The lawyer said his client had left his office after a two-hour conference when FBI agents pulled over the car in which she was riding with her mother and 2 children, ages 11 weeks and 4 years. They knew the children were there. It was done in a way that had to have been calculated to inflict pain. Chris Swecker, who heads the FBI office in North Carolina, said there was no intent to inflict pain on Deidra Lane. And that's the way it was done.
Subjects are always handcuffed when they are arrested.
Swecker described Lane as polite and cooperative during the arrest. It was unclear how Lane's latest legal trouble would affect her bond in the murder case. She has denied the claim, and said in a 911 call after the shooting that her husband had choked and hit her. Democratic state Rep. Chris Liese of Maryland Heights said at a workshop on the death penalty during the annual Missouri CAtholic Conference Assembly Sept. 2 that he was in favor of the death penalty until Pope John Paul II's visit to St. Louis in January 1999. He said that Gov. Mel Carnahan had just been told by a Vatican-based cardinal that the pope would personally ask the governor to spare the life of convicted killer Darrel Mease.