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To: AugustWest who wrote (21078)	4/27/1998 1:22:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

We live in a cold and callous world. This, from excite.com: --------------------------------------- Oddly Enough Updated 10:58 AM ET April 27, 1998 Betting on death row executions? TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida's governor ordered a probe into allegations that lawyers for death row inmates made $5 wagers on whether prisoners slated for death would be executed, a state spokeswoman says. Gov. Lawton Chiles asked state investigators and the Florida Bar to determine the truth of allegations against attorneys in the Tampa office of the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel (CCRC), the state agency that represents death row inmates, Chiles's spokeswoman April Herrle said. Officials were trying to determine if lawyers began an office pool in March and took $5 wagers on the executions of Leo Jones, Gerald Stano, Judy Buenoano and Daniel Remeta, all of whom died in Florida's electric chair during a nine-day period in March. "When the governor heard about this he was very concerned and he requested that the entities that have jurisdiction over the CCRCs to review the case," Herrle said. "If the allegations are true, this is outrageous behavior." Chief Assistant Mike Reiter of the Tampa office said no money was collected or exchanged hands, a claim refuted by a private attorney working with Reiter who said she was there when the bets took place, officials said. Roger Maas, executive director of the Commission on the Administration of Justice in Capital Cases, which oversees the CCRC offices, said Friday that he was in the middle of an investigation and would likely complete his work Monday. He would not comment on his preliminary findings. Reiter and others have suggested that the incident was a harmless office joke gone awry, officials said. "Office humor is one thing," Herrle said. "But if this is true, it was way over the bounds of appropriate, professional conduct."

To: AugustWest who wrote (21078)	4/29/1998 1:36:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

August, I am a little confused about just which recent shooting incident to which you are referring. The one where the student blew the teacher away during the last dance didn't kill any students, as I recall. The teacher's name is Gillette. Is that the one? I am not sure that it is possible to tell THAT much about someone else's family from a distance, even if they seem to have strong family values. Parents may be preoccupied, working hard to survive, and not notice a troubled young teen. The family may be upstanding in the community, but with a cold and undemonstrative father, or one parent who is abusive behind the scenes. A child may have been sexually molested, and not gotten therapy for it, and may be very, very angry at the world. There are many, many ways a family can be dysfunctional. And certainly, many high school students who might have settled something with an angry note passed in class, or a fist fight, now blow away everyone they can. I think there is a terrible emergency in America, but unless there is a very recent killing, it all fades into the background quickly. I do suspect that as time goes on, you will discover stuff about the child's family, or about the child, that you did not expect. Really healthy children from really healthy families do not do these things. Is there some indication of what really happened, or why, yet?