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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 2003
Page
1
Phyllis Nelson expresses deep sorrow over her husband’s death and says nothing could ease her grief. She remarks she will pay for the crime for the rest of her life and beyond, seeking peace despite her prison term.
Phyllis Nelson and Mary Jo Young spoke in Linn County about Richard Nelson, the University of Iowa executive dean who was stabbed to death by Nelson’s husband. Judge Thomas Horan imposed an indeterminate prison term of up to 10 years with a five year minimum for voluntary manslaughter.
Cedar Rapids Linn County District Judge Thomas Horan released transcripts of Phyllis Nelsons police calls the morning she stabbed her husband. The tapes recorded Dec 12 2001 have been sealed since June and Nelsons statements raise fair trial concerns. The dispatch system glitches are discussed and questions remain about when an ambulance was summoned.
A Johnson County judge barred DataMaster breath tests on March 28 forcing police to rely on urine analyses. The Gazette finds Iowa City police had fewer than half as many drunken driving arrests in the three weeks after the ruling compared to the prior three weeks. Judge Stephen Gerard II issued the ban due to lack of approved uniform instructions from the state DPS.
In Baghdad, General Jay Garner arrived to direct postwar reconstruction as authorities report progress on restoring power and opening markets while arresting a key figure in the 1991 Shiite uprising and warning of potential war crime charges.
A study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School reports a substance in black tea called L-theanine primes gamma-delta T cells and boosts interferon production, aiding immune response. Human volunteers showed tea drinkers’ blood cells reacted five times faster to germs than coffee drinkers.
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