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United Press International
AUSTIN — A bill allowing
Texas juries to hear as evidence
the tape-recorded confessions of
suspects given during police inter
rogations was approved 30-0 by
the Senate Thursday.
Sen. Bob Glasgow, D-
Stephenville, the sponsor of the
bill, called it “the most important
bill for law enforcement in Texas. ”
But opponents argued during
the debate the proposal would
allow police to coerce suspects to
confess, and then record only the
confessions, and a spokesman for
the Texas Civil Liberties Union
said if the bill passes it will dis
courage suspects from answering
any police questions at all.
“If this bill passes in its present
form, any person who has his
Miranda rights read to him by a
police officer would be very fool
ish to say another word,” said
TCLU Director John Duncan.
“If charges are eventually
brought, the suspects are in effect
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waiving their Fifth Amendment
rights and doing so without the
advice of counsel.”
Glasgow’s bill, which now goes
to the House, would not require
police to advise suspects their
statements are being taped or that
the tapes could be used as evi
dence at their trial.
Current Texas law permits the
use of taped confessions only to
impeach the testimony of a defen
dant during his trial. Glasgow’s
bill allows prosecutors to use the
tapes to obtain indictments, and as
a key prosecution tool.
“Texas is the only state in the
union that does not allow police
officers to testify about the oral
statements made in a custodial in
vestigation,” Glasgow said.
He said some defense attorneys
had opposed his original bill per
mitting police to testify about a
suspect’s oral confessions, so he
amended it to require that the
statements be tape-recorded or
videotaped.
Sen. Hector Uribe, D-
Brownsville, cited incidences in
McAllen, Texas, of police beating
suspects, and said under Glas
gow’s bill police could avoid tap
ing such actions in coercing sus
pects to confess.
“A police officer is not going to
begin to roll the tape until he is
sure he’s got a confession, so what
you’re going to see is the last four
or five minutes of a four-hour in
terrogation,” Uribe said.
The Senate rejected 21-9 an
attempt by Sen. Oscar Mauzy, D-
Dallas, to require police to inform
a suspect his statements were
being taped and could be used as
evidence against him.
“You don’t want to tell a person
being questioned that he’s being
taped, you want to do it surrepti
tiously,” said Sen. Lloyd Doggett,
D-Austin.
“What we’re trying to do is get
back to a viable, usable oral state
ment law,” Glasgow replied.
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Employees’ names subpoenaed
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Federal in
vestigators Thursday said a grand
jury looking for public employees
who are illegally receiving welfare
payments may not receive enough
information for indictments until
mid-summer.
Sponsored by the MSC Traditions Council
FBI agents and U.S. Justice
Department officials said they
have subpoenaed names of 113,000
federal, state and local employees,
hoping to compare those names
with welfare rolls.
FBI agents and the U.S. Attor
ney’s office usually do not
announce pending investigations
but wait until the inquiries are
completed.
The federal investigators said
they are seeking the list of welfare
recipients in “Project Match,” an
attempt to compare lists of public
employees to welfare rolls in eight
south Texas counties.
“If we get prosecutions in this
case, the impact on the commun
ity will be that those who had
thoughts of illegally applying for
welfare might have doubts about
doing it,” said FBI agent and in
vestigation supervisor Albert
Robinson, explaining why there
had been public announcements
of the inquiries.
Meanwhile, Texas Department
of Human Resources officials in
Austin said the agency may chal
lenge federal grand jury sub
poenas asking for confidential lists
of welfare recipients, despite a de
sire to cooperate with federal
agents conducting the investiga
tion.
Bill Wagner, TDHR spokesman
in Austin, said the agency is bound
hy state and federal law to pros
the confidentiality of all clients^
ceiving welfare benefits.
“If we challenge the subpoee
we’re challenging them strict
a formality,” said Warner, Heft[
plained the computer tapes
quested by an April 7 fed
grand jury in San Antonio req
submission of the tapes by Maw
Approximately $92 mil
food stamps and Aid to
with Dependent
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buted to 190,000 people in
counties encompassing thefo
Antonio metropolitan area.
“As far as I know, the inve.#
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only, not the rest of Texas,'
Robinson.
Robinson said that after the#
fare recipient list and public®
ployee lists are received, a com?
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vised in Washington to c .
the lists. He said it will be
summer before the compari*
are presented to the grand ju'
Although some public
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vestigations in New York, I
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dictments for fraud.
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