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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.
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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
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age 9
Associated Press
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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.
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