Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - September 19, 1995, Waterloo, Iowa AFRICAN VIOLET CLUB PREPARING FOR ANNUAL SHOW Paged First Column Effects of Simpson trial rippling through nation's courts By HUGH DELLIOS Chicago Tribune OS ANGELES In New York a jury acquitted an accused robber because prosecutors presented no DNA evidence linking him to the crime despite the fact that robbers rarely leave behind laden samples In Texas and South Carolina judges banned TV cameras from high-profile es In one case the prosecutor declined the chance to become a national television star saying he did not want to be the Marcia Clark of south Texas In California lawmakers are thinking of doing away with the requirement for mous jury verdicts and opinion polls gest that an anxious and impatient public supports the idea The Simpson murder case has yet to reach the jury but already the trial is ing the way cases are tried and justice is administered in courtrooms far from Judge Lance Ito's bench Across the country prosecutors report that defense attorneys now are grilling them about every detail of evidence with lines of questioning they could have learned only from watching Johnnie Cochran Jr and other members of Simpson's dream team of defense lawyers Criminal defense experts are getting calls from convicted prisoners asking why a Simpson defense technique was not employed in their cases Jurors in the most remote courthouses are coming armed with new expectations of and stricter standards of proof Between classes and offices few aspects of the legal system have been untouched by inspired ideas This trial shows everything that's good and bad with the legal system only in sharper said Paul Rothstein a Georgetown University law professor who taught a class this summer It's like a textbook about what you should and shouldn't do in the courtroom Not a model trial Some legal experts insist the Simpson tri- al is a California aberration like the Rodney King case the Denny riot case that followed it and the Menendez brothers parricide case All these resulted in controversial verdicts Nothing as sensational as the Simpson trial legal experts insist should be held up as a model that demands legal reform they fear the Simpson trial could result in unwarranted tinkering with a court system that for the most part functions well What I'm afraid is going to happen with and the you know the whole litany of celebrated cases is some knee-jerk said Barbara Babcock a law professor at Stanford University People are fix the verdicts Well I'm not against reform but let's make it comprehensive and In some cases watchers are not wailing for the legal reformers and the legislators The Simpson trial will have a tremendous impact on the legal system I'm already seeing it here in New Jeanine Pirro the district attorney in Westchester County told television in Los Angeles Pirro said a jury in her county recently acquitted a robbery suspect because failed to present any DNA evidence in the case I think jurors are more skeptical of law enforcement of police Pirro said I think jurors also have a greater See SIMPSON AREA FARMERS NOT WORRIED ABOUT TUESDAY SEPTEMBER WATERLOO FALLS 50 cents Falls Iowa NFL SUES COWBOYS OWNER JONES OVER MARKETING may get industrial funds By PAT KINNEY Courier Business Editor The Iowa Transportation Com- mission today is expected to approve million in state ing to complete Martin Luther King Jr Drive in Waterloo ing the city's northeast industrial area Those funds along with the metro area's projected annual share of federal highway funds is B Waterloo approaches company about new industrial park See page B6 expected to complete the entire million project from South Barclay Street to North Elk Run Road in the northeast industrial area over the next several years City Planner Don Temeyer said The funds would be allocated under the state's RISE Revitalize Iowa's Sound Economy program which funds roads serving trial projects in the state City officials have been trying to secure funds to complete the ject for more than 10 years It was originated as part of the Sixth project which runs from the northeast industrial area to the Six Corners tion on the west side of town where West Fourth Street con- verges with Kimball Campbell and Williston avenues The city had sought about million in RISE funding Temeyer said about million had been recommended by Iowa ment of Transportation staff for commission approval The project has been slowed over the years because of a shortfall in the original cation of federal funds necessary to complete the metro highway system built over the last 10 years with federal interstate highway substitution funds and state and local matching money The project has proceeded in phases over the years as funds were available Martin Luther King Drive will serve John Deere's Tractor Works IBP and other northeast site tries It also will serve a industrial park the city announced in August it is purchasing from private interests through local banks and the Waterloo Industrial Development Association Photos by RICK CHASE Courier Staff Photographer Day Care Preschool Kindergarten Director Linda Buehler comforts a student after the center was evacuated Monday Students were allowed to return to their building after the gas was shut off between utility company fence company blamed for incident Courier Staff Writer 1 WATERLOO Almost 100 people including 35 care kids were evacuated from businesses and other buildings in downtown Waterloo Monday after a natural