The Virginian-Pilot
THE LEDGER-STAR
SERVING SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AND NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
: Sunday, June 30, 1996
- AS A CIVILIAN, SELLAND WILL KEEP UP THE BATTLE
- MAN FIGHTS TO KEEP TEENS OFF DEATH ROW
THREE OF JON BABINEAU'S CLIENTS WERE 16 WHEN THEY WERE CHARGED WITH CAPITAL
MURDER. THE CASES ARE UNRELATED, EXCEPT THAT THE NORFOLK ATTORNEY WILL SPEND
THE SUMMER TRYING TO KEEP ALL THREE YOUNG MEN FROM FACING THE DEATH PENALTY.
BABINEAU, A FORMER POLICE OFFICER, IS DRAWN TO THE CASES BY THEIR INTENSITY
AND THEIR HIGH STAKES.
- AIRMAN ALIVE, BUT IN COMA, AFTER BOMB
``MY HEART TURNED INTO PIECES. I SAID, `MY SON IS DEAD. THEY KILLED HIM. THEY
KILLED HIM.' '' THAT WAS MARIA TAYLOR'S REACTION ON WEDNESDAY WHEN THE HAMPTON
WOMAN WAS TOLD HER SON, SENIOR AIRMAN PAUL A. BLAIS, LEFT, WAS ``UNACCOUNTED
FOR'' AFTER THE BOMBING IN SAUDI ARABIA - AND FEARED DEAD. SATURDAY, THE FEARS
OF BLAIS' FAMILY WERE TEMPERED WHEN THEY RECEIVED A CALL TELLING THEM BLAIS
WAS, THOUGH SERIOUSLY INJURED, IN FACT ALIVE.
- VMI HAS SHOWN IT CAN ADAPT; WOMEN WILL BE ACCEPTED, SCHOLAR SAYS
ANTHROPOLOGIST SPENT TWO YEARS STUDYING THE RITUALS OF THE SCHOOL.
by SS