University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, December 3, 1986
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in Douglas County in one year went to trial, he said, it would take two years to resolve them.
An additional 8 percent of the cases were resolved through an agreement that required restitution short of a fine or jail sentence.
"We sometimes offer diversion agreements in cases of possession of small amounts of marijuana," Flory said. "They usually consist of some type of drug counseling or community service work."
Defendants under such an agreement are not technically guilty.
"The good thing about diversion agreements is that if they don't work, you haven't lost anything." Flory said. "If the defendant agrees to the agreement, he's treated just like any other defendant."
Therefore, 64 percent of the defendants charged in Douglas County drug cases have had to pay some sort of restitution.
Eighty-one of the 332 cases, or 24 percent, were dismissed at state's
Reasons for dismissal
costs.
Flory said cases were dismissed against the state for a variety of reasons. Several cases were dismissed because of faulty reports or entrapment by informants, arrests for substances that turned out to be non-narcotic, or because the defendant could not be reached or had died.
Although using confidential informants can be a somewhat delicate matter legally, Flory said informants played a vital role in speeding up an investigation.
An example of the danger of using an informant in drug investigations occurred in 1983, when a large number of the 88 drug cases were dismissed because of incorrect information from a confidential informant. As a result, the 1983 dismissal rate was 36 percent.
About 3 percent of the 332 defendants paid court costs after their cases were dismissed.
Fliory said the reasons for these dismissals were similar to those in which the state paid court costs. However, he said, the state had gathered enough evidence against him so that the defendant pay the costs.
The remaining 8 percent of the cases have not been decided or the defendants in them have not been found.
A random sample of 25 marijuana offenders' sentences showed the range of lesser sentences handed down in drug-related offences.
Judges have handed down sentences from 30 days to 10 years in prison for marijuana offenses
In the last five years, Douglas County district judges have given probation to 95 of the convicted drug offenders, mostly for marijuana charges.
Of the 25 defendants, 19 of them received probation on the day they were sentenced. Of those granted parole, two went to jail for less than a month and three went to jail
for less than four months before being paroled. One was in jail almost a year before parole was granted.
James Paddock, Douglas County district judge, said cocaine cases were categorized as felonies, crimes for which the state requires a minimum one-year prison term.
Cocaine offenders' sentences have ranged from one to 10 years in prison.
A random selection of 25 cocaine offenders showed that 12 were sentenced to three to five years probation and community service work. Two served slightly more than a month, and eight went to jail for three to five months before being granted probation. The remaining three were jailed for one to five years before receiving parole.
On the other hand, the bulk of marijuana cases are misdemeanors, crimes for which the state requires less than a one-year prison term.
Cutbacks might hit programs at WSU
United Press International
WICHTI — Some academic programs at Wichita State University may be eliminated if the school is forced to make further cuts in its budget. Warren Armstrong, president of the university, said yesterday.
If more budget reductions are mandated by the state, Wichita State will not continue to make cuts across the board, Armstrong said.
Instead, academic programs not deemed essential to the university's role in the Kansas higher education system have been sent a "uniform mediocrity," he said.
"The one thing we're learning increasingly is that we cannot be all things to all people," said Joyce the executive director of academic affairs.
"This just means that in the future when we're called upon to make even more successive reductions, we will
have a map of what we're going to do so we can protect essential programs."
School administrators sent Governor-elect Mike Hayden a copy of the university's plan to cut a mandated $1.5 million from its budget this fiscal year. Hayden ordered the 3.8 percent across-the-board budget cuts by state agencies last month because the state had received less income than it expected.
Academic programs the school considers essential, according to a mission statement being drawn up under the supervision of the Board of Regents, include the performing arts, engineering, business and education.
The liberal arts are not areas of emphasis in the statement, but Armstrong and Scott repeatedly have said that the school would not sacrifice liberal arts programs to strengthen the others.
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