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The streets of Albany may appear to be safe during the day, but this does not mean that they are safe at night. Students and residents that live close to the Saint Rose security building on 340 Western Avenue are protected by Saint Rose security.
There is a lot of effort that goes into keeping the area safe. Steve Stella is the director of the department of safety and security at Saint Rose and has seen many changes since he began working for Saint Rose security. “I started here in 2003. We have implemented cctv cameras, card access, shuttle service, increased the escort service and expanded the emergency blue light callbox program. We also offer personal and fire safety presentations throughout the year,” he said.  The escort service allows students and staff to be escorted to any location on campus. This service is available 24 hours a day. The shuttle services are available to students that need to be transported off campus.

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Of course, chasing women while on the job is one thing. Abducting a woman is something else entirely. If Hollis had legitimate reason to pick the woman up, he should have recorded that reason and called his command desk. He didn’t. Instead, according to the victim, he drove her around the city in his cruiser, and when she asked to be let go, he said, “What can you do for me if I let you?”
Then, she says, he pulled up to the warehouse off Tchoupitoulas and raped her.
The woman is an admitted former prostitute with drug convictions. Regan, Hollins’ attorney, leaped at that and described her to the jury as a whore and trash. Prosecutors said that Hollins deliberately chose a victim with a past. That way, it would be her word against his.
That’s the choice jurors had: Believe an erstwhile drug-dealing prostitute or believe the New Orleans police officer whose cruiser should have been painted XXX. They decided that Hollins “attempted” to rape her, which means they believed her more than they believed him.

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Chicago Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Yes, the Second City has been in the discussion to land a, wait for it, second NBA franchise.There may not be a huge appetite for another team in Chicago, but this is a possibility because of the city’s capability to handle another team.  The population and sports fever are more than enough for another NBA team, and the United Center is capable of housing another team.The NBA cash cow would love to throw another team into the No. 3 TV market in the United States, with the team most certainly to get a big broadcast deal.Still, there are other cities that are hungry and prepared to get a team, and those cities should be the priority for the league. Chicago’s odds of landing the Hornets: 25 to one. 
The idea of putting a team in Sin City is very attractive to David Stern.  The revenue, the betting, the p.r. for the league: these are all virtually untapped in Las Vegas.
There might reasons that the Vegas pro sports frontier hasn’t been settled.  The gambling, the distractions, the strip clubs, the heightened potential to get in trouble with the law and so much more.

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Marijuana, as well as other crimes, has a new policy in Louisiana that is meant to be beneficial to the court system.
The New Orleans City Council has decided that simple marijuana possession is now only a municipal offense, not a case for the district attorney. This was based upon a unanimous vote. This means officers will have the option to issue a summons rather than making an arrest, according to NOLAcitycouncil.com.
Before this change, offenders were arrested and taken to central lockup for booking.
This change in policy is intended to unclog the courts of small crimes, thus leaving time and resources to tackle large crimes.
The four crimes that are now under this new policy are: the possession of marijuana or a synthetic cannabinoid, prostitution, fleeing from an officer and interfering with an investigation.

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The woman testified that after Hollins’ partner left his shift early, Hollins took her to a warehouse and raped her, with his gun and stun gun at arm’s length.
Hollins, 47, is scheduled to be sentenced next week. Wednesday’s Times-Picayune reported he faces up to 50 years on each count.
Hollins had been indicted for aggravated rape and aggravated kidnapping.
The defense hammered the victim’s character and trustworthiness during the trial.
Hollins’ attorney, Martin Regan, listed several instances when the Mississippi woman said differing things on the stand and to police, such as how many days she had been in New Orleans before the attack. The woman also vacillated about whether she was a prostitute, the extent of her criminal record and whether she had sex that day, Regan said. The woman also resisted saying whether she had filed a lawsuit against Hollins and told different stories

