Friday, Nov. 1. 1985
University Daily Kansan
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Man gets sentence for death of infant
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A 21-year-old Lawrence man was sentenced yesterday by Douglas County Associate District Judge Mike Malone to consecutive prison terms of five to 20 years for voluntary crime and two to 10 years for felony child abuse.
Genaro Ray Lewis, 820 Indiana St., was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and felony child abuse Oct. 2 after he pleaded no contest to charges filed in connection with the Aug. 10 death of 21-month-old Duane Beers and in the June 30 abuse of 3-year-old Brian Williams.
"Mr. Lewis, you are a sick and dangerous person," Malone said. "Your victims are children who have no way to defend themselves and no way to testify against you. This court has absolutely no reservations in ordering the maximum sentence."
The minimum sentence for voluntary manslaughter is three to five years, and the maximum is five to 20 years. The minimum sentence for felony child abuse is two to three years, and the maximum is five to 10 years.
Malone put Lewis in the custody of the Kansas secretary of corrections.
Lewis pleaded no contest to the charges on Oct. 2 in Douglas County District Court after a plea-bargaining agreement was reached
with Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, the previous day.
On Sept. 27, Flory increased the original charge of voluntary manslaughter to first-degree murder and added two counts of felony chilling after his incarceration with the death of Beers and one in an incident involving Williams.
As part of the plea bargaining agreement, Flory dropped the child abuse charge in connection with the death of Beers and replaced the first-degree murder charge with voluntary manslaughter.
He also agreed not to ask the court for an increased sentence under the habitual criminal act in connection with a 1983 felony theft conviction against Lewis in Johnson County.
In court yesterday, Flory asked the judge to sentence Lewis to the maximum prison terms allowed by law.
"I believe the key language of the "charges speak for themselves,""尔萨词, and musics convicted of willfulness, feloniously and unlawfully killing a human being.
"But a photograph can tell a story better than a thousand words, and the photo of Duane Beers lying on that multi-colored sheet was worth more than a thousand words in this case."
Flory said later that the picture was taken by investigators shortly after the victim's death in his home, where Lewis had been babysitting.
KU might cause other schools to be cautious when scheduling games with Detroit, said Gottfried, who is a brother of KU head football coach Mike Gottfried.
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"If I scheduled a game with that school, I'd put the buyout clause very high up in the contract," he said.
Hunter said KU Athletic Department officials still hadn't received a copy of Judge Borman's ruling and wouldn't make any decision about an appeal until they did.
KU has three options in dealing with the case. Hunter said.
"Our first option is to appeal the judge's ruling," he said. "Second, we can contact another school to see if
"We'll have to make a decision by the middle of next week, because we've got NBC and Louisville patiently waited."
they'd be willing to reschedule so that we could play both Detroit and Louisville. Our third option is to play neither Detroit nor Louisville.
Jack Tennant, assistant athletic director at the University of Louisville, said he hoped a KU-Louisville game still could be arranged for this year.
"I'm still keeping my fingers crossed," he said. "I think a game between KU and Louisville would be just a great game.
Previously, residents had been able to consume such beverages in TV lounges and corridors, he said.
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Laws
"For this year and probably the next year there will be a significant number of people who can legally drink, so we wanted to take another approach," he said.
Eventually, Wichita State, too, may have to prohibit such beverages at residence halls, he said.
Ken Stoner, KU director of student housing, said he learned at a conference of Big Eight Conference housing directors last week that only Colorado, Kansas State and Iowa State universities still allowed some form of drinking in residence halls.
Dennis Orr, coordinator of residential life at Emporia State University, said that whether Emporia State had been chosen to KU's had not been determined yet.
"A lot of what happens next year depends on how students handle the responsibility of being able to drink, for instance, or not of legal age handle it." Orr said.
Emporia State students who are of legal age may have and consume 3.2 percent beer in their residence hall rooms, he said.
Officials at Fort Hays State and Pittsburg State were not available to comment on their schools' policies.
Lawsuit against Stephan may be re-opened
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Still mapping her strategy, Marge Phelps said yesterday that she was considering writing a "demand letter" to Attorney General Robert T. Stephan to give him one more chance to settle a sexual harassment complaint lodged against him by a former employee.
Phelps said she was considering possible tactics in the face of a demand by her client, Marcia Tomson, to re-open a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Stephan in December 1982 and settled in March in a secret out-of-court agreement that included a $24,000 cash payment.
Neil Woerman, spokesman for the Republican attorney general, had no comment on the possibility of such a letter, saying only "we will not get into an ongoing dialogue with Ms. Phelps." He said Stephan stood by his earlier statements regarding the lawsuit.
"I'm thinking of sending a demand letter, stating (Tomson's) claim and letting him respond," Ms. Phelps said in a telephone interview. "I don't know for sure. I'm not sure we want to settle again after what's happened."
What has happened is that one of Stephan's close friends, former state Sen. Bob Stopey of Topeka, revealed
some of the details of the settlement including his role in collecting half of the $24,000 cash payment from a group of prominent Kansas businessmen.
In the process, Stephan and Storey denigrated the lawsuit, and Stephan said he had no knowledge of the law. He denied the lawsuit seven months ago.
In that suit, Tomson sought $750,000 in damages and accused Stephan of making sexist advances and alleged that two other employees
had animosity toward her that eventually resulted in her firing.
Tomson worked for Stephan three years before she was fired in 1982. She now lives in San Diego, Calif. The two staff members named in the suit, Betty Johnson and Robert Alderson, left the attorney general's office.
Phelps' other option in re-opening the case is to refile the sexual harassment lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Topeka, which she said was very possible.
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