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BILL CAPOSSERE, who's been with us since June 2007, lives in Rochester NY, where he is an English adjunct by day and a writer by night. His essays and stories have appeared in Colorado Review, Rosebud, Alaska Quarterly, and other literary journals, along with a few anthologies, and been recognized in the "Notable Essays" section of Best American Essays. His children's work has appeared in several magazines, while his plays have been given stage readings at GEVA Theatre and Bristol Valley Playhouse. When he's not writing, reading, reviewing, or teaching, he can usually be found with his wifeammunition.  Stanley ignored the agents' shouted command, "Freeze, FBI," and the agents had to physically restrain him.  The agents found drugs and drug paraphernalia in a number of places in the apartment, including the bedroom where Stanley was found, in quantities indicating that the apartment was used as a crack-packaging factory.  Stanley thereafter dressed in clothes from the bedroom, including a shirt taken from a dresser drawer.  When asked for his home address, Stanley gave the address of the building.


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In his defense, Stanley offered the evidence of his brother, Earlous Tripp, who had pled guilty to drug trafficking and was cooperating with the government in other cases.  Tripp testified that the apartment and the gun belonged to him, admitted that he used the