It is the same Black Man/Thirteen book.
The original looks like that (I hope it not a crime to type 2 sentences from a book here
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Quote:
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"From my records, it seems Mr. Marsalis is being held on a putative Dade County vice charge. And hasn't even been formally arraigned yet."
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I was curious what does
vice charge mean. Is it a legal term or has any other meaning. I mean what type of charges is vice charges. I think,
Mogui interpreted it correctly.
I think in this contest putative refers to vice charges. However, your explanation about why it cannot refer to county is very interesting
(Mine is intuitive, yours is sort of professional analysis). Although, Dade County doesn't exist as far as I understand so it could be that Mr. M is being held on imagined moral charges pressed on him by equally imagined county.