in a statement. “My goal is making sure that the city is protected and that public safety and essential services are maintained.”

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JACKSON, Miss. – Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, is set to report to federal prison Monday for lying to the FBI in a judicial bribery investigation.

The next chapter of DeLaughter’s life, as inmate No. 12930-042, marks a long fall from the height of his legal career in 1994 when he was a prosecutor who helped convict a civil rights-era assassin for the 30-year-old murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evers.

The 55-year-old DeLaughter (deh-LAW’-ter) was to report to a federal prison camp in McCreary, Ky., by 2 p.m.

DeLaughter’s lawyer, Thomas Durkin of Chicago, told The Associated Press on Monday that he didn’t know exactly what time DeLaughter would report to prison, but that he wouldn’t be late. A prison official said he was not in custody as of about 10:45 a.m.

DeLaughter was sentenced to 18 months in November after pleading guilty to lying about secret conversations he had with a lawyer while presiding over a dispute between wealthy lawyers over legal fees. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors dropped conspiracy and mail fraud charges.

DeLaughter made a name for himself as an assistant district attorney when he helped put away Byron de la Beckwith for Evers’ 1963 murder.

He was appointed to the bench in 2002 and was later elected to the position.

His storied career ended with the same bribery scandal that toppled Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, chief architect of the multibillion-dollar tobacco litigation of the 1990s — which was depicted in the movie “The Insider,” starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe.

DeLaughter was presiding over a lawsuit in which a lawyer sued Scruggs for a bigger cut of millions in legal fees from asbestos litigation. Prosecutors said DeLaughter ruled in Scruggs’ favor in exchange for a promise that he’d be considered for a federal judgeship, with help from Scruggs’ high-powered connections.

DeLaughter ruled in 2006 that Scruggs didn’t owe the former partner anything more than a belated $1.5 million payment. The ruling was contrary to the findings of a special master appointed to weigh the evidence before trial.

DeLaughter pleaded guilty only to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with his old boss, former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters. Peters was accused of receiving $1 million to influence DeLaughter, but he cooperated in the investigation and was not charged.

Editor’s note: Glad to see this piece of trash race traitor get his due, though it’s a Federal white-collar “camp”. These “lawyers” prosecute easy targets like “evil white supremecists”  to further their careers. Here’s proof. Notice his “attorney” is the same pile human excrement that handled Matt Hale’s case.

AMERICA: The rapists were only put on probation, with the judge saying the crime was ‘waiting to happen’, writes LARA MARLOWE

A YEAR after the crime, Séamus T’s voice still quivers when he recalls how
he found his daughter Erin, then 15, lying on the roadside on the night of
January 3rd, 2009.

“Daddy, Daddy, get them off me,” she kept moaning. The girl was
semi-conscious, and was soaking wet because her assailants had put her
under a shower to wash vomit and menstrual blood off her after they
gang-raped her.

Séamus T, an Irishman who left Dublin 25 years ago, continues his job as
an executive in a mechanical contracting firm, but he has spent much of
the past year seeking justice for Erin.

The ordeal started as a cosy reunion of three high-school girls after the
holidays. Séamus T dropped his daughter off at an apartment in
Gaithersburg, Maryland, at 8.30pm, and was to have picked her up three
hours later.

Boys showed up at the party. “They gave her ‘jungle juice’, 100 per cent
grain alcohol,” Séamus T explains. Doctors at Shady Grove hospital later
found Erin had almost three times the legal limit in her blood.

Three teenagers, then aged 16 and 17, planned the rape. One waited in the
bathroom while the other two dragged Erin in. When the district attorney
read through the medical report at a seven-hour hearing on September 30th,
Erin’s family heard how the attackers tore flesh on three of the girl’s
body orifices. She banged her head when she fell against the bath tub, and
was covered in bruises.

Had the three young men not boasted of their crime, they would not have
been identified, because Erin cannot remember the rape. They were arrested
in late February, spent a couple of months in jail, and were freed pending
the hearing.

Erin was taunted by other students, who accused her of “snitching”’ on the
rapists. The girl was so traumatised that she slept with her mother or
older sister until she went to live with relatives in Nevada, at her
request.

The case shifted from adult to juvenile court, and Séamus T learned in
September that two of the three rapists were back at Magruder High School.
He filed a complaint with the board of education, and succeeded in having
them transferred.

“My daughter was the only white kid at the party,” Séamus T says.

“I don’t think the attack was racially motivated, but there were racial
and class undertones in the courtroom. On one side you had the three
rapists, an aunt and two single mothers, all African-Americans. On the
other side, everyone was white and middle class.”

Montgomery county circuit court judge Steven Salant so enraged Séamus T
that he filed a complaint with the Maryland Commission on Judicial
Disabilities, the body that disciplines judges, on the grounds his
daughter “was not treated with dignity and respect” as required by the
state constitution.

Salant did not respond to The Irish Times’s request for comment, which was
made through the court’s spokesman.

