Shaquanda Cotton to be Released, Chicago Tribune Reports
The Chicago tribune is reporting, based on a statement from a Texas state representative about his advocacy, that Shaquanda Cotton will be freed in the near future.
Hat Tip to Howard Witt
, author of the Chicago Tribune article below, for his e-mail informing me of this development.
TRIBUNE UPDATE
Girl in Texas prison controversy to go free, lawmaker saysBy Howard Witt
Tribune senior correspondent
Published March 30, 2007, 1:09 PM CDTHOUSTON -- Shaquanda Cotton, the teenage black girl in the small east Texas town of Paris who was sent to prison for up to seven years for shoving a teacher's aide, will be freed soon, a senior Texas legislator confirmed today.
"She is going to be freed, I know that for a fact, either today or sometime next week," state Rep. Harold Dutton, chairman of the Texas legislature's juvenile justice committee, told the Tribune. "I told [prison officials] I wanted her out of there immediately. When I learned about this case, I thought, this case just looks so bad and smells so bad it made me hurt." Chicago Tribune
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Submitted by francislholland on 30 March 2007 - 7:01pm.
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Thanks for covering this. I only wish you hadn't made such an ass of yourself just before covering this. You probably would have gotten far more attention had people not learned to see you as the guy advocating that Elizabeth Edwards must die so Hillary Clinton can be annointed.