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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 13. 1980 Red They're waving their rights Judges hear unusual testimony United Press International HOUSTON — Over at die Harris County Courthouse, they’ve heard them all, but it’s the funny ones they remember. State District Judge Fred Hooey recalls the time he faced a man who had pleaded innocent to a charge of stealing frozen chickens. “Are you the defendant, sir?” Hooey asked. “No, sir, I’m the guy who stole the chickens,” the defendant answered. Judge Lee Duggan once said to a defendant: “You have a right to a trial by jury, but you may waive that right. Which do you wish to do?” The defendant hesitated. His lawyer said firmly, “Waive. ” The de fendant raised his hand and waved at the judge. Judge Frank Price routinely asked a defendant whether anyone had promised him an easy sentence in exchange for pleading guilty. “Has anyone led you to believe the governor will pardon you if you plead guilty?” the judge asked. “Well, I haven’t been home, judge, but he might have called my mother,” the defendant replied. Then there was the time Duggan had a man ask him for a “personal intoxication bond” rather than the proper personal recognizance bond, which sets the defendant free with out having to deposit any money. And there was the woman who, when asked if she was “hysterical,” said, “Oh no, sir. I had my hysterical at Ben Taub Hospital after my sixth baby.” One defense lawyer tried to chal lenge a witness’ objectivity by asking: “The truth of the matter is that you are not an unbiased, objec tive witness, isn’t it? You, too, were shot in the fracas?” “No, sir,” the witness replied. “I was shot midway between the fracas and the navel.” Judge Jimmy James announced he would sentence a man to 12 years in prison. Following the usual routine. James told the man he could be sent enced formally immediately or wait 10 days. “Judge, I need more time,” the defendant replied. “You’ve got 12 years. How much more time do you want?” James said. Judge Wallace “Pete” Moore once tried to calm a young child who took the witness stand in his court by asking her when her birthday was. She said Christmas. “I don’t think I’ve ever known any one bom on Christmas,” Moore said. Moore said he didn’t realize his faux pas until the child looked back at him with a shocked expression. Judge Joe Kegans once had to help a prosecutor communicate with a witness. “Does Mr. Brown frequent that general locale with regularity?” the prosecutor asked. “What?” said the witness, who could not grasp the question. Judge Kegans leaned over and rephrased the question: “Does Jerry hang around the pool hall a lot?” Stay up late for the meteor show^ JL san AN it comes around once in a lifetin United Press International Star gazers trained their telescopes on the north ern part of the sky Monday night and early Tuesday for the annual Perseid meteor shower, which will be visible each night this week. It’s been more than a century since the Swift- Tutde Comet swept past the Earth, but the particles it left behind are once again providing a spectacular sky show. The Swift-Tuttle Comet, last seen in 1862, is on its way back toward the sun and wasn’t expected to make an appearance until 1982. Each time it passes around the sun and heads back into deep space it crosses the earth’s orbit, leaving its SAN AN will need a rampage o Sue Wh trail of primitive space debris for the earth ti would cost through. following tl The fragments hit the forward movement to return t earth’s atmosphere at about 80 miles at 130,000 been sent t causing a brilliant display. Wheatin “About 50 (particles) pier hour may be seen, three days Thomas Baur, a spokesman for the National ( other nece for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. “ 'Antonio sh earth intersects their orbit, it acts like a va< The Red sucking the particles downward. ” being colie Baur said viewers during the early evening si look to the northeast for the shooting stars; lat look higher in the sky and more to the north, pre-dawn hours viewers should look towan northwest. The add Blvc ‘Threats’ to Afghan children United Press International NEW DELHI, India — The Soviet-installed regime is brain washing Afghan children with threats, beatings and pxditical indoc trination until they swear to suppxjrt the government, a former Afghan official has charged. The official said Monday his own son had been arrested and impris oned for 23 days for participating in a shouting demonstration at a school six weeks ago against Afghan Presi dent Babrak Karmal’s Parchamite faction. “The new approach of (the presi dent's) Parchamities is to arrest young students and boys between the agbs of 13 and 21 in batches of 200 to 300 for a short period of 20 to 25 days,” he said. “During that time, they are sub jected to threats, brainwashing and in a few cases physical violence. “Many of these boys apparently fell in line by giving written assur ances they would not pjarticipate in anti-government movements and would inform on others if aproached to do so,” he said. The official, interviewed in New Delhi, said he did not want to be identified because he was planning to return to Afghanistan. He said new divisions within Kar- mal’s Communist Party over the issues of law and order and the pre sence of Soviet troops have further weakened his government. One faction, including Karmal supporters, insists the Afghan gov ernment which came to power with the Soviet invasion in December should have authority to interpret and apply Afghan laws and those of the People’s Democratic Party. A second group, calling itself na tionalist, has publicly criticized Kar mal for conducting a lawless state, saying he had identified his Parcha mite followers in a series of murders and crimes against the Afghan people. The third splinter faction dis agrees with Karmal on the presence of Soviet occupation forces and have demanded they be ordered to leave. Karmal’s own faction insists the ruling Communists will fall to Mos lem extremists without the Soviet presence, the former official said. j fust three weeks after the mid- y purge of officials in Karmal’s riv al Khalq faction during a secret, emergency plenum of the Commun ist Party, the factions have weakened his government despite the removal of his severest critics in the upp>er echelons of the bureaucracy. “It was throwing out the baby with the water,” the former official said. “They may have been (Karmal’s) enemies but they were among the few able adminstrators left in the country.” Acnm with mttr ADS SAFEWAY BACK-T0 - SCHOOL Elmer's School Glue A Necessity for School Days! OPEN 24 HOURS 7 DAYS A WEEK! AN EXPRESS CHECKSTAND IS OPEN 8 AM 'TIL MIDNIGHT FOR 9 ITEMS OR LESS1 LAST 2 WEEKS TO Pap ermate "98" Pens U" V1ood Ruler q« 0 Marko Markers School Scissors f AIVI1 L 1 CIRCLCVlfE AT | VE As * ort ed, SPECIAL! Each O 7 AVi", Blunt or Pointed, SPECIAL! 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