corner boy n.— «Another dealer, “Donnie,” 16, and his corner crew laughed when asked about murder. Donnie is proud of being a “corner boy.” He said he and his pals sell crack around Clearfield and Hartville streets...
pick up n.— «Eric Kinton, a man who by his own account has a shady past, testified Frazier approached him a few months before the murder of Christa Worthington to discuss a “pick up” at an undisclosed home. “It is street...
hooping n.— «While prison officials wouldn’t confirm, sources say the purported leader of the Galloway Boys, Tyshan Riley, who is facing multiple murder charges, was recently forced into segregation after officials found a six-inch knife...
throw under the bus v. phr.— «Dees said he talked to Hood after he bonded out of the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center on Sept. 26, 1990, and warned him “that he was being thrown under the bus by Jennifer Reali.” But he...
lead snowstorm n.— «While conducting the internal autopsy, Comfort testified she found fragments of the rifle bullet throughout the body, which forensic pathologists commonly refer to as a “lead snowstorm.”» —“Forensic pathologist...
elective cinema n.— «Ross’s friend Walter Salles, who directed “The Motorcycle Diaries,” and who first suggested the Brazil trip to him, coined the term “elective cinema”: in the cyclorama you’d have to choose which section of the screen...