Wednesday, May 4, 1988AThe Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
ttorneys say
Brandley’s race
biased decision
University Police buy new blue patrol cars
CONROE (AP) — The prosecu-
ion of Clarence Lee Brandley was
pressure Iracially prejudiced in his trial for the
?ood ret 11980 rape-strangulation of a Bel-
ly ar mS r ff v iH e teen-ager, his attorneys said in
ir, i an appeal to the Texas Court of
>P “"Criminal Appeals.
“Regardless of the state’s repeated
iroclamations that the prosecution
f Clarence Lee Brandley was color-
lind, the facts prove the state’s as
sertions hollow,” wrote defense at-
orneys Mike DeGeurin, Don Brown
md Paul Nugent of Houston in a 78-
Dage brief filed with the court Mon-
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The Austin-based appellate court
will consider written arguments
from both sides before deciding if
a bargain the 36-year-old black man, a former
Conroe High School janitor, will re
ceive a third capital murder trial in
the Aug. 23, 1980 murder of Cheryl
DeeFergeson, 16.
The white teen-ager was killed at
the school where she had gone for a
volleyball tournament.
By Shannon O’Neal
Staff Writer
Students and faculty will be seeing
blue instead of red from now on
when the University Police pull them
over.
The department recently pur
chased new blue patrol cars to pre
sent a more professional image on
campus, Bob Wiatt, director of Uni
versity Police, said.
“For a long time we’ve been want
ing to give the impression to the peo
ple on this campus that we are a real,
viable police agency,” Wiatt said.
“People associate blue police cars
with municipal police agencies and
law enforcement.”
He said the cars’ blue paint was
chosen to reflect that association,
since the University Police, College
Station Police Department and
Bryan Police Department have blue
patrol cars.
He said the three police agencies
had discussed getting similar cars to
reduce visual distinctions among
them.
“Anytime that you see a blue car
with a light bar and a cage in it, you
might presume it is a police car,”
Wiatt said.
Frank Velleca, assistant transpor
tation services manager for A&M,
said the new cars are part of the nor
mal replacement system for Univer
sity police vehicles, which are re
placed on a regular cycle.
Wiatt said the department waited
until it could replace all of its cars at
once so it could order the blue cars.
He said the seven new Chevrolet
Caprices cost about $18,000 each.
They are more expensive than stan
dard models because of special fea
tures including partitions that sepa
rate the front seat from the back,
light bars, sirens, radios and what
Velleca calls a “police package.”
The “police package” the depart
ment installed into the new vehicles
includes special shocks absorbers,
tires and suspension, a larger engine
and auxiliary engine cooling equip
ment.
A&M Transportation Services
took separate bids for the basic auto
mobile package and the additional
equipment, Velleca said. The trans
portation services shop mounted all
of the equipment and took the cars
to Texas Communications in Bryan
for the electronics connections, he
said.
Patrol cars last four years to five
1 years or about 90,000 miles, Velleca
said.
Photo by Kathy Haveman
Vici Jarrott, a University Police officer, gets into one of the newly painted squad cars.
The defense’s written arguments
outline findings of fact and conclu
sions of law by retired Midland State
District Judge Perry Pickett along
with testimony from the October evi
dentiary hearings over which he pre
sided.
Pickett found Brandley to be in
nocent of the crime.
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Pickett wrote the appeals court,
saying he found many of the state
witnesses, including former Mont-
jomery County District Attorney
ompassic; lames Keeshan, who prosecuted the
| :ase, and State District Judge John
, , Martin, who presided during the
iincl chop. tr j a j tQ j ess t j ian credible.
But
The defense cites extensive testi-
Imony from the evidentiary hearing
-• .gjrelated to claims for relief for
Singleton; 'Brandley, and said it showed.
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DALLAS (AP) — Dallas billionaire Ross
Perot said Tuesday that he turned to presi
dential candidate Jesse Jackson for a 1985 se
cret mission to Beirut because of his track re
cord of successfully negotiating a hostage’s
release from Middle East captors.
Perot said he was contacted by agents in the
National Security Council. The council asked
Perot to organize and finance a rescue at
tempt with Jackson for CIA agent William
Buckley.
“I’ve seen guys in our government who
have all the responsibility for getting hostages
back turn to jelly,” Perot told the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram in an exclusive interview.
“Jesse Jackson just went over there and did
his thing, and it worked.”
He told the Dallas Morning News that “the
guy did what he was asked to do by our gov
ernment and he never grand-standed. His re
cord is two-for-two.”
Perot said he considered the mission a sue- •
cessful one — even though Buckley even
tually was killed — because another American
hostage escaped.
“When you are headed into a mess like Be-
rut, where there is more than one hostage,
and you’ve got language barriers and you’ve
got cultural barriers, if you get the wrong
guy, don’t be too surprised,” Perot said. “I
was pleased he got one American out.”
Revelations of the Jackson mission
emerged this week with the publication of a
new book, “Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall
of Oliver North.”
The biography by Boston Globe reporter
Ben Bradlee Jr. says the government sought
Jackson’s help after his success a year earlier
securing the 1983 release of Navy pilot Rob
ert Goodman held in Syria.
Perot said he met privately with Jackson in
Atlanta before the Chicago civil rights leader
left on his hostage misson to London and
Rome. Perot paid Jackson’s expenses —
roughly $30,000 — and sent an associate with
him to “make sure he had everything he'
needed.”
“I was called and asked to help on a prob
lem,” Perot said. “We had one hostage, Buck-
ley, who knew too much and it was very im-
• portant to get him back. Somebody asked
who had a track record on getting somebody
out of Beirut, and Jackson was the only one
who had.”
Jackson told Perot shortly after his return
that one of the American hostages would be
freed soon, Perot said. A few days later, Je
remy Leving, the Beirut bureau chief of Ca
ble News Network, escaped from his captors.
Perot said NSC officials did not want to ap
proach Jackson for help, perhaps for political
reasons.
On several other occasions, North enlisted
Perot to help ransom American hostages in
Iran, Perot said.
“The list of people who take a chance like
this is very short,” Perot said of Jackson. “The
list of people who have news conferences and
shed tears is very long. He never blinked, he
went.”
The Chicago minister neither accepted
payment for the mission nor sought publicity
after it, Perot said, who also financed a well-
publicized rescue mission of employees of his
EDS Corp. from Iran in the 1970s.
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