Séamus T says Salant blamed the victim and made excuses for the rapists,
who he sentenced to probation only. As recounted by the Gaithersburg
Gazette newspaper, the judge described the gang-rape as “horrific”, but
focused on Erin’s behaviour on the night of the party.

The victim was drunk and “engaged in risky and provocative behaviour” such
as sitting on people’s laps and talking about “hooking up”, Salant said in
court. “This was a disaster waiting to happen . . . There was a dynamic at
work here.

“There were things going on here. It doesn’t make the respondents any less
worthy of blame, but what it does mean is I have to determine whether what
we have here is sexual predators or respondents who . . . did not get that
when a girl is intoxicated and presents herself in that manner you do not
take advantage.”

“We were devastated as a family. We were destroyed,” says Séamus T.

“We went to court expecting some compassion. The system is upside down and
backwards. The judge was worried about the rapists staying in school,
getting evaluated, getting counselling and transportation. Everything is
lavished on them. Nobody knocked on my door and said, ‘I’ll show you
through the system’.”

Séamus T’s appeals to first lady Michelle Obama, Maryland governor Martin
O’Malley and state attorney John McCarthy have gone unanswered. He was
treated with kindness by the Irish Embassy, which promised to intervene if
he felt he was not being treated as a US citizen would be.

The state legislature has provided the most hope of redress.

Kathleen Dumais, a Maryland state delegate, and Nancy King, a Maryland
state senator, have taken up the case. Dumais is drafting legislation that
would ban juvenile sex offenders from attending normal public schools and
place their names on a register. If passed, it may be called Erin’s law.

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Economic impact could reach $22 million in 3 years; foes try to sway Congress, courts

By Tim Craig

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The District was on the verge Tuesday of becoming the sixth place in the country to legalize same-sex marriage after the council gave final approval to its bill allowing the unions.

The legislation would allow gay couples from anywhere in the country to marry in the city. Those couples who live in the District would be entitled to all rights afforded to heterosexual married couples under District laws.

Although a final signature on the bill by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) could come by the end of the week, same-sex marriage opponents vowed to step up their effort to get Congress or a court to block the initiative during the 30-day congressional review period.

The 11 to 2 council decision, which caps a nearly year-long debate, set off a wave of excitement across the gay community, both locally and nationally. “In many ways, this is the final prize,” said council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), one of two people on the council who are openly gay.

According to an analysis by the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, more than 10,000 same-sex couples from across the country could get married in the District over the next three years if the measure becomes law.

The analysis, created in the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s historic council vote, estimates that 2,000 gay couples who live in the District will marry shortly after the law takes effect. But the bulk of the weddings, which could pump millions of dollars into the regional economy, would probably be out-of-state couples unable to marry in their own states, according to the analysis, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post. It concludes that at least $5 million, and perhaps as much as $22 million, would be generated by same-sex weddings in the District over the next three years.

Local and national gay rights leaders note that opponents face a difficult fight: Both the Democratic-controlled House and Senate and President Obama would all have to block the legislation, which is unlikely.

But council member David A. Catania (I-At Large), the bill’s sponsor and the other openly gay member on the council, cautioned that Congress also could unravel the measure through budget maneuvers in future years.

“There is no question: We are going to have to be defending it and defending it and defending it until the other side realizes they are losing more votes by being tethered to the past,” Catania said.

Several opponents of same-sex marriage warned that the celebrations were premature. They are seeking a public vote on the issue, and some are meeting with members of Congress on Wednesday.

“God’s war has just started,” Bob King, a community activist who lives in Northeast, said a few minutes after the vote. “Shame on them. We’re going to get to the ballot box through either the courts or the Congress. So tell everyone: Don’t let the marriage licenses start flowing.”

Still, same-sex marriage supporters heralded the council’s action, saying it helps the movement rebound from the stinging defeat suffered two weeks ago when the New York Senate rejected same-sex marriage.

“This is a place people come to see the Constitution and understand what it means to be equal, so symbolically this means a great deal,” said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights group that co-sponsored a party with the council Tuesday night.

Separate Research Examines Impact on Prince George’s County Schools

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Simultaneous studies, released this week by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), document the true costs of illegal immigration in Maryland and demonstrate strong voter objections to the burdens placed on them by illegal immigration. The price tag associated with providing education, health care and incarceration of criminal illegal aliens is at least $1.3 billion a year, finds The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Marylanders. The impact is clearly recognized by Maryland voters. A new Pulse Opinion Research poll of 1,000 likely voters across the state found that, by a large margin, Marylanders believe that illegal immigration is harming their state.

The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Marylanders found that taxpayers spend:

• $1.1 billion a year to educate illegal immigrant children and the U.S. born children of illegal immigrants.
• $167 million a year on unreimbursed health care for illegal aliens.
• $29 million a year to incarcerate criminal illegal aliens.
• The total represents an annual cost to each of Maryland’s native-born headed households of $625.

The cost study is based on an estimate that the illegal alien population in Maryland is now 250,000 persons. The illegal alien population of Maryland has grown exponentially during this decade, nearly quadrupling since 2000.

