Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, October 6,1983
Indictments sought
in civil rights case
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SAN ANTONIO — A civil
rights group is seeking indict
ments against several Texas De
partment of Corrections offi
cials for the alleged beatings of
inmates in the state prison sys-
tem, a spokesman said
Wednesday.
Ken Pallend of Alternatives
to Imprisonment said San Anto
nio attorney Ruben Sandoval
will serve as a special prosecutor
to try to obtain indictments
against the TDC officials in Bra
zoria County in the next two
weeks.
Sandoval will present evi
dence against David Christian,
warden at the Darrington Unit
at Rosharon, and other TDC
officials, who allegedly partici
pated in the Sept. 16 beating of
inmate Frank Cerventes.
Cerventes, who had to be
admitted to the intensive care
unit at John Sealy Hospital, was
handcuffed when he was beaten
by Christian and four TDC
guards, Pallend said.
Christian was unavailable for
comment.
Sandoval is seeking the
cooperation of the Brazoria
-County district attorney’s office
in obtaining the indictments, but
said he will act without it if neces
sary.
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HOUSTON — Former San
Jacinto County Sheriff James
“Humpy” Parker, convicted of
water-torturing prisoners to ex
tract confessions, surrendered
to federal marshals Wednesday
on other charges.
Parker, 47, went before a fed
eral magistrate and was charged
with conspiring to falsely arrest
motorists near Coldspring to
take money from them.
A prosecutor contends Par
ker and four others selected
automobiles with Louisiana
license plates or bumper stickers
promoting a Houston rock
music station to stop without
probable cause.
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The government charged the
defendants strip-searched some
motorists, took them to jail and
made them pay $300 to $400 to
get out. The defendants were
also said to have damaged vehi
cles to create false evidence.
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wind. Kleinhenz was caught browsing
around the Fall Craft Festival, near the
Memorial Student Center.
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The others charged were Par
ker’s son, Gary, a former reserve
deputy sheriff; Robert Rice, a
former deputy sheriff; and bail
bondsmen James Browder and
Herb Atwood.
Auto devices advocated
Parker and three former San
Jacinto County deputies were
found guilty last month of
violating the civil rights of pris
oners by torturing them.
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SAN ANTONIO — The fed
eral government made a “se
rious error” in rescinding airbag
and seat belt regulations, and
the decision has led to continued
carnage on American highways,
the president of the United Ser
vices Automobile Association
said Wednesday.
USAA insures about 1.5 mil
lion U.S. military personnel
worldwide.
“When it comes to saving
people’s lives, a lot of the dereg
ulation arguments go out the
window,” President Robert F.
McDermott said. “There is a
case for enlightened govern
ment regulation where public
safety is concerned.”
McDermott, a retired air
force general, told members of
the American Association for
Automotive Medicine that he is
anxious to see the National
Highway Transportation Safety
Administration’s new regulation
regarding passive restraints,
due for release Oct. 15.
deaths and serious injuries
caused by head-on and front-
angle collisions.
Up to 63 percent of the acci
dents causing serious injury in
1981 involved a frontal or front-
angle collision, he said.
“I do believe that thedi
of thousands of
year and serious injuries tot
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leans is 71 j
McDermott, a long-time
advocate of airbags, said such
passive restraints as automatic
seat belts and airbags would
greatly reduce the number of
“In my view, Washington
made a serious error when the
administration rescinded the
passive restraint regulation,”
McDermott said. “Yet the admi
nistration, in the name of ‘get
ting government of the people’s
backs,’ rescinded the regulation,
ten and
omen, by tl
of thousands more needsiijf^ 21sl CC
addressed without let up^fshould be C\
segments of our society.”
McDermott announced
USAA will replace its corpt
fleet of 150 automobiles*
new, airbag-equippedFf
Motor Co. Tempos.
and so today the carnage on our
highways and roads continues.
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with the Government Sera
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CANYON — Two Randall
County deputies left for Okla
homa and Kansas Wednesday in
a search to recover more saddles
stolen from Canyon in Septem
ber, Sheriff Cliff Longest said.
Two men and a woman were
in jail on burglary and theft
charges Wednesday.
Glen Edward Richardson, 23,
was charged with burglary and a
$20,000 bond was set late Tues
day by Randall County Justice of
the Peace E.J. Hail. Richardson
listed no address.
Gloria Gamble, 34, of Ca
nyon and Donald Ray Bass, 30,
of Florida each were dill]
with one count of burglar)!
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charge, court officials said.
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of the 17 stolen saddle:]
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