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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015
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Plan to allow Kansas groceries to sell wine, liquor advances
JOHN HANNA Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. — Grocery stores in Kansas could start selling liquor, wine and full-strength beer starting in July 2018 under a proposal clearing a legislative committee Monday in a state once known as the home of saloon-smasher Carrie Nation.
The bill approved by the House Commerce, Labor and Economic Development Committee also would allow convenience stores to sell fullstrength beer, starting in July 2018. The committee's 10-7 vote sends the measure to the full House for debate.
It's a significant development for supporters of expanded alcohol sales in a state that enforced its own prohibition law until 1949 and didn't allow individual alcoholic beverages outside of private clubs until 1987. Yet the biggest impediment in recent years to greater alcohol sales in grocery and convenience stores has been the fierce opposition of liquor store owners, not lingering prohibition sentiment.
Kansas limits grocery and convenience stores to selling "cereal malt beverage," which is often described as weak beer, though some critics of state law say the product is almost as
strong as full-strength beer.
Supporters of the bill include chains such as Dillons, Hy-Vee and QuikTrip. They argue that wider sales of full-strength beer, wine and liquor would make the market freer and be more convenient for consumers.
"We're providing an opportunity for customers to buy what they want in one-stop shopping." Hy-Vee lobbyist Dick Stoffer said after the committee's vote.
Kansas has about 750 liquor stores, and many of their owners argue the bill would drive them out of business in favor of large, out-of-state corporations. The argument has resonated with some conservative, free-market
"Go out west, the gas stations are closed... Where was the government law that kept them in business?"
SCOTT SCHWAB
R-Olathe
"I hate to see the little guys get rolled today," said Rep. Ken Corbet, a Topeka Republican.
Republicans.
David Dvorak, the owner of Flint Hills Wine & Spirits in Andover, said he contributes to local charities, and makes
his $255,000 in annual business expenses locally. He also questioned whether state regulators would shut down a large chain retailer's store if it violates liquor laws.
But Rep. Scott Schwab, an Olathe Republican, suggested that liquor store owners were seeking special protection from larger retailers.
"Go out west, the gas stations are closed," Schwab said, referring to the western part of Kansas. "There are plants growing up in the cracks in the concrete. Where was the government law that kept them in business?"
Under the bill, the state would cap the number of liquor-store licenses on July 1. Then, in July 2018, a grocery store could buy such a license from one of the closest three liquor stores. Starting in July 2021, a grocery store could buy out any liquor store in the same county.
JEFF TUTTLE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOHN HANNA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The attorney for Air Force Sgt. David Gutierrez, right, says a ruling on Monday by the nation's highest military court that reversed his client's conviction for exposing multiple sex partners to HIV will effectively end such prosecutions in the armed forces.
Lawyer: HIV assault ruling could end all such cases
ROXANA HEGEMAN
WICHITA — The highest U.S. military court's reversal of a Kansas airman's aggravated assault conviction for exposing multiple sex partners to HIV at swinger parties in Wichita will effectively end such prosecutions in the armed forces, his attorney said.
Associated Press
TOP; Kansas state Rep. Steve Brunk, right, a Wichita Republican, criticizes a bill allowing grocery stores to sell wine and liquor during a House committee debate, as Rep. Les Mason, left, a McPherson Republican, watches, Monday at the Statehouse in Topeka. The bill would allow such sales starting in July 2018. BOTTOM: Lobbyists Dick Stoffer, left, representing Hye-Vee Inc., Gavin Kreidler, center, of UnCork Kansas, and Mike Thornbrugh, of QuikTrip Corp., confer over a proposed change to a bill allowing expanded alcohol sales in grocery and convenience stores. Monday at the Statehouse in Topeka. Their clients favor the measure, which allows convenience stores to sell full-strength beer and grocery stores, beer, wine and liquor, starting in July 2018.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces unanimously ruled Monday that prosecutors failed to prove that any of David Gutierrez's acts were likely to transmit HIV to his partners.
That decision overturns a 25-year precedent that had allowed military personnel to be convicted of aggravated assault solely on the basis of a positive HIV test, attorney Kevin McDermott said Tuesday. Gutierrez was not accused of infecting anyone with HIV.
The Associated Press sent an email to prosecutors seeking comment.
The court upheld a lesser
conviction of assault by battery for offensive touching to which his sexual partners did not provide meaningful informed consent. It also upheld his conviction for adultery, even though his wife participated with him in the swinger lifestyle. The court said his wife's participation is "immaterial to the question" of whether the government presented sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction.
At the time, Gutierrez was found guilty of the aggravated assault charge, as well as of violating an order to notify partners about his HIV status and to use condoms. He was also convicted of indecent acts and adultery.
Gutierrez was a sergeant at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita in 2011 when he was stripped of his rank and sentenced to eight years behind bars.
his sentence. The airman, who has been imprisoned since his arrest in August 2010, could be released from Fort Leavenworth prison within the next couple of weeks, McDermott said.
The appeals court on Monday upheld the lower court's decision on the other charges and sent the case back to the lower court to reassess
Gutierrez could still be issued a bad conduct discharge, rather than the more severe dishonorable discharge that he had previously faced.
In his appeal, Gutierrez challenged whether the risk to his sexual partners was high enough to constitute aggravated assault.
Defense lawyers argued the risk of infection by an HIVpositive man during sexual intercourse with a woman ranged from a 1-in-10,000 to 1-in-100,000 chance per sexual encounter, which they contend is so low that it doesn't meet the legal standard for assault. Prosecutors countered that the exposure risk was closer to 1 in 500.
The court concluded that even if the risk were 1 in 500, transmission of the disease was not "likely" to occur.
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