CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, March 20, 1984
Page 7
High court will hear appeal in murder case
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in an appeal by Arthur Berry, convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and aggravated battery in a shooting spree in 1981.
Berry was convicted Dec. 3, 1982, of killing his wife, Claudiene, her friend Lucy Webb and wounding Debbie Garrett. He was sentenced to two consecutive life prison terms and one term of five years to 20 years.
BERRY CONTENDS there was a disproportionately low representation of blacks in the group of jurors from which his jury was chosen.
Berry also contends the jury should have been instructed on the charge of second-degree murder in the death of his wife. The case will be heard today.
On Thursday, the court will hear arguments in the case of Clyde Richard, found guilty in the 1980 killing of Darlene Bruner in Indea until June 1982 and was convicted June 2, 1982.
Court documents say Richard shot and wounded Ms. Bruner in 1860 when he fired a shotgun into a car she was driving and twelve days later shot and
killed her while she was standing in front of a club.
IN HIS APPEAL, Richard contends the district court should have granted a new trial based on new evidence.
Also on the dock is the case of Randall A. Murray, convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated a prior killer's Oil Station in Kansas City, Kan.
The murder and robbery occurred Feb. 17, 1983, and Murray was convicted May 25 the same year. He was sentenced to life in prison, plus
In his appeal, Murray contends a mistrial should have been declared after a witness for the prosecution made prejudicial remarks and that evidence in the case was improperly obtained. The hearing is set for today.
On Friday, former associate Reno County Judge Richard Rome is to defend himself before the high court against a recommendation by the judge. The Attorney for public censure. Rome now is an attorney in Hutchinson.
The board found Rome's conduct in filing criminal complaints against the sheriff and former county attorney was prejudicial and adversely reflected on his fitness to practice law.
The Lawrence City Commission will review tonight a controversial policy that allows Lawrence police to videotape public events in certain instances.
By SHARON BODIN Staff Renorter
City to review police videotaping policy
Staff Reporter
The police department issued the policy last month. Since then, the president of the Lawrence chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Daniel Wildcat, and Bob Marvin, a member of the Lawrence Democratic Socialists of America, have written letters to the City Commission protesting the policy.
THE POLICY SPECIFIES four guidelines that police should use to determine whether to videotape public events.
In response to Wildcat's second letter, written March 11, Assistant Chief of Police Ron Olin wrote a letter to the commission defending the policy.
First, police officers may videotape when they have probes to cause to think that a city ordinance, state or regulation is in effect.
Second, they may videotape in any situation where the videotape will be needed as evidence after a crime has been committed, and in circumstances that impending violence by participants in a public setting.
Finally, the police may use videotapes to help train new officers.
Under the policy, the police department will not distribute any videotape information without adhering to federal, state and local laws and guidelines on
releasing investigative data.
The police department wrote the policy after controversy arose over the videotaping of a demonstration in November. Police taped the demonstration because the video was deemed to be that of the leaders of a Latin American Solidarity group.
In his letter, Wildcat suggested a study session on the policy.
Olin said in his letter that citizens voluntarily surrendered the expectation of privacy when they were in a public place.
"In this ominous year of 1843," he said, "can we afford not to scrutinize the appropriate use of a technology that not only holds the potential for tremendous good, but, also, chilling abuse?"
Proposed KU system could have video phones
By ROB KARWATH
THE SYSTEM WOULD not provide video telephones
Staff Reporter
Two-way video telephone conversations could become commonplace at the University of Kansas within the next decade if KU officials give final approval to a new campus telecommunications system by 1986.
"The system would have modern outlets," said Alharee. "A phone and a computer could be plugged in."
immediately, but could handle them if they were added in the future. As planned, the system would provide support for the new server, which is
Dewey Allaire, associate director of facilities operations, said yesterday that Chancellor Gene A. Budig had given tentative approval to a plan to install the new system by January 1986. The University would own the system, which would replace the current system KU leases from Southwestern Bell Telephone
Allaire said KU would wait to get the television phones, but said the University wanted any new system able to handle them because video phones probably would be widely used in the future.
The system is expected to initially cost about $7.4 million.
BEFORE THE NEW system wins final approval, Hogan said, the committee would conduct a survey of each department and organization under the University's telecommunications plan. The plan suggests uses for television communications systems.
University officials have discussed televising clauses and transmitting them to Kansas City, and viewers.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. rate increases prompted KU to consider buying a telecommunications system, Hogan said. The University now uses a Centrex II system and is under contract with Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. until Jan. 1, 1986.
University officials have estimated that staying with Bell would cost about $30 million over the next 10 years. They estimate that KU could save between 20 and 40 percent of the mount over the same period by buvining its own system.
Hogan and Allaire said that the price of any new system would have to fall within the University's $115,000 monthly telephone budget.
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