Drugs Michigan

Finally, Delores Strouse got fed up. The abandoned and decaying clapboard house at 15709 Chatham St. on Detroit's west side, which stood just two doors from her home, had become a haven for prostitution and drug trafficking. For nearly two years, Strouse and others in her working-class neighborhood had been complaining to city officials, pleading with them to tear the house down.

Finally, Delores Strouse got fed up. The abandoned and decaying clapboard house at 15709 Chatham St. on Detroit's west side, which stood just two doors from her home, had become a haven for prostitution and drug trafficking. For nearly two years, Strouse and others in her working-class neighborhood had been complaining to city officials, pleading with them to tear the house down.

He usually came to court in a rumpled black suit, carrying a tattered briefcase crammed with papers. With his long, unruly hair, attorney Thomas F. Maniscalco stood out in an Orange County courtroom. Now, he arrives in a yellow Orange County Jail jump suit, accused of masterminding the slayings of three people in Westminster almost eight years ago. Maniscalco, 43, and Daniel M.

The Supreme Court has been doing its part in the war on drugs. In more than a dozen rulings in the last four years, the high court has overturned lower court rulings that favored drug dealers who claimed their constitutional rights were violated during their arrest or trial. In scores of other cases, the court has just said "No" to appeals from convicted drug dealers, thereby upholding their convictions in lower courts.

In a case that is attracting widespread attention, an El Cajon woman has been charged with contributing to her infant son's death by ignoring her doctor's advice and taking illegal drugs during pregnancy.