Letter: System is unfair to witness in Zane Floyd case

Sunday, Feb. 20, 2000 | 9:52 a.m.

What a fascinating story. A 19-year-old kid comes from Oregon, drawn like a moth to the flame to the lights of Vegas. She has no job skills, but she's pretty and she winds up "making like $200 or $300 a night" working as a topless dancer. Everything is going along fine until Metro pulls her work card for a marijuana bust back in Oregon when she was 18.

Now she can't work. That leads to an outcall service. That leads to Zane Floyd who beats, rapes and brutalizes her. That leads to her being a material witness in Floyd's murder trial and all the legal pressures that go with it. That leads to her being a fugitive wanted by the law. That leads to her return (voluntarily) when she finds out she's wanted. That leads to her being thrown in jail where she now sits.

All because she lost her work card.

Don't we all feel safer knowing that vicious predators like Traci Carter can't hold a work card? Isn't it a wonderful system? Aren't we all enormously proud of it?

KNIGHT ALLEN

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