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Experts: People shoot
first, call for help later
DALLAS (AP) — A growing num
ber of Dallas residents are exercising
an option to shoot first, then call po
lice when someone breaks into their
home or property, authorities say.
While authorities say they do not
keep separate statistics on citizens
shooting suspects, police acknowl
edge there has been a recent in
crease in people protecting their
homes and property.
Last year, Dallas had the highest
crime rate in the nation among cities
with populations of 500,000 or
more, according to FBI statistics. Ex
perts say that as crime increases, so
do the number of people who use
deadly force to fight back.
Peter Lesser is a criminal lawyer
and a board member of the Dallas
American Civil Liberties Union.
“We have a frontier state of mind,
and it automatically carries over to
our laws,” Lesser said.
“There’s been a greater tendency
on the part of the penal code when it
was rewritten to make sure that peo
ple have the right to protect them
selves and their property,” Lesser
told the Dallas Morning News.
Although grand juries often vin
dicate their actions, few people know
the Texas Penal Code well enough
to know what circumstances consti
tute a permissible use of deadly
force, prosecutors say.
“We have a frontier state
of mind, and it automat
ically carries over to our
la ws. ”
— Peter Lesser, criminal
la wyer
Texas laws permit citizens to use
deadly force not only in self-defense
but in a variety of other situations,
including stopping someone who is
about to commit burglary, robbery,
nighttime theft or criminal mischief.
State laws also permit citizens to use
deadly force to stop someone from
escaping with their property.
In recent months, grand juries in
Dallas counties have declined to in
dict the following people:
• A 29-year-dld woman heard
her former boyfriend pounding on
her apartment door, demandingm
be let inside. A court had issued a
protective order barring him from
contacting her. After words were ex
changed, she fired one gunshm
through the door to scare him. It
didn’t. He kicked in a window and
started to climb through and she
fired another shot, mortally wound
ing him in the chest.
• A '47-year-old Dallas County
grand jury bailit t shot and killed a
20-year-old man who tried tofleeaf-
ter an apparent burglary attempt at
his home. Hearing a noise in his
back yard about 6 a.m., the bailiff
grabbed a gun and confronted tht
man. When the man attempted to
run away, the bailiff fired two shots,
hitting him in the back and chest.
In another recent case, a woman
in Arlington shot and killed a 25-
year-old University of Texas at At
lington student who lived next door
She said she fired at someone she
saw through her window screen in
the belief he might have been trying
to break in. Police say that case prob
ably will be turned over to a grand
jury within a month.
El Paso police chief plans
to revise use of officer’s fees
EL PASO (AP) — El Paso’s police chief, John Scagno,
said he plans to revise a decades-old practice of police
officers receiving fees for answering questions about
traffic accidents.
The city’s top elected officials previously were un
aware that officers have been charging fees for provid
ing testimony and information about traffic accidents.
The fees, now $35 and up, are routinely paid by in
surance adjusters, private investigators and lawyers.
Written police and sheriffs department policies allow
the practice, but it has not been examined or actively
regulated for years, the El Paso Times reported.
But Scagno was quick to recognize potential prob
lems with the practice.
“We’re going to change it,” Scagno said. “It’s one of
those things that lies on the books dormant until some
one complains.”
Mayor Jonathan Rogers has been in office more than
six years but didn’t know police were authorized to ac
cept such fees.
“It just doesn’t ring right, and as such it will probably
be stopped,” Rogers said.
El Paso County Judge Luther Jones and Sheriff Leo
Samamego said they would re-examine the county pol
icy. Jones, like Rogers, said he had never heard of the
policy.
Louie Akin, a former El Paso police officer who no*
is a private investigator and also chief investigator for
the Texas attorney general’s consumer protection divi
sion, believes the policy needs work.
Akin said he routinely pays $35 and has paid as much
as $50 for interviews with police officers, including
some who were on duty.
“I don’t mind paying them for their time,” Akin said
“I just want to be sure I’m doing it in an ethical man
ner.”
