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Monday, October 7,1985/The Battalion/Page 5 etfet Warped by Scott McCullar at was Ml '■year pb: fortheliB illy held i, ill telltliti ership It ed Tuesdi irarv. Lawyer criticises Maddox’s request of mail ban in TDC Associated Press HOUSTON — An attorney for eview Co Texas prison inmates says the state’s tslortht attempt to restrict mail between pris- tionalAILoners is “preposterous” and a “hys terical reaction” to violence behind Presides bars. inel Robt Saying Texas prison gangs “re- rage [oilemit and organize and plan assaults ussed and murders through the mail,” magedih Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox (I walUi lastweek asked two federal judges to lodelinf! permanently bar most correspon- ry stil dence between inmates. : “Through privilege of correspon dence, inmates organize illegal activ- .AiAity and foment disruption,” a JS C lengthy legal brief filed Friday in federal court says. loasaftnK. But Donna Brorby, a lawyer for prisoners waging a long-standing le gal battle with the Texas Depart ment of Corrections, denounced the state’s motion and termed it “a hys terical reaction” to inmate violence. “I think it is preposterous to argue that by restricting inmates’ mail, TDC is going to do anything mean ingful to end inmate violence,” she said. Twenty-seven inmates have been killed by other convicts this year in the Texas prison system, the nation’s second largest. Last year, 25 died in outbreaks of inmate violence. Brorby said inmate gang mem bers would get around any corre spondence restrictions by using in termediaries in the “free world” to ‘send mail toother prisoners. She said tight restrictions on in mate mail would be “punishing ev rybody for the act^ of a very few” and would do little to end violence. “Inmates are, after all, human be ings,” she said. “It seems that what the state wants to do would be a blanket restriction and unfair pun ishment.” The state is now proposing that inmate-to-inmate correspondence be limited to immediate family mem bers, parties or witnesses in the same legal action and those in “excep tional circumstances.” Boy-genius in college age 9 Associated Press band i? lij Immnwii had mtiq u Band,lii s roundtea s of 1^1 band’s kJ ed in Mi' | Jnd? i| s HOUSTON — Like any 9- vear-old, David Huang likes He- l ers Man and Scooby-Doo cartoons, n fronifaH^ 6 a * S() enjoys classes in or ganic chemistry and microcom puter graphics at the University haver, of St. Thomas. ame few Unlike most 9-year-olds, David nd. Thfllisa genius. At age 6 his IQ mea- uM-urf: sured 159. music I® “My dad wants me to graduate i that teSfrom Rice University,” says Da vid, who’s been enrolled at St. Thomas fora year. “But I want to ■ graduate from here. Everybody is warm, nice and friendly.” . 1 David, whose mother helps W" 11 him cross the city streets that run through the campus, expects to graduate from St. Thomas at 12 OUl or 13 and remain for advanced studies on his way to a doctorate andanM.D. [ David, however, may opt to at tend medical school at John Hop kins University in Maryland. [ “But they won’t take me until I am 12,” he says. j Mrs. Huang says David does not avoid the occasional spanking — like the one he got when he filled the bathroom with bubbles from a bottle of baby shampoo. Tip leads police to ‘Over-The-Hill Gang’ Associated Press GRAND PRAIRIE — An anony mous tip helped police in this city west of Dallas wrap up a five-year- old murder they now blame on two members of the “Over-The-Hill Gang.” Grand Prairie police say the two men who killed Ken Smartt were both slain shortly after they shot Smartt, 52, and robbed his finance company of about $7,000. Detective Richard Bender said a Sept. 6 informant’s tip linked the July 18, 1980, murder to a group of elderly and middle-aged men known as the “Over The Hill Gang.” Authorities say the gang is re sponsible for a number of armed robberies in the area in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bender said members of the gang were “very, very heavy into heroin use” and mainly robbed grocery stores. The gang members were identi fied as Gerald Clifford Howard, 43 at the time of the murder, and John Ernest Lucas, then 42. Bender said the informant told E olice that Howard and Lucas told im they shot and robbed Smartt. The detective said Howard got out of a Texas prison on Feb. 5, 1980 and Lucas escaped from a Kan sas prison on June 4, 1980. He said the pair came to Grand Prairie on July 17, 1980, the day before Smartt was slain. “A witness told me that Lucas did the shooting,” Bender said. “He was supposedly mad because he didn’t think he got as much money as he thought he should have (in the rob bery).” Bender said he traced the men to Pineville, La., where they teamed up with a third man. He said the trio took $24,000 in a grocery store rob bery on July 20, 1980. They then went to San Antonio, where Lucas rented an apartment, Bender said. On July 26, police found Lucas at the apartment, mur dered. “The informant said there had been a lot of dissension between Lu cas and Howard,” Bender said. “Lu cas accused Howard of freezing up on the job and chickening out.” Howard’s body was found Oct. 17, 1980 in Montgomery County. He had been shot twice in the chest and once in the abdomen, Bender said. A man who helped Howard kill Lucas pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He is now free, Bender said. Bender said the anonymous infor mant contacted police through the local Crime Stoppers hotline. “He told me that he didn’t come forward (earlier) because he was afraid of these people (Over The Hill Gang members),” Bender said. Northern Telecom ...A Rational Career Choice The merger of computer technology and telecommunications has made our industry THE growth field for the 80’s and beyond. As a dynamic company that deals in communications technology, we can offer a wealth of challenges to graduates in Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Finance/Accounting, Business Systems and Human Resources. With facilities in 14 major U.S. cities, we can probably match your desires with an area that offers the climate and amenities you want. Since we believe in promotion based on achievement, you can set your own pace for advancement. 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