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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1981
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State
Newjudges could lessen backlog of3,200 cases on appeal
Senate delays debate on jurisdiction of civil courts
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Senate debated more than half an hour
Tuesday on implementation of a plan giving the state’s 14 Civil
Appeals Courts jurisdiction over criminal cases, then post
poned further action until Monday in a dispute over the
number of new judges and how they would be assigned.
The Senate first defeated 20-10 a motion by Sen. Chet
Brooks, D-Pasadena, to postpone further work on the bill
until next week. But stalling tactics by Sen. Lloyd Doggett,
D-Austin, and the prospects of prolonged debate on a series of
amendments apparently convinced the senators to change
their minds, and five minutes later they voted 29-1 to delay
further debate until Monday.
“There were questions about the addition of judges in
Amarillo and Fort Worth, and Sen. (Tati) Santiesteban raised
a question about adding a judge in El Paso,” said Sen. Ray
Farabee, D-Wichita Falls, sponsor of the bill.
“Because of these inquiries, it was my feeling the Senate
could best process this bill Monday rather than on this day. ”
Farabee’s bill would add 21 newjudges to the existing 14
courts of civil appeals to expedite handling of criminal cases.
Currently, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is the only
appellate court for criminal cases, and it has a backlog of four
years with 3,200 cases waiting to be heard.
Farabee initially proposed that 1,400 of those pending cases
be distributed among the 14 intermediate level appellate
courts after Sept. 1 to help erase the backlog, but the Senate
approved 16-14 an amendment by Sen. Jack Ogg, D-Houston,
leaving all 3,200 pending cases before the existing Court of
Criminal Appeals.
Doggett, who has clashed frequently with Gov. Bill Cle
ments concerning appointments, attempted to amend the bill
to have the three newjudges for the 3rd Court of Civil Appeals
in Austin elected rather than appointed by the governor.
Senators rejected that proposal 16-14, and Doggett retali
ated with a lengthy series of questions about another proposal
by Sen. E. L. Short, D-Tahoka, to add a fourth judge to the
Amarillo appellate court.
Short contended a fourth judge would be beneficial to the
Amarillo court, even though state law requires the courts to sit
in panels of three judges.
“What would the fourth judge do while the other three are
meeting?” Doggett asked.
“I guess he could go fishing. If we get some rain we have
some mudcats up there,” Short replied.
The Senate earlier approved and sent to the House a bill by
Brooks removing a current $5 million per biennium ceiling on
spending for educational programs for gifted and talented
students, and requiring that program to be included in the
general appropriations bill rather than financed through spe
cial legislation.
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Police grill
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coin scam
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HOUSTON — A business seek
ing loans in exchange for quality
copies of the South African gold
Krugerrands, worth $588 apiece,
has been operating for 18 months
and has bilked banks,, jewelry
stores and coin shops in at least
four Texas cities, investigators
say.
Houston Police Detective J.C.
Davis said an Amarillo man
arrested in Houston and charged
with theft in the case is believed to
have distributed 100 to 1,000 of
the counterfeit coins a week.
A Secret Service agent said the
Tascosa National Bank in Amarillo
authorized a $270,000 loan backed
by the fake coins.
In Lubbock, as many as 300 of
the bogus Krugerrands could be
afloat, Lubbock County District
Attorney John Montford said.
Evidence of the illegal activity
has also turned up in Dallas.
The coins attracting all the
attention are filled with lead and
coated with 22-karat gold. The
ones Davis has seen cost about $60
to $100 apiece to mint, he said.
“I’ve never seen any (fake coins)
this good,” he said. “They are
good copies. The information we
have is that one of the dies they
use to stamp these things out with
is from South Africa.”
The Krugerrand is minted and
distributed by the South African
government.
Davis disclosed Monday that
Sidney James Heard, 39, a “swap
shop” owner from Amarillo, and
another man were arrested Feb.
18 in Houston after a coin dealer
tipped police to an unusually good
Krugerrand sale being offered
him.
Heard, who Davis called a
“middle man” in the operation,
was charged with two counts of
theft and one count of possessing
cocaine after the jeweler purch
ased the fake coins from him at the
Chemical Bank & Trust Co.
A Houston man who acted as a
broker in the deal was arrested but
not charged, Davis said.
Hunt family
under SEC
investigation
United Press International
DALLAS — Six members of the
wealthy Hunt family have filed
suit against the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission,
arguing the SEC overstepped its
authority in issuing a subpoena of
Hunt-related loan records at First
National Bank in Dallas.
The suit, which seeks to over
turn the subpoena, contains the
first formal acknowledgement by
the Hunts that they have been
under SEC investigation.
The investigation was ordered
against Nelson Bunker Hunt, W.
Herbert Hunt and Bache Group
Inc. in April, eight days after the'
silver market crash that saw the
price of silver drop from a high of
$52.20 to a low of $10.80 in three
months.
The crash left the Hunts about
$1.7 billion in debt and instigated
a stock market panic.
The SEC subpoena asks for “all
contemplated, requested, prop
osed or executed loans, advances,
guarantees, extensions of credit or
other forms of credit extended or
arranged by the bank, directly or
indirectly in amount's greater than
$250,000, to or for the benefit of
the Hunts,” after July 1, 1979. It
was issued to First International
Bancshares, the holding company
which owns First National Bank.
Family members included in
the subpoena and named in the
petition to quash it are Nelson
Hunt, W. Herbert Hunt, Lamar
Hunt, Houston B. Hunt, Douglas
H. Hunt and Albert Huddelston,
an in-law.
In the suit, which was filed
Monday, the family charges the
records requested include impor
tant information about their cur
rent and anticipated oil and gas
holdings that could be used by
companies bidding against the
family.