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The Inside Front
MONDAY,SEPTEMBER 9,2002
News
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STATE
Brothers will implicate each other in murder trial
WICHITA—Two brothers from Dodge City each say they were nowhere near the scenes of a week long crime spree that left five people dead.
But when Reginald and Jonathan Carr's trial begins in Sedgwick County District Court, neither will have any trouble implicating his brother.
"We're going to be pointing fingers at each other a lot," Jay Greeno, one of Reginald Carr's lawyers, told District Judge Paul Clark at a recent hearing.
The brothers are charged with abducting five people from an east Wichita home in December 2000, and later shooting them in a soccer field. One of the victims survived but Aaron Sander, 29, Heather Muller, 25, Brad Heyka, 27, and Jason Befort, 26, died.
All told, they are charged with 113 criminal acts, including capital murder. Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty.
The Carrs also are accused in the shooting earlier that month of Ann Walenta, 55, who later died.
Before testimony can even begin, though, a jury must be impaneled from a pool of 517 potential jurors—the largest pool ever in Sedgwick County. Selection is scheduled to begin Monday and could take weeks.
Prosecutors will have to deal with inconclusive eyewitness testimony and spotty DNA evidence. Defense lawyers, meanwhile, have argued that they can't pick a fair-minded jury inside Sedgwick County.
NATION
Experts recommend joint asteroid defense
WASHINGTON — A space rock big enough to cause widespread damage and death will hit the Earth only about once every 1,000 years, but experts say the destruction would be so extreme that nations should develop a joint defense against asteroids.
Participants at a NASA-sponsored conference on the hazards of comets and asteroids smashing into Earth estimated Friday that the planet probably would be hit about once each millennium by a space rock big enough to release about 10 megatons of explosive energy.
Such a rock, estimated at 180 feet across, scorched through the atmosphere over Tunguska in Siberia in 1908 and flattened trees across 800 square
miles of forest land. No crater was found and experts believe the damage came from atmospheric shock.
Bigger space rocks, which would cause considerably more damage, would hit the Earth even more rarely.
An object of about 1,000 feet "would flatten everything in an area the size of New Jersey and kill everybody there," said Erik Asphaug of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The planetwide effects of such a catastrophe are unknown, he said, but debris thrown into the atmosphere could diminish sunlight and perhaps affect agriculture for months.
New York hosts Congress' meeting to mark anniversary
NEW YORK—As Congress marked the approaching anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks with a rare ceremonial session just blocks from ground zero, New Yorkers thanked America for helping rebuild their battered city.
More than 300 House and Senate members attended Friday's session, only the second time Congress has met outside Washington since moving there in 1800.
Afterward, lawmakers sat down for lunch with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and then laid a wreath where the World Trade Center towers once stood and where some 2,800 people perished.
"New Yorkers recognize that we would not have made it through the darkest days in our city's history without our nation's help," Bloomberg told his guests, who dined on filet mignon at a hotel in lower Manhattan.
"Giving New Yorkers an opportunity to say thank you to our colleagues in the House means that we are saying thank you to America, too," said Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.
At the luncheon, also attended by victims' survivors and civic leaders. Bloomberg showed a video produced for the city in which ordinary New Yorkers are shown thanking America.
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The second-degree murder conviction of two teenage brothers in a deadly baseball bat attack on their father was a "jury pardon," the prosecutor said.
Murder conviction called 'jury pardon'
In a separate trial, a 40-year-old family friend was acquitted in the slaying, with the verdict sealed until the boys' conviction.
Prosecutors, in seeking a first-degree murder conviction against the teens, had argued Derek Kring, 14, and his 13-year-old brother Alex beat their dad to death with an aluminum bat, then set the house on fire to cover up the crime. The charge carried a mandatory term of life in prison.
But prosecutor David Rimmer noted the jury did not include the weapon in their verdict Friday, instead convicting the boys of second-degree murder without a weapon and arson for the Nov.26 slaying of Terry King, 40, at his Cantonment home.The boys then were 12 and 13,but were tried as adults.
The jurors "know good and well he was killed with a weapon," Rimmer said. "That's a jury pardon. That's OK, I don't have a problem with that."
The boys' attorneys said they would appeal but declined further comment. They face a possible sentence of 22 years to life in prison at sentencing Oct.17.
Suspected bombers arrested after delay
WORLD
BERLIN — German authorities had suspicions nearly two months ago about a Turkish man suspected of plotting to bomb U.S. military bases in Germany, but bureaucratic procedures delayed his arrest until last week, a prosecutor said yesterday.
A tip from U.S. security officials that a witness reported the suspect had chemicals at home reached German prosecutors in mid-July, but a judge put off questioning of the woman, scheduled for Aug. 13, because the summons could not be delivered on time, said Elke O'Donoghue, a prosecutor in the city of Stuttgart.
When the witness was interviewed later, she said suspect Osman Petmezci "was planning something very soon," O'Donoghue told The Associated Press. Prosecutors got a search warrant Aug. 30—six days before Petmezci, 24, and his American fiancee, Astrid Eyzaguirre, 23, were arrested Thursday near Heidelberg, home to U.S. Army Europe headquarters in southwestern Germany.
German authorities so far believe the couple were acting alone, despite citing evidence they admired Osama bin Laden and shared some of his convictions, including a hatred of Jews. Federal prosecutors were still reviewing the evidence Sunday.
The Associated Press
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ON THE RECORD
of a police officer about 1:45 a.m. Friday.
Lawrence Police Department officials were dispatched early Friday morning to disperse a large fight in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police Sgt. Mike Patrick said. A 20-year-old KU student was arrested for disorderly conduct at 1:42 a.m. and another 20-year-old KU student and a Lawrence resident were arrested for interfering with the duties
A Lawrence police officer arrested a 19-year-old KU student during a bar check at Jack Flanigan's Bar & Grill, 806 W. 24th St., for allegedly interfering with police duties, minor in possession and possession of a fake driver's license, Pattrick said.
ON CAMPUS
The Hall Center for the Humanities will host the Gender Seminar: Textual Uncertainties: The Legacy of Women Entrepreneurs in 18th-Century Barcelona at 3:30 today at the conference room in the Hall Center. Contact the center at 864-4798
KU Marketing Club will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pine Room in the
Kansas Union, Contact Aaron Mesmer
at 856-0839.
University Career and Employment Services will have the workshop Job Opportunities at KU from 3 to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at room 149 in the Burge Union. Contact Ann Hartley at 864-7674.
Camera on KU
Anton Bubnovskiy/Kansan
Ann Marie Launderdale reads a book outside the Kansas Union Sunday evening.
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