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		<title>Frustrations and Falsehoods with the Freedom of Information Act:  Investigating the Death of John Gray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rutland man John Gray provided information to law enforcement that a Vermont Assistant U.S. Attorney had ties to organized crime.  A short time later, Gray was sent to federal prison on marijuana conspiracy charges.  Due to a serious heart condition, he was designated to the Federal Medical Center in Carville, Louisiana.  There he was stabbed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truevermont.com/2009/02/24/frustrations-and-falsehoods-with-the-freedom-of-information-act-investigating-the-death-of-john-gray/</link>
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		<title>Lambda Iota Forfeiture Update:  Nothing to Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent check of the U.S. District Court records shows no activity on this case since January 7th, the date on which proceedings were stayed pending the resolution of the criminal cases.  Unfortunately, the United States government now has custody of the property, although &#8220;reform&#8221; legislation prevents it from evicting the residents.  Actually, according to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truevermont.com/2008/12/26/lambda-iota-forfeiture-update-nothing-to-report/</link>
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		<title>The Brillon Case Continues:  The Government Appeals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unhappy with the Vermont Supreme Court&#8217;s decision vacating Michael Brillon&#8217;s conviction for excessive pretrial delays, the Bennington County State&#8217;s Attorney is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.  The essence of the matter, presented in previous posts, is that the government blames Mr. Brillion for the delays, in part for firing attorneys that confessed they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truevermont.com/2008/12/26/the-brillon-case-continues-the-government-appeals/</link>
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		<title>Another Curious Criminal Sentencing Scheme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Considering the public outcry over the drug-related murder of Carlos Vasquez this spring, complete with a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in Rutland, it is curious that a similar incident involving local men provoked no such outcry.  In November of 2005 four Fair Haven men took a gun to Burlington with the intent to rob [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truevermont.com/2008/09/15/another-curious-criminal-sentencing-scheme/</link>
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		<title>Familiar Threats from the Politicians, But Are the Criminals Listening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following drug related violence in Rutland, much of it associated with out of state drug dealers, the knee-jerk reaction by Governor Douglas and Sen. Kevin Mullin was a call to increase criminal penalties, but no one is apparently looking at what&#8217;s happening with the penalties already on the books.  A case in point is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truevermont.com/2008/09/12/familiar-threats-from-the-politicians-but-are-the-criminals-listening/</link>
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		<title>Getting Away with Murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent roundup of alleged drug dealers in Central Vermont was the supposed pushback to drug related violence &#8211; particularly the fatal shooting of Carlos Vasquez in an apartment near the Rutland Middle School.  According to one account Ramel Ramos and Vasquez intended to put rival drug dealer Javon Shelton out of business.  Shelton was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truevermont.com/2008/06/27/getting-away-with-murder/</link>
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		<title>The Big Rutland Roundup &#8211; State or Federal Prosecution?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago law enforcement responded to recent drug-related violence by rounding up over three dozen people in the Rutland region. Newspaper accounts have some prosecuted by state or local authorities, and others by the federal government, but no explanation has been given as to why all were not prosecuted by the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truevermont.com/2008/06/19/the-big-rutland-roundup-state-or-federal-prosecution/</link>
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		<title>Sound Familiar?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to strict firearms laws, few Japanese possess them.  However, the lack of guns hasn&#8217;t prevented either murder or mayhem; it&#8217;s just changed the weapons of choice.  Tomohiro Kato recently ran down a crowd of shoppers with a two-ton rented truck, and then began stabbing the victims and people in the crowd of onlookers, leaving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truevermont.com/2008/06/10/sound-familiar/</link>
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		<title>Assuring Quality Health Care, Florida-Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roger Bean, 61, of West Palm Beach was a retired denture maker from Texas who tried to help his neighbors by supplying inexpensive dentures.  Following an anonymous tip, police raided Bean&#8217;s garage and confiscated his equipment.  Although he had been licensed in Texas, Florida had no similar program and dentures had to be obtained through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truevermont.com/2008/04/30/assuring-quality-health-care-florida-style/</link>
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		<title>More Brillon Fallout &#8211; Much Ado About Nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Vermont Supreme Court vacated the convictions of Michael Brillon due the nearly three years it took to bring him to trial.  In that time, Brillon went through six attorneys for various reasons.  Now, Vermont&#8217;s most notorious murder suspects, Christopher Williams and Brian Rooney are asking for new lawyers, prompting expressions of grave concern from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truevermont.com/2008/04/23/more-brillon-fallout-much-ado-about-nothing/</link>
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