In a separate report English Learners and Immigration: A Case Study in Prince George’s County, Maryland, FAIR examines the impact of mass immigration in local schools in Prince George’s County. Because of large-scale legal and illegal immigration, the county has seen its non-English proficient student population grow from 7,064 in 2004 to 13,825 today. Programs to teach immigrant students English cost the county more than $66 million a year.

The Pulse Opinion Research poll found that:

• 73% of Maryland voters say illegal immigration has a negative impact on the state. Only 20% believe it has a positive impact on Maryland.
• 77% of Maryland voters believe illegal aliens have a negative impact on the state budget, versus only 15% who believe their impact is positive.
• 65% of Maryland voters believe that illegal immigration harms the state’s schools. Only 18% believe illegal immigration has had a beneficial effect on education.
• 55% believe illegal immigration should be reduced through better enforcement of immigration laws. Only 36% of Maryland voters favor amnesty or legalization for current illegal aliens.

“Voters in Maryland, like voters everywhere, want their elected officials in Washington and Annapolis to protect their interests, their jobs, and their tax dollars from the impact of mass illegal immigration,” said Dan Stein, President of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). “The failure of government at all levels to institute and enforce sensible immigration policies is costing Marylanders jobs, billions in tax dollars, and their children the opportunity to get the quality education they need and deserve. At a time when state lawmakers are slashing budgets, spending on illegal immigrants in Maryland continues to rise over the strong objection of voters.”

The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Marylanders, English Learners and Immigration: A Case Study in Prince George’s County, Maryland and a summary of the Pulse Opinion Research results are available at www.fairus.org.

(CNN) — A Salvadoran immigrant, backed by two immigrants’ rights organizations, is suing the sheriff’s office in Frederick County, Maryland, and federal immigration officials, claiming that she was unconstitutionally interrogated and detained last year because of her Hispanic ethnicity.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court, Roxana Orellana Santos says that two Frederick County deputies improperly questioned her about her immigration status after they spotted her sitting on a curb, eating lunch. She is seeking compensatory damages of at least $1 million, according to the lawsuit.

The suit also names federal officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement as defendants.

According to the complaint, the deputies had no probable cause to question Orellana Santos, who didn’t speak much English and could not communicate well with the officers, about her immigrant status. She was detained for five weeks without charges before being released, the court document states. The incident happened in on October 7 of last year; she was held by federal immigration authorities who released her on humanitarian grounds on November 13, 2008.

“Despite having committed no criminal offense under Maryland law, Ms. Orellana Santos was detained, taken into custody and subsequently transferred to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” the complaint alleges.

Repeated calls for comment to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office were not immediately returned.

Her detention by immigration authorities suggests that Orellana Santos possibly was held for being in the country illegally, but her attorney, John C. Hayes, would not confirm her immigration status.

“We’re not commenting on that at all,” Hayes told CNN.

Orellana Santos had given the deputies a Salvadoran national identification card in hopes of appeasing the officers, Hayes said.

Despite the language barrier between Orellana Santos and the deputies, the officers arrested her, according to the complaint.

At issue is a nationwide federal agreement with local law enforcement agencies that allows trained local officers to enforce federal immigration laws in certain instances.

Under the arrangement, known as a 287(g) agreement, local officers are limited to asking about immigration status to instances where a crime is being committed. But in Orellana Santos’ case, the officers had no reason to arrest her, the complaint states.

Furthermore, the two deputies who arrested her were not trained or certified in the proper procedures, as stipulated in the agreement, court documents say.

In addition to attorney Hayes, two immigrants’ rights groups, — CASA de Maryland and LatinoJustice PRLDEF — are representing Orellana Santos.

While the current case is about a single incident, Jose Perez, an attorney for LatinoJustice, told CNN that it draws attention to the “misguided efforts” of 287(g) agreements.

“This evidence shows all the reasons why this program is wrong,” Perez said.

Greg Weeks, associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, who has followed the debate over the use of 285(g), said there’s a disconnect between local and federal authorities that makes the arrangement fail.

Federal authorities devised the partnerships as a way to deport criminals who were in the country illegally, freeing up prison space and court resources, Weeks told CNN.

But at the local level, the goal of law enforcement in some places is to expel undocumented immigrants, period, he said.

The result is an environment where local officials find themselves profiling potential illegal immigrants, creating a climate of fear among the Latino population, Weeks said.

“What this case shows is that people are being picked up for any reason,” Weeks said. “There is not supposed to be any profiling at all.”

Perez said that profiling is what happened in the case of Orellana Santos.

“This is only the tip of the iceberg,” he said. “We’re going to see more as more people come forward.”

The lawsuit is not the first time the 287(g) agreements have been in the spotlight.

Last month, federal authorities renewed such an agreement with Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Jose Arpaio, but with limitations.

Under the umbrella of the agreement, Arpaio’s deputies conducted street-level enforcement of immigration laws that typically fall to federal officers. The sheriff also checked the immigration status of everyone booked into his jail. Arpaio’s strategy was scrutinized by critics who accused the sheriff’s office of racial profiling.

The new agreement allowed for the continuation of the jailhouse checks, but put an end to the street stops.