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IRS uses computers to collect
R.l.
by Paul Dirmeyer
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — An In
ternal Revenue Service official
said the agency would begin a
computerized system Monday
aimed at collecting delinquent
federal taxes from about 35,567
Louisiana residents.
New Orleans District Direc
tor Jack Chivatero said an Auto
mated Collection System in
Houston would begin making
computerized long-distance
telephone calls to deliquent tax
payers in Texas and Louisiana.
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IRS billing process for delin
quent accounts will be affected
by the ACS,” Chivatero said.
He said the system would sig
nificantly cut collection costs
and enable the IRS to gather
more back taxes.
“Only taxpayers who have
He said delinquent accounts
in Louisiana represent about
1.7 percent of the almost 2 mil
lion the IRS plans to contact na
tionwide.
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Assistant district attorney enjoys
keeping justice in Brazos County
By REBECCA DIMEO
Reporter
For attorney Rodney Boyles,
prosecuting isn’t just a job until
something better comes along
— it’s the “good stuff.”
Boyles, an assistant district at
torney in Brazos County for al
most two years, feels a calling in
his work.
“Prosecutors believe what
they are doing is really holy, like
they are ordained by God to be
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prosecutors,” he says.
However, Boyles says pros
ecutors aren’t the only ones to
glorify their legal positions.
“Defense attorneys feel the
same way (about their jobs),” he
says. “They feel like prosecutors
are heathens.”
Boyles sees his job as some
thing more “honest” than a typ
ical lawyer’s. The difference in
“typical” is that he makes the
same money whether he wins or
loses a case since he is a county
employee.
“Lawyers aren’t hired to do
what’s fair,” he says. “They’re
hired to do what’s in the best in
terest of the client.”
Boyles isn’t always sure how
fair the court system is either.
“As a prosecutor you take an
oath to see that justice is done,”
he says. “Now what that means
is anybody’s guess. If you’re the
victim of a violent crime, justice
may be stringing a guy up to the
nearest telephone pole.”
A snapshot hangs in Boyles’
office of a man tried for aggra
vated rape, his first rape case.
He says it was a hard case to
lose. Although the jury found
the man not guilty, Boyles is still
trying to decide for himself if
he was innocent.
And yet, Boyles strongly sup
ports the criminal justice system
in the U.S. —especially a jury
trial.
“The only remaining direct
participation is the jury system,
and I’m not willing to throw
tha!t out,” he says. “You’re as en
titled to a jury trial if you’re
going 55 in 9 45 mph zone as if
you shot your mother.”
Although Boyles wins about
80 percent of his cases, the same
rate as the overall office, he says
that bigger offices are much
more successful. For example,
he says a particular district at
torney’s office in Houston wins
up to 99 percent of its cases and
life verdicts are common.
“When you lose, you go over
everything you do,” he says.
“You go back to the voir dire, to
the very beginning. You think,
‘maybe if I’d have smiled more,
if I’d have laughed more, if I’d
have worn a different suit.’”
Boyles deals with felony cases
in the district attorney’s office.
Felonies are crimes that may re
sult in prison time, such as rape,
robbery, murder, theft and
forgery.
That he works with persons
accused of violent crimes
doesn’t seem to bother him, es-
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since his job is to argue
for the victims.
“A lot of murderers are nor
mal people who lose their tem
pers,” he says. “Now rapists are
low-lifes.”
i Boyles, 26, says he thinks that
parents have the biggest effect
on the value system of a child.
He says that value system af
fects the person’s view of the
law.
Boyles became interested in
law after he tried teaching high
school math in the Dallas Inde
pendent School District. At 20,
he had graduated from North
Texas State University just one
week before being thrust into
the classroom.
Although Boyles majored in
secondary education with his
tory and political science as his
teaching fields, he was asked to
teach basic algebra, a course he
said was aimed at the slow stu
dents. The number of 19-year-
olds in his class reinforced that
feeling.
“You could have a kid who
didn’t even know how to multi
ply,” he says. “And, he would be
under such intense peer pres
sure that he couldn’t admit he
didn’t know how to multiply, so
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