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Hospital won’t
say if worker
was fired for
value judgment
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Associated Press
SAN ANGELO — Officials of a
Catholic hospital won’t say if a letter
written by an employee chastizing
anti-abortionists had anything to do
with the worker’s firing.
Nursing assistant Noel Singleton,
32, defended freedom of choice for
women faced with unwanted preg
nancy in a letter that appeared Jan.
27 in the San Angelo Standard-
Times.
Richard Boyd, vice president of
business services, refused to say if
Singleton was fired because of the
letter he wrote.
“We have no policy that prevents
employees from speaking out freely.
They have a right to say and express
whatever opinions they have and we
have a lot of people who write let
ters,” said Boyd, who is in charge of
hiring and firing at the hospital.
San Angelo Bishop Michael
Pfeifer has asked for an investiga
tion into why Singleton was fired the
day after his letter was published.
Pfeifer said Tuesday he was not
aware of Singleton’s dismissal from
the Catholic hospital or any of the
incidents leading to it. He said he
would check into the hospital codes
and procedures and examine how
hospital officials explain them to em
ployees.
Singleton said he did not rep
resent himself as a hospital em
ployee in his letter, which read in
part: “Let them (pro-life cam
paigners) march a trench around my
courthouse! their right to judge, ac
cuse and deplore ends exactly where
the individual woman’s rights be
gin.”
He said, “Sane women ought to
come forth to sign that petition (call
ing for an abortion ban) with the
meaningful pseudonym, ‘Frita
Choose.’ ”
Singleton said his dismissal was
upheld by the director of employee
services, Robert Rastellini, who han
dles employee grievances.
Around tom
Baylor Law School Scholarships:
Baylor University’s School of Law offers three tuition fra id
arships annually to outstanding Texas A&M siudems entering J
lor’s Law School. T hese are the Joseph Milton Nance Schote 1
good for one year, but are renewable for the second and third J
of law school on condition the recipient is doing g<x>d work.Sti
for one of these
interested in making applications
scholarship!;
come effective at entrance in the Summer or Fall Quarter, i
obtain application forms from Dr. J. M. Nance in 560 Harris;
Building. College of Liberal Arts. It is essential thatacopyof
L$AT scores accompany your application. Applications artdsf
Feb. 7, 1986.
The Big Event:
All individual students and student organizations areetre
aged to volunteer their services to “The Big Event” on Matdi
Applications are available on the second floor of the MSCintht!
dent Programs office and on the second floor of the Pavilion:
Student Government office Applications are due Feb. 21. For;
information call 845-3051
Hart Hall:
; A square dance will be sponsored by Hart Hall and thtBr
College Station Chamber of Commerce to promote Adopt-a-fc
as a community service project l ot student organizations ati
Adopt-a-School is a project organized bv the Chamber of Coiie
to improve the quality of education at the public schools. Anyoa
terested in Adopt-a-School should come to the square dance
ware Field House on Feb. 8 from 9 p m. to midnight.
Off Campus Aggies:
npuj
tne
domino tournament at'
Monday at the Dixie Chicken, happy hour at Casa Tomajl:
>.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, and a "sock hop" Friday in Dewart
Louse with benefits going to the MDA. For more informaa:
Joyce, 696-3826.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha:
In recognition of Black History Month the Pi PsiChaptei
pha Kappa Alpha Sorority, In< presents ‘Hidden Racism''
Verna Keith, assistant prof essot of Sociology . Saturday at lit:
607 Rudder.
Court overturns conviction
of man in daughter’s killini
Associated Press
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PI SIGMA EPSILON
AUSTIN — The state’s top crimi
nal appeals court Wednesday threw
out the conviction of an Arizona
man found guilty of strangling his 4-
year-old daughter, a girl he said was
in a fight with the devil.
In a 6-3 decision, the Court of
riminal Appeals ordered David
huessler acquitted. The court bar
red further prosecution of
Scimessler, who had been sentenced
to ^0 years in prison in the Jan. 24,
1981), death of Collette Marie
Schuessler.
The girl’s body was found by a
Border Patrol agent alongside Inter
state 10 near Sierra Blanca.
Schuessler offered an insanity de
fense but was convicted. The El Paso
Court of Appeals later reversed the
decision aryd sent the case back for
retrial. But the Court of Criminal
Appeals said Wednesday there
should be no.retrial because the re
versal was necessitated by insuffi
cient evidence.
Judge W.C. Davis said in the
court’s opinion, “We hold that no ra
tional trier of fact could have found
that (Schuessler) failed to establish
his affirmative defense of insanity by
a preponderance of the evidence.”
Defense lawyer Charles Mallin of
El Paso said his client faces several
years of psychiatric treatment in a
mental health facility.
“He won’t be on the streets,” Mal
lin said. “The man is mentally ill, ex
tremely mentally ill. He should be in
a mental institution. At this point I
think he has a problem for many
years to come.”
El Paso County Assistant District
Attorney Robert Dinsmoor said
that
“The man is mentally ill,
extremely mentally ill. He
should be in a mental in
stitution. At this point I
think he has a problem for
many years to come. ”
Defense lawyer Charles
Mallin.
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bly had some problems. We did not
feel he was insane by the legal stan
dards.”
According to court records, fam
ily members said Schuessler’s behav
ior changed in October 1979. The
Phoenix family noted that he “be
came withdrawn and expressed
baseless fi
jeopardy.”
On Jan. 16, 1980, hemei
and daughter at a Phoenix
mat and asked themtoflet
to the San Carlos Indian Rest 1
in Arizona, where his wifela I
The next day, SchuessleM
daughter and drove towanii |
He was stopped by all
uty and fined for driving*’
license. The girl was notwal
Schuessler told deputies
his daughter were “hexed
A deputy said Schuessler
that “a devil in the form oil
horse was trying to takete 1
ter’s soul, that he hadseenl*
swell and her arms andlejij
and that he had killed herijS
save her soul.”
He said he disposed od|
but did not recall where
Several psychiatrists calW
defense testified thatScW L
suf fering from acute para® |;
chosis.
J ucfges W.C. Davis, T(® 1
Marvin Teague, Charles &
Sam H ouston Clinton anil
Miller voted for acquitia 1
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and Bill White dissented
writing an opinion.
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