gas leak The situation was diffused in about an hour by crews who dug down and shut off a gas main which had been cut by workers drilling a hole There were no injuries Fire Battalion Chief Mel Cook said the occurred about p.m in an ailey southeast corner of Superior ing Supply Co at Seventh and cial streets Workers from Miller Fence Co Inc were using an auger when they hit the main Cook said but the line's location had been incorrectly marked by Midwest Gas However Paul Roethler Midwest Gas operations manager said the line was cut due to a between the exact location and the proposed digging spot for the fence Roethler said when a company plans to dig they contact Midwest Gas officials who send someone out with an instrument to locate gas lines When the line locations were checked by Midwest Gas there was a mix-up as to where the digging would occur Roethler said He said the marked locating stopped Waterloo firefighters and utility crews work at the scene of a natural gas leak Monday on the east side of Superior Welding Supply Co Seventh and Commercial streets about 30 feet short of the construction site streets The scent of gas was in the air as firefighters The only danger was you don't ever know who's buildings and blocked roads from Commercial going to come into the area with a spark or to Bluff streets between West Sixth and West Eighth he said Newspaper prints full Unabomber manifesto Publishers say they are fulfilling the mysterious terrorist's request to save lives Newspapers WASHINGTON Up against a Sunday deadline and at the request of Attorney General Janet Reno and the FBI the ton Post on Tuesday turned-over its pages to a serial killer known as the Unabomber In a special section added to Tuesday's editions the Post a manuscript written by the bomber ed and in ita entirety in response to his bizarre offer to hah a 17-year string of bomb murders if the Post or the New York Times agreed to lish his treatise After consulting with Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh at the Post and the Times jointly agreed to print the ment in the Post with the Times footing half the cost which was not disclosed late Monday For three months the ington Post and the New York Times have jointly faced the demand of a person known as the Unabomber that we publish a manuscript of about words If we fail to do so the author of this document ened to send a bomb to an unspecified destination with intent to Post publisher Donald E Graham and Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr said in a statement released late Monday From the beginning the two newspapers have consulted closely on the issue of whether to publish under the threat of the statement said Both the Attorney General and the director of the FBI have now that we print this for public safety reasons and we have agreed to do so The papers agreed that thp would appear in the Post rather than the Times because the Post has the mechanical ability a separate section in all copies of its daily the statement said Neither paper would offer ther comment about the decision which is believed to be dented in the history of modern journalism However the Times published a front-page story about the deal in Tuesday's editions In that ry Graham and Sulzberger explained their reasoning saying they were acting solely to save INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE AP PHOTO This Is the front page of the special section of The Washington Post containing the so-called manifesto published today in the Times the best advice available from the FBI and others is that the Unabomber may well not bomb again if his material is published In a statement released late Monday U.S Justice ment spokeswoman Lee glass said Reno and Freeh publication out of concern for public safety Plus she said Reno and Freeh hope that publishing the document will produce tips leading to the identity Neither paper has any istic reason to print the Times story quoted Graham as saying Whether you like it or Sulzberger added we're turning our pages over to a man who has murdered people But I'm con- we're making the right choice between bad options It's difficult to put complete faith in the word of someone with the record of violence that the Unabomber said Key witness in Ruby Ridge probe set to testify WASHINGTON AP key witness in Senate hearings on the government's con- with Randy Weaver is a senior FBI official who alleged his bosses covered up the approval of rules against the white separatist Eugene Glenn was the FBI field der during the siege at Ruby Ridge Idaho which ended in the shooting deaths of Weaver's wife his son and a deputy U.S marshal Glenn's charges spurred the Justice Department to take a new look at the approval of the special shooting rules used at Ruby Ridge Five of his bosses were pended with pay this summer and are under the cloud of a federal criminal investigation to determine whether they obstructed tice Glenn has alleged that top FBI officials concealed from internal investigators the fact that former FBI Deputy Director Larry Potts approved special shooting rules for the agency's snipers at Ruby Ridge Potts denies approving them fn a departure from FBI policy the rules of engagement were rewritten to say that snipers could and should fire at any armed adult male spotted outside Weaver's cabin The longstanding FBI shooting rule by contrast restricts the use of lethal force to See RUBY RIDGE page A3 Low FOES STAGE PROTEST AT POWELL High 50s 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