Private investigators often are hired by lawyers who
have a client considering a lawsuit over personal inju
l ies or property damage caused by a traffic accident
Insurance adjusters usually are the first to interviewthe
officers who filed initial accident reports, to confirmor
expand on information in those reports.
“In 10 years of investigation in San Erancisco, I never
once paid an officer for a statement,” Akin said. “In
seven years in El Paso, I have never once taken i
statement from an officer whom I did not have to pay’
Increase in demand
helps timber industry
(AP) — Texas’ timber industry,
which fell on hard times during the
early 1980s, is coming out of the
woods as worldwide demand has in
creased and housing starts nationally
have risen.
Jay O’Laughlin is an associate pro
fessor in Texas A&M University’s
Forest Science Department.
“The industry has certainly
weathered the storm of the early
1980s and the companies that sur
vived are in good shape for the fu
ture,” O’Laughlin said.
While worldwide demand for tim
ber increases, resources around the
globe are declining and more tim-
berlands are being converted to food
production or eaten away by urban
sprawl.
In addition, settlement of a trade
dispute with Canada last year is ex
pected to slow the flow of cheap Ca
nadian lumber across U.S. borders,
increasing the market share for U.S.
production. Demand for pulpwood
also has increased.
For paper mills, 1987 is expected
to be a record production year as the
demand increases for an array of
products, including baby diapers,
napkins and computer paper.
The events spell good news for
Texas’ $6 billion-a-year timber busi
ness.
J.D. Perryman is managing direc
tor of Forestry Investment Man
agers in Houston and president of
its parent company, Texas Gulf*
Timber.
“We are the Arabs of the timber
business,” Perryman said. “We have
the timber resource. Most of the rest
of the world does not.”
The state has 12 million acres of
forest starting in east Harris County,
running north to the Red River and
encompassing all of East Texas, Per
ryman said.
Meanwhile, he said, a U.S. State
Department report says 25 percent
of the world’s timberlands will be
harvested and not replanted over
the next quarter-century.
Prices for standing timber have
more than doubled from May 1986,
Perryman said.
Citizens learn
to accept
nuclear dump
FORT HANCOCK (AP) -
The proposal for a low-level ra
dioactive-waste dump caused a
furor here when it was first intro
duced, but now the plan draws
mostly ambivalent reactions.
More than a year ago, when ge
ologists were drilling test holes to
see if the desert 11 miles north
east of town was suitable for the
site, townspeople talked about
little else.
But now, concern seems to be
fading in the community of 500.
Dan Barton, who owns a gro
cery store near the exit on Inter
state 10, said he thinks there is
nothing residents can do about it.
Yet Barton says residents re
main opposed to the dumn.
“Everybody’s pretty much ac
cepted that,” he told the El Paso
Times. “It’s very unpopular to be
for it. If that thing would provide
20 jobs, I’d be for it. I think we'd
be lucky to get one job out of it."
Royal couple from Spain visits Son Antonio
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — King
Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia of
Spain were greeted Texas-style Sun
day with cowboy hats, country music
and a visit to the Alamo on the first
stop of a week-long visit to the
Southwest.
King Carlos noted the Spanish le
gacy at his first stop, a visit to the In
stitute of Texan Cultures, where the
king and queen were greeted by
country-and-western music and by
about 800 people waving small yel
low and red Spanish flags.
“My first words are to express the
profound satisfaction that the queen
and I experienced at the beginning
of our trip to Texas, New Mexico
and California, three states ... in
which there exists many important
Hispanic minorities that strive for
their identity, their future and that
of this great nation,” the kingsakb
the institute.
“Spain is also very happy to havf
contributed in the passage to forgf
that identity as you today contributt
to make this state one of the raosi
prosperous, beautiful ... in tht
United States,” he said.
Mayor Henry Cisneros and hii
wife, Alice, greeted the royal couplt
and accompanied them on the tout
of San Antonio.
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