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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1977
Page
13
Los Angeles County supervisors asked officials to prepare monthly reports detailing verdicts and sentences in completed murder trials and to show two year murder arrest, trial, conviction and sentencing figures. Hahn called murders of the elderly an epidemic and urged faster prosecutions and tougher sanctions.
Los Angeles County supervisors demanded answers on why public defenders in Inglewood defend prostitutes who may earn up to 500 dollars daily. They cited a letter from Inglewood City Attorney Donald Olson alleging nine prostitutes were represented as indigent, despite earnings of 10 to 800 dollars per day. Prostitution hubs near Hollywood Park race track and Century Boulevard were noted.
Former congressman John Schmitz, 1972 American Independent Party nominee, petitioned California Supreme Court to compel Attorney General Evelle Younger to prepare a summary for his anti-busing initiative. He argues the measure concerns education as a single subject, despite proposing limits on tax funding for integration, teacher strikes, and union political contributions.
Gov Brown signs Cullen bill requiring property tax notices to mark with an asterisk all tax-rate portions set by county supervisors who also run special districts. In LA County 287 districts exist. 291 administered by five supervisors. The measure aims to reveal supervisors’ tax increases despite opposition claiming it may not clarify roles.
Los Angeles supervisor Baxter Ward won support to hold a public hearing on no code orders where doctors withhold life sustaining treatment. He cited a county patient’s death and promised the session next Wednesday to examine patient rights, medical ethics, and the recent right to tactic law debates.
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