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Williams was born in Mississippi, lived several years in St. Louis, and attended three different colleges before moving to New Orleans as a young adult. He found a home and a muse in this city of iconoclasts.
In his latter years, Williams moved between residences in Key West, Fla., and New York City, where he died at the age of 71, but he always maintained a home in New Orleans.
So, the festival founders decided, “Who better to honor than Tennessee Williams?” Laborde says. “Starting off, it was kind of the Mickey and Judy ‘let’s put on a show.’ We started with practically nothing.”
Twenty-five years later, they have plenty of everything.
Serious Williams scholars can attend a conference that runs concurrently and hear papers with such titles as “A Sort of Self-Destroying, Legal Prostitution: The Whoredom of a Loveless Marriage in Williams’s Work” and “Diagnosing Tennessee: Williams and His Diseases.”

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Federal lawsuit challenges sex offender registration for prostitutes
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Louisiana is the only state that has separate laws depending on what kind of sex acts a prostitute engages in, according to the lawsuit. Prostitution can cover any kind of sex for money. But people accused of offering oral or anal sex for money can be charged with “crime against nature by solicitation.”
The Legislature in the last session changed the penalties for “crime against nature by solicitation” to make the first offense a misdemeanor, which matches the potential sentence for first-offense prostitution. Previously, a first conviction of crime against nature was a felony.
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With the exception of crime against nature, all of the other offenses that require registration as a sex offender in Louisiana involve some kind of force, coercion, or exploitation of a minor, according to the lawsuit. These offenses include, for example, rape, aggravated kidnapping of a child or prostitution of a person under 17.

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The woman testified that after Hollins’ partner left his shift early, Hollins took her to a warehouse and raped her, with his gun and stun gun at arm’s length.
Hollins, 47, is scheduled to be sentenced next week. He faces up to 50 years on each count.
Hollins had been indicted for aggravated rape and aggravated kidnapping.
The defense hammered the victim’s character and trustworthiness during the trial.
Hollins’ attorney, Martin Regan, listed several instances when the Mississippi woman said differing things on the stand and to police, such as how many days she had been in New Orleans before the attack. The woman also vacillated about whether she was a prostitute, the extent of her criminal record and whether she had sex that day, Regan said. The woman also resisted saying whether she had filed a lawsuit against Hollins and told different stories about whether she was handcuffed during her rape, Regan said.

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But Regan spent much of his argument examining the life of the alleged victim and discrepancies in her testimony.
“If you say, ‘Maybe she’s telling the truth, maybe she’s not,’” that qualifies as reasonable doubt, Regan said. “If you find she has lied to you, you can disregard her entire testimony.”
Regan then listed several times the woman said differing things on the stand and to police, such as how many days the 40-year-old Mississippi woman had been in New Orleans before the attack. The alleged victim also vacillated about whether or not she was a prostitute, the extent of her criminal record and whether she had had sex earlier that day, Regan said. The woman also resisted saying whether she had filed a lawsuit against Hollins and told different stories about whether she was handcuffed while she was raped, Regan said.

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Barconey and another female accompanied the victim to his hotel room where a verbal altercation ensued. The argument escalated at which time Barconey retrieved a knife and stabbed the victim several times to the hand and shoulder. Barconey then fled the scene.
Barconey also uses the alias, “Foxy.”                 
Lakisha Barconey is presently on probation for theft and unauthorized use of an access card over $500 until 2013.  Barconey was previously on parole for theft and simple escape and has prior arrest(s) for prostitution (2010, 2009, 2008, 2007), theft (2007, 1998), attachments (2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2000, 1999), misrepresentation of name (2009), access device fraud (2009, 2008, 2007), possession of stolen property under $100 (2009, 1994, 1993), possession of stolen property $100 to $500 (2001, 1994, 1991), traffic violations (2009), warrants (2008, 2006, 2001), assault (1997),  battery (1997), begging (2007), obstructing public place (2007), open container (2006), simple escape (2001), flight from an officer (1994) and curfew violation (1994).

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