May
17
2012
Fla. drug convict may get 24-year sentence tossed
May 16, 2012 19:47 GMT
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By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer
MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man convicted of crack cocaine offenses may get his conviction and 24-year sentence tossed out because of false testimony and tainted evidence.
Federal prosecutors and a defense attorney have recommended that the case be dismissed against 45-year-old Elroy Phillips. A Miami judge held a hearing Wednesday but did not immediately rule.
After his 2003 conviction, Phillips began his own investigation and uncovered that false records and untrue testimony were used against him. Evidence also was not turned over to the defense as required.
In addition, Phillips found that a former West Palm Beach police officer involved in the case was at the time also using and selling illegal drugs and engaging prostitutes.
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May
17
2012
… I have to have a factual basis for release,” Lenard said during a hearing. “I am not sold on his release.”
Judge Lenard gave Prosecutors and defense attorney Michael Zelman until May 31st to come up with she called a “joint stipulated” agreement with more details and evidence.
She said she could make a decision before that date if the agreement was submitted at an earlier date.
Zelman told Judge Lenard that the case against unfolded on April 6th, 2001 when former West Palm Beach officer Michael Gent claimed that Phillips had sold “$50 worth of crack cocaine” to an undercover officer.
“We are prepared now to go forward with evidence to show that Gent committed perjury,” said Zelman. Zelman said Gent was convicted of bribery in 2007 for shaking down an illegal massage parlor “that was a house of prostitution.”
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May
16
2012
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This Friday, May 4, 2012 frame grab taken from the Spanish radio station Cadena SER website shows Dania Londono Suarez during an interview at an undisclosed location. Nearly four weeks after the Secret Service prostitution scandal erupted, U.S. government investigators on Thursday, May 10, 2012, interviewed the Colombia prostitute at the center of the affair, which cost eight officers and supervisors their jobs and became an election-year embarrassment for the Obama administration. She voluntarily met with investigators at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, agency spokesman Edwin Donovan said. (AP Photo/Cadena SER)
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May
16
2012
Daily News: And for proof that an exclusive does not necessarily mean a good story, look no further than the cover of the News today, which brings us word that a year ago, and months before the Secret Service scandal in Colombia, Arthur Huntington (the agent who allegedly stiffed the prostitute in Cartagena, blowing the scandal up) had an affair with a woman from Canada.
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It took me a while to sort that out actually. There is a blown-up black-and-white photo of Huntington, with a red circle that says “FIRST PHOTO.” (Also red-top stuff: “FIRST PHOTO” means this is the first photo of Huntington to have emerged; not that the News is the first to publish it.) There’s a box with a red bar exclaiming the story an EXCLUSIVE, and an inset picture of the front page from April 20th, which carried a similar FIRST PHOTO of Cartagena prostitute Dania Suarez with a distinctly foreign-seeming red circle that read “WE BRING …
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May
16
2012
Set in the early 20th century, against the backdrop of the poverty of North-East Scotland, and the looming war, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), the eldest daughter of poor farmers barely making it, struggles for love amid hardship and family misfortune. After her mother, broken by a life of poverty and repeated child-birth, poisons herself and her new baby twins, the ever resilient young Chris must manage the farm. Subsequently she is forced to deal with father who has a stroke yet is eager to have an incestuous relationship with his daughter, compelling her to use all her wits to hold the family together and not lose the farm. Finally she finds love, only soon to see her new husband depart for the Great War. While all this goes on, she remains wedded to the farm, connected to a land about to be changed forever by the onset of technology and war.
Top model Deyn appeared as Aphrodite in Clash of the Titans and made her stage debut this year in François Archambault’s comedy, The Leisure Society. She’ll next be seen as a stripper in the English-language remake of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher, but this is her first leading film role.
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