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Thursday, March 17, 1994
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District judge criticizes crime bill
Mandatory minimums are at heart of issue
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The federal courts are telling Congress they oppose key portions of a pending crime bill, including mandatory life sentences for some three-time losers.
the judiciary has opposed mandatory minimum sentences. There are a number of these in the bill, including mandatory life sentences for persons convicted of a third felony offense," a U.S. Judicial Conference committee told House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jack Brooks, D-Tex.
have called it the "three strikes, you're out" proposal.
A crime bill passed by the Senate and awaiting House action would impose mandatory life terms on people convicted of a third violent crime or major drug felony when the third conviction is in federal court. Some
The provision was criticized in a letter by U.S. District Judge Maryann Trump Barry of Newark, N.J., who chairs the Judicial Conference's committee on criminal law. The letter was made public yesterday by David Sellers, a representative for the conference that serves as a board of directors for the federal court system.
Barry also took issue with a crime bill provision that would impose minimum mandatory penalties for using guns in federal offenses and in violent crimes where the weapon crossed state lines.
"The Senate crime bill would create many federal offenses for activities that have traditionally and properly been prosecuted by the states," she told Brooks. "Many of these should remain the responsibility of the states."
Also yesterday, the House Judiciary
Committee approved legislation that would allow the five-year mandatory minimum terms of almost 4,000 federal prisoners to be shortened to two years.
The legislation was passed as part of a measure intended as a "safety valve" for certain first-time, nonviolent drug offenders that was approved 26-9, with the committee's 21 Democrats joined by five of its Republicans.
The measure would eliminate the five-year mandatory minimum sentence for qualifying defendants.
In its place, it would substitute a sentencing guideline that would recommend a minimum sentence of two years.
The committee by voice vote approved an amendment to the Schumer-Hyde measure that would make the new sentencing retroactive for qualifying prisoners who have records of good behavior.
Study finds AIDS drug causes bad side effects
The Associated Press
The slight benefits of taking AZT, the commonly used AIDS medicine, are often canceled by the drug's side effects, a study concludes.
The report casts even more doubt on the routine use of this medicine, which is often given to people who are infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, but not yet sick.
Studies last year showed that contrary to widespread belief, this use of AZT does not help people live longer, even though it modestly delays the start of AIDS symptoms.
The latest work suggests that people may get so sick from the medicine itself that this offsets any health advantage of postponing full-blown AIDS.
"There is a trade-off between the benefit of a prolonged disease-free state and the quality of life decrement caused by side effects related to treatment," said William Lenderking, a
psychologist at Harvard School of Public Health.
Lenderking's study, based on 1,338 HIV infected people, was published on March 10 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The patients had low levels of the variety of white blood cell that is the primary target of HIV, but they were outwardly well. They were randomly assigned to take AZT or placebos and watched for 18 months.
The AZT patients survived an average of 15.6 months without severe side effects or AIDS symptoms, compared with 15.7 months in the untreated comparison group.
Severe symptoms of AZT treatment included prolonged nausea, vomiting and fatigue.
At Burroughs Wellcome, which makes AZT, physician James Rooney said the study doesn't mean physicians should abandon early treatment with the drug.
whether they prefer to have toxicity or disease progression first," he said.
"It comes down to patient choice
Physician Richard Moore and others reviewed the treatment of 838 AIDS-infected patients at Johns Hopkins University's HIV clinic. They found that two-thirds of whites and half of African Americans were getting AZT.
The reasons for the difference were unclear, but the researcher concluded that "culturally appropriate efforts" to encourage African Americans to get treatment may be needed.
Another analysis in the journal concludes that Americans are getting infected with HIV at ever younger ages. Physician Philip Rosenberg and others from the National Cancer Institute calculated that the average age of infection was 30 in the early 1980s. But this dropped to 25 during the period from 1987 to 1991.
They also estimated that 50,000 to 61,000 new AIDS infections are occurring annually.
Driveway crimes in Dallas leave two people dead The Associated Press
DALLAS — Having an expensive car and living in a nice neighborhood are the spoils of success. For some residents, it seems to have made them targets in a deadly crime wave.
Since early January, more than two dozen people living in a 20-square-mile upscale area have been attacked in their driveways, and most owned luxury cars. The two latest victims were killed.
Investigators believe the culprit spots his prey entering the area and follows into the victim's rear-entry driveway, attacking as the person gets out of the car.
"There's not an effort made to get in the home or to get the cars," police representative Ed Spencer said Tuesday. "They take mostly watches, jewelry and money."
Police have posted $15,000 rewards in the two slayings, distributed fliers at shopping centers to remind people to keep garage areas well-lighted and assigned extra patrols to the neighborhood.
Three suspects were arrested the day before Scott's attack and were in jail when he was killed. The slayings made police realize they may be facing a long-term problem with no immediate solution.
Homicide investigators are swapping information with each other and robber investigators, Spencer said.
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