ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, July 18, 1996 TAG: 9607180081
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-9 EDITION: METRO
NEW YORK - Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer for the rock group Smashing Pumpkins who was arrested last week in New York on drug possession charges, has been fired, the remaining band members said in a statement Wednesday.
``Today we are very sorry to tell our friends and fans that we have decided to sever our relationship with our friend and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin,'' the statement says. ``For nine years we have battled with Jimmy's struggles with the insidious disease of drug and alcohol addiction. It has nearly destroyed everything we are and stand for. We have decided to carry on without him, and we wish him the best that we have to offer.''
Chamberlin, 32, was arrested Friday at a New York hotel and charged with heroin possession after the band's backup keyboardist, Jonathan Melvoin, was found dead in a hotel room apparently of a heroin overdose. Melvoin was 34. |- The New York Times
Rape counselor
wins court case
BOSTON - A rape crisis counselor who faced a jail threat for fighting to keep her client's records out of court won Wednesday when the state's highest court threw out the contempt order against her.
The Supreme Judicial Court, ruling in favor of Nassrine Farhoody, also tightened restrictions on when such records should be released in the future.
Farhoody won a reprieve from jail in March when a judge decided her appeal of a contempt of court order for failing to turn over the records deserved a full review.
Rape counseling records, the Judicial Court said in a unanimous ruling, ``are not particularly likely to contain information relevant and material to the question of an accused's innocence or guilt that will not be available from another source, such as a complainant's statement to police.''
In the future, defendants will have to filed a detailed motion with the judge explaining why the records are necessary. The judge should grant the motion only when the information cannot be found elsewhere.
A defense lawyer sought the records in the case of rape defendant David Fuller, 36, on grounds the records could help determine whether the woman's story is credible. Fuller is accused of raping a woman in July 1995. |- Associated Press
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