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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2007
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Former officers sent to prison
BY CARRIE ANTLFINGER ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILWAUKEE — Three white former police officers were sentenced to long prison terms Thursday for the off-duty beating of a biracial man, an attack that outraged the city and sent protesters into the streets.
A judge sentenced Jon Bartlett to 17 years and four months, with three years of supervision and $16,365 in restitution. Daniel Masarik was sentenced to 15 years and eight months, and Andrew Spengler received the same sentence.
Bartlett, 36,
Spengler, 28,
were convicted
with another
former officer
for taking part
in the beating
of Frank Jude
Jr. outside a
housewarming
party in
October 2004.
Bartlett, 36, Masarik, 27, and
Bartlett was the ringleader in the attack,
Jude wrote in a statement submitted to the court Thursday. Jude feared for his life and had hoped U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert would give Bartlett the maximum 20-year sentence, he wrote.
"You and your fellow police officer friends attempted to kill me and take my life," he wrote. "Mr. Bartlett, you are a disgrace, a disgrace to all police officers, and every public official in the world."
Bartlett apologized to Jude in court Thursday, but he stood by his claim that he had to deal with the unruly suspect.
civil rights and conspired to assault him while acting as officers. Officer Ryan Packard was acquitted of federal charges.
The trial is the second round in a case that has haunted Milwaukee. The three men were acquitted of most state charges by an all-white jury in April 2006, angering the community. Federal authorities filed the civil rights charges six months later.
"They caused him serious permanent physical injuries and mental injuries he and his family will have to deal with."
A federal jury determined in July that the three violated Jude's
In the days after the state trial, black and white residents, including the mayor, expressed their outrage at community meetings. As many as 2,000 people marched from the Milwaukee County courthouse to the federal courthouse.
Jude, 29, said he had been at
JONATHAN SAFRAN Attorney for victim
he begged for mercy. Jude said he heard Spengler call him a racial slur.
a party on Oct. 24, 2004,
when a group of white men
who identified
themselfs as off-duty officers kicked and punched him,
put a knife to his throat and jammed a pen in his ears as
"They came close to killing Mr. Jude," said his attorney, Jonathan Safran. "They caused him serious permanent physical injuries and mental injuries he and his family will have to deal with the rest of their lives."
Jude said the confrontation began as he and a friend were leaving the party, when a group of men surrounded their truck and dragged him out, accusing him of taking Spengler's badge. No badge was ever found.
NATION
Paul Tucker stands in front of the Price Chopper in Barre, Vt., on Thursday. Because he took a job as a Salvation Army bell ringer at the supermarket instead of finding a place to live, the homeless man has been told to leave a shelter.
Homeless man dismissed from shelter
BY JOHN CURRAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BARRE, Vt. — A homeless man thought he was doing some good by standing at a supermarket for 10 hours a day to get shoppers to donate money into a red Salvation Army kettle.
The shelter where Paul Tucker lives doesn't see it that way.
The Good Samaritan Haven ordered him out by Saturday, saying that 48-year-old Tucker is spending his time raising money for the needy instead of finding a place to live or looking for work.
gency housing, clothing and food, and requires clients to leave each day at 7 a.m. to look for housing or go to work, executive director Paul Mascicu said.
The 20-bed shelter offers emer-
The average guest stays 29 days, Mascotti said. Tucker has been there since May.
"If you're not doing anything 10 hours a day, whether it's lounging on a beach or working for the Salvation Army or sitting at a Dunkin' Donuts, you're breaking your contract with us." Mascitti said.
The Salvation Army — which
"I can't see someone saying. I'm going to benefit mankind when I haven't taken care of myself."
runs a soup kitchen Tucker frequents — gave him one of the bell ringer jobs two weeks ago. The gig pays $20 a day for meals.
"He's a sweet man; hed do anything for anybody," said Capt. Louis Patrick, who runs the local group.
Dressed in a knit Salvation Army cap and wearing a Salvation Army coat, Tucker solicits the donations from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. under a sign that reads: "Sharing and Caring. Need Knows No Season."
"It's for generosity, really," he said.
Tucker, who has worked as a painter, a farmer and a maintenance worker at a fast-food restaurant, has
been getting well-wishes from shopper who know of his situation and holds no ill will toward the shelter.
"I don't find fault with them, but I don't feel it's quite right," Tucker said.
Tucker said he isn't sure where he'll go when he clears out of the shelter. There's a hiking camp he's heard about nearby and he may go there.
Mascitti, meanwhile, makes no apologies. Rules are rules, he said.
"Here it is, the 'Grinch' time of the year, and this guy is being asked to leave the homeless shelter, no room at the inn. It's an old story," he said.
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