{"id":3697,"date":"2008-08-11T08:49:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2008-08-11T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:49:15","slug":"paging_steven_levitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/paging_steven_levitt.html","title":{"rendered":"Paging Steven Levitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/08112008\/news\/regionalnews\/lead_paint_defense_123928.htm\">Interesting defense<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A young woman woke up in her Central Park West sublet in July 2007 to find her fire-escape window open and two 15-year-old boys standing over her bed. One of them was pointing a handgun at her head. <\/p>\n<p>Over the next few hours, the boys took turns raping the bound, gagged and terrified woman. They left, taking her laptop, cellphone, iPod, digital cameras and credit cards. <\/p>\n<p>Now the boy with the gun &#8212; Steven Vasquez, according to DNA and his own police confession &#8211; is hoping for a break. <\/p>\n<p>Vasquez&#8217;s lawyer says his client is mentally retarded due to childhood lead exposure, and she wants him tried in Family Court as a juvenile. <\/p>\n<p>Lead paint in the West 129th Street home he grew up in left Vasquez so brain damaged he is unable to read. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s basically the mental age of a kindergartner,&#8221; says his lawyer, Elsie Chandler, senior trial attorney with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2008\/may\/28\/science\/sci-lead28\">&#8220;Lead exposure in children linked to violent crime,&#8221; LA Times, May 28, 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting defense: A young woman woke up in her Central Park West sublet in July 2007 to find her fire-escape window open and two 15-year-old boys standing over her bed. One of them was pointing a handgun at her head. Over the next few hours, the boys took turns raping the bound, gagged and terrified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}