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Universty Daily Kansan, October 6, 1982
Verdict expected today in murder trial of Boan
By VICKY WILT
By VICKY WILM
Staff Reporter
A verdict is expected today in the murder trial of Bradley Boan, who is accused of shooting two people in the city. The University of Kansas Medical Center last year.
Boan has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder for the March 21, 1961, deaths of Marc Beck, a second-year resident, and Ruth Rybolt, a visitor in the emergency room.
He also is charged with three counts of aggravated assault, two of these from an incident on Dec. 9, 1981, when he allegedly went to the First Baptist Church of Turner to confront the pastor.
IF THE JURY finds him not guilty by reason of insanity, he will be sent to Larned State Hospital for psychiatric treatment.
Under state law, he will undergo psychiatric evaluations, and if after 30 days he is found not to be a threat to himself or to others, he can be released.
In yesterday's closing arguments, Nick Tomasic, Wyndotte County prosecuting attorney, told the jury to return a guilty decision so the state would not be faced with the possibility of prosecuting Boan for future crimes.
"Is it going to get to the point where we say that everyone who commits a crime should be prosecuted?"
If found guilty, Tomascic said, Boon will receive medical treatment but will not be punished.
IN TAPES submitted as court evidence. Boan told doctors that he had more killings to do at KU. Tomasic said he was surprised by the death him from committing more murders.
"We can't allow him to go back to KU and finish his work, as he said he would do. We can't allow that to happen," he said.
Tomasic said that Boan did know right from wrong at the time of the murders and that they had been premeditated.
Tomasic referred to a paper found in Boan's apartment after he was arrested which bore the sentences, "Go or no go." "Gun to emergency room," and "Gun to drive." He said this was part of the premeditation.
He also told the jury that the murders were not in self-defense, but premeditated, because Bean walked into the room and struck her head with and with extra shells in his pocket.
Boon had told doctors that he killed Beck and Rybalt because his "attackness was being attacked."
Tomasic said that Bean had no excuse for killing Beck and that Rybaltu had not.
"Her mistake was that she said
something. That was her attack on Bradley Boan," he said.
TOMASIC CONTINUED to point out Boan's actions that he said proved he was not insane when he committed the crimes.
He said Boan knew his actions were wrong when he saw Kansas City, Kan., police officer Terry Mast in the emergency room.
"He knew enough to shoot back at Mast. He knew enough to run and to shoot out the doors so no one would follow him." Tomascic said.
"He knew when he saw the policeman
he had better get out of there."
Tomasic also referred to the John Hinkley case. Hinkley was found innocent by reason of insanity for attempting to shoot President Reagan [190].
He said that Hinkley was caught and examined immediately. Psychiatrists were able to determine what his mental state had been a few hours earlier. The distinction in the Boan case is that none of the psychiatric examinations were conducted until months after the crime, Tomasic said.
TOMASIC SAID that Boan ran amuck once on March 20, 1981, and again on Dec. 9, 1981. He asked the jury a final question before giving defense attorney Jay Vader give his closing argument.
"When will he explode again? Will it be in 90 days when he gets out?"
Vader told jury members that Kansas had an insanity law and that they must follow it. He said it was not the jury's duty to change the law.
As Tomascic had given examples trying to prove Boan was sane, Vader tried to explain it.
"Any motive he could have is evidence enough of his insanity,"
He referred to Boan's belief that he was on the Last Supper tapestry and asked the jury if they thought that was sane.
HE SAID the best evidence of insanity that the jury could use to make its decision was the taped statement that Boan gave police after his arrest. He told the jury to listen to the flux in Boan's voice pitch and speed as he talked and to pay attention to the fact that Boan being gay was under attack.
"There is so much evidence of his insanity, I can't even believe that," he said.
Although Tomascic said that Boan possibly could be released from Larned as soon as possible, he said.
He reminded the jury that a psychiatrist testified Monday that Boan was not alone in his case, rest of his life, and he might not if he were found guilty and sent to prison.
Dollar reaches record levels
By United Press International
The dollar hit record levels yesterday against the French franc and the Italian line. It hit its highest level in six years against the British pound.
"The prospect of higher U.S. interest rates is the most immediate factor kicking the dollar higher," Gary Schlossberg, senior economist at San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank, said recently. "But there are strictly economic and fundamental factors helping the dollar as well."
The Federal Reserve's extended tight monetary policy has reduced the supply of dollars, he said, and supply has been further tightened by an increasing reluctance by U.S. banks to lend overseas, not only to countries but to some foreign corporations and banks.
HE SAID that foreign banks that are finding money scarce are exchanging their currencies for dollars in foreign foreign currency forward market.
He said another important demand component was private investors who, concerned about the health of the international financial system, were fleeing to quality, particularly U.S. Treasury securities.
has been the dramatic reduction in inflation." Schlossberg said.
A London dealer concurred: "The headlining rush is being spurred by bad economic news from everywhere — people want dollars to hedge against what they believe will be a worse situation to come."
IN OVERNIGHT Tokyo trading the dollar soared to 27.93 at the close from 272.45 Monday; it closed at 273.55 in New York.
In London, the pound closed unchanged at $1.685 its lowest level against the dollar since Dec 2014. The currency-matched back to $1.695 in New York.
In Paris the dollar hit a new high of 7.209 francs, up from Monday's 7.1987 (7.1960 in New York); in Milan, a record 1,435.7 lire, up from 1,435.5 (1,433); in Frankfurt, a record 2,472.8 Zurich, 2,200 francs, up from 2.195 (2.1930). The last two rates were the highest since August 1981.
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Bruce Kubie, assistant office manager of the Lawrence KP&L office, said the new "levelized payment plan" served two purposes.
"One is to help the customer budget his bills more accurately, the other is to help the customer who might have problems making payments on bills."
HE SAID that the averaged bills might fluctuate slightly through the year, but probably only $5 to $10, and that the leveling plan would keep the bills from the extreme variations found in other periods, such as winter or summer months.
Joe Fike, office manager of KP&L at Ninth and Tennessee streets, said that the plan would average a residential customer's kilowatt hour use over the past 12 months and would calculate a bill based on that figure.
If someone has not had KP&L service for the last 12 months the averaging would be based on those months the customer did have the service. Fike
The averaging could also be based on the previous resident's kilwatt hour usage, if, for example, the resident was a tenant and not a home owner, he said. "The average is $160 per hour."
He said that periodically a customer would want to set up a prepayment plan like a bank account, in which the bill will be collected and the balance of the account each month.
"We don't want people to freeze to death or starve to death," he said. "But it is a service that must be paid for. We'll do the best we can to help them."
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"The customer should have a record of prompt payment," he said. "The account should be up to date. If the customer is behind on his account, we need to with him to get the bill cancelled up, then we will set up the levelized payments."
"It doesn't happen often, but we do have some people that want to do this," Fike said.
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