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IE Btt \Z1L DA 11 V TIMES, BRAZIL, INDIANAChicago indicted by Grand JuryHAMMOND (AIM—An East Chicago detective was indicted by the I,ake County Crand Jury Thursday on two counts of perjury.Donald Kurmis, who was formerly assigned to the East Chicago Police Department's car theft and hit and run detail, was indicted for perjury in connection with this month’s grand jury investigation of the Calumet region car theft operation.The first count of the indictment charges that Kurmis false! v testified before the grand jury as to his relationship with Donald Southern,named in four pending car theft casesIn the second count, Kurmis is charged with lying to the grand jury about two garages he rented. The garages weref und by police to be used as “chop hopi'* where stolen cars were ait tr* and reassembled.The indictment accuses Kur-mi' of f - Is Ay wearing that he did not know the garage wastted in the car theft operation. Wh^n Indiana State Police raided one garage on May 25, thevIBP •# «*'recovered a 19~2 Ford pick-up truck and parts of 12 other vehicles.Policemen and a newspaper reporter testified before the grand jury that they had often observed Kurnus visiting the garage The grand jury began its investigation June 7States(Continued from Page On?) that are “evenhanded, nonse-lective and nonarbitrarv and0requires judges to see to it that general laws are not r -piied sparsely, selectively and spottily to unpopular groups/' Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, one of the dissenters, took heart in the Stewart-White position.He said: “Since the two pivotal concurring opinions turn on the assumption that the punishment of death is now meted out in a random and unpredictable manner, legislative bodies may seek to bring their laws into compliance with the court's ruling by providing standards for juries and judges to follow in determining thesentence in capital cases or bv* * more narrowly defining crimes for which the penalty isto blt;* imn.ic.’Hthe
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Brazil Daily Times
Brazil, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 30, 1972
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