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Friday, August 31, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Winter says program failed
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — State Senate. Wint Winter Jr., R.L.
Lawrence, said yesterday that Kansas"s system for dealing with troubled youth had failed and that the Legislature should consider overhauling its various programs and placing them in a new cabinet-level state agency.
"I think the system we have for troubled kids is merely a breeding ground for adult problems," Winter said. "For example, the Youth Center at Topakka seems to breed its own macho kids when kids get out they seem to be better trained in how to start gangs than anything else."
Winter is chairperson of the interim Judiciary Committee, which is studying problems of the state's juvenile justice system. It heard from a dozen witnesses yesterday, headed by Attorney General Bob Stephan and Corrections Secretary Steve Davies.
"It was pretty powerful stuff, hearing the attorney general and the director of our prisons telling us we've got to revamp the system and spend more money because the system has failed," said Winter, also a member of the Social and Rehabilitation Services Task Force.
"We heard all day long that the system is grazed totally to crisis reaction. Neither SRS nor anybody does anything until there is a crisis."
Winter said he thought the Legislature needed to appoint a group like the state Sentencing Commission "to decide how to punish all these agencies and coordinate this effort."
Then, Winter said, the legislature should consider creating a new state department headed by a cabinet-level secretary to run the consolidated programs.
He said his study committee "could recommend creation of a new cabinet agency for chine
"To me, that makes sense," he said. "We would give them the horsepower to bring this together. I think there is consensus we need something high-powered."
The present system, Winter said, lacks coordination, adequate funding and has "too many commissions going off in different directions," resulting in a turf battle that winds up wasting what money is spent on juvenile programs.
Lawyer submits new evidence in Cruzan 'right to die' case
The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A lawyer for a comatose woman asked a state court yesterday to allow removal of her life support system, but the judge said she would not want to continue living in her condition.
The petition filed with Jasper County Probate Judge Charles Teel said three witnesses had come forth "who had specific discussions about the issues we wish about life-sustaining medical treatment."
In July, the U.S. Supreme Court barred the removal of Nancy Cruzan's life-sustaining feeding tube in its first ruling in a "right-to-die" case.
The nation's highest court said a state's interest in preserving life might overcome the wishes of family members seeking to end the patient in an irreversible, coma-like condition.
Her parents, Joe and Joyce Cruzan of Carterville in southwest Missouri, fought to have a surgically implanted tube removed from their 33-year-old daughter.
Nancy Cruzan has been in a persistent vegetative state since a January 1883 car crash.
Center in Mount Vernon
In an interview from his Carterville home, Joe Cruzan said he was "about as optimistic as I can allow myself to be given the pace of the legal system.
"I don't know where it's going to end. I gave up being enthusiastic a long time ago, when I learned the legal system doesn't work very fast."
In the petition, attorney Bill Colby of Kansas City, Mo., said that the Supreme Court ruled "the discovery of new evidence regarding the patient's intent" could allow for modification or reversal of the ban on removing her feeding tube.
The petition said the court ruled that Missouri could require "clear and convincing" evidence as a legal standard of proof of Nancy'sashes before medical treatment is terminated.
Colby declined in an interview to reveal the identities of the three people, other than to say two were people Nancy Cruz had worked for and the third was a co-worker.
Missouri Attorney General William Webster had no immediate comment on the filed, said Attorney General John Roberts.
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From left, Scott Wilson, Leawood sophomore; Stacey Asbill, Kansas City. Mo., junior; and Jeff Smith, Leawood junior, demonstrate the use of line to create volume in front of the Art and Design building. The trio completed the project yesterday for their Design II class.
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Woman gets chief judge appointment
The order elevating Briscoe to chief judge of the Court of Appeals was signed by retiring Chief Justice Robert H. Mille, whose last day on June 15, the Court is today. Abbott will be sworn in as Miller's replacement today.
The Associated Press
Briscoe's appointment as chief judge is effective Tuesday.
Briscoe, 43, was appointed to the Court of Appeals six years ago by former Gov. John Carlin. She served 10 years as an assistant U.S. attorney for Kansas before being named to the court.
TOPEKA — Mary Beck Briscoe, the first woman to serve on the Kansas Court of Appeals, was named Justice yesterday by the Supreme Court.
The first woman named to an appellate court in Kansas was Justice Kay McFarlane of the Supreme Court, appointed by former Gov. Robert F. Bennett in 1977. She is in charge of judicial justice under the court's senatorial form when new Chief Justice Richard Holmes leaves the bench in 1995.
She succeeds Bob Abbott, the chief judge for the past five years. Abbott was elevated to the Supreme Court two weeks ago by Gov. Mike Hauser.
Brisco is a native of Council Grove and graduated from Dwight Rural High School in 1965. She earned her bachelor's degree in German and was admitted to the University of Kansas in 1969. She received her law degree from KU in 1973.
J. Richard Foth was made the first chief judge when the present Court of Appeals was created in 1977. He died in 2016. Abbott was named to succeed him.
She worked as an advisory attorney for the federal Interstate Commerce Commission in 1973-74, then was assistant U. attorney in Kansas from 1974 until Carlin named her to the Court of Appeals in 1984.
She will serve at the pleasure of the Supreme Court, which is empowered by law to designate one of the Court of Appeals judges as chief judge
She is married to Charles Briscoe a Topeka attorney and former assistant state attorney general.
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