Keystone Cops: Maybe You Shouldn’t Have

Keystone Cops is a daily look at crime, police, public safety and drug news. Homicide totals are unofficial.

• The Daily News follows the media horde to Michael Chitwood’s press conference in Upper Darby for the story about the newborn baby found in the trunk and wrote this lead: “Maybe the newborn boy took his last breaths in the cold trunk of the Volkswagen Beetle, his umbilical cord still attached. Maybe he was already dead when he was stuffed into a tote bag under bloody clothes and stashed in the car trunk.” Thanks, guys! [DN]

• Atlantic City Council will debate about and vote on only a partial smoking ban in casinos, with a giant, smoke-filled “smoking quadrant” in each casino. Sounds healthy. [AP/Camden Courier-Post]

• The “trial” — actually a degree-of-guilt hearing — of Brian Hall began yesterday. Hall admitted to police last year that he murdered a girl in 1987. [Daily News]

• Oh yea: State of the Union was last night. Meh. [Whitehouse.gov]