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Jury convicts man Authorities race
for officer’s murder | n 0 y 9 0 e *t a h d s ult case
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 27-
year-old ex-convict who claimed he
shot a Beaumont police officer in
self-defense last spring was con
victed of capital murder Tuesday.
The eight-woman, four-man de
liberated less than two hours before
returning the verdict against Mi
chael Lee Lockhart, who was
charged in the March 22 slaying of
Beaumont patrolman Paul D. Hul-
seyjr.
Lockhart, who also is wanted in
slayings in Indiana and Florida, sat
motionless as the verdict was read
and his attorney, Charles Carver, de
clined to speak to reporters outside
the Bexar County courthouse.
However, Jefferson County pros
ecutors said they were thrilled, but
not surprised about the verdict.
“I’m absolutely pleased,” said Dis
trict Attorney Tom Maness. “The
jury weighed it cautiously and came
back with the proper verdict. The
credit goes to a tremendous investi
gation on the part of many law en
forcement agencies.”
The sentencing phase will begin
Thursday.
The trial was moved to San Anto
nio because of the extensive public
ity in Beaumont. Lockhart's trial
gained notoriety in San Antonio
when he jumped out of a third-story
window at the Bexar County Court
house in an unsuccessful escape at
tempt.
He took the stand last week and
said Hulsey provoked an attack that
led to his death.
But Maness said in closing argu
ments Tuesday that it was Lockhart
who provoked Hulsey, who was try
ing to track down the driver of a car
involved earlier in a high-speed
chase.
He also said Lockhart learned to
be cool and collected when commit
ting crimes after spending time in
the Wyoming penitentiary on bur
glary charges.
“He has no regard for any life ex
cept his own,” Maness said of Lock
hart. “If you believe him, then you
give him a stamp of approval to kill a
police officer. If this is the man you
want to believe then put him out
there on the street, in the mall with
your daughter.”
But Carver, a Port Arthur attor
ney, said Hulsey was too eager to
make an arrest and did not follow
police procedure, and that Lockhart
was only protecting himself.
He also said police and prosecu
tors did not present all the evidence
that might have vindicated his client.
“They want you to find Michael
Lee Lockhart guilty and later kill
him because they want to show this
community that we are good law-
abiding citizens,” Carver said.
“They want you to sacrifice this
man so the appetites of the police of
ficers in Beaumont can be satisfied
because they lost a friend,” Carver
said.
Hulsey, 29, was an eight-year vet
eran of the Beaumont Police Depart
ment. His father, Paul Hulsey Sr.,
was a former police chief in Galves
ton.
“My son worked all his adult life
in the system. He believed injustice
and I believe this day justice was car
ried out,” Hulsey said after the ver
dict.
“I grieve very much at the loss of
my son and I grieve at the loss of any
police officer because when you kill
a police officer you kill a piece of
America,” he said.
HOUSTON (AP) — The first at
tempt by federal authorities in the
Southern District of Texas to certify
-juveniles for trial as adults turned
into a race against the clock, officials
say.
Federal prosecutors were seeking
to have two Colombian teen-agers
certified to stand trial as adults un
der a little used federal law on
charges they possessed more than $2
million in cash and cocaine.
But speedy trial provisions in the
statute meant the government could
have to bring the youths to trial by
Friday or risk dismissal of the
charges.
It has become commonplace in
state courts to certify juveniles as
adults, but attorney John Lenoir said
this is the first time federal authori
ties in the Southern District of Texas
have attempted the procedure.
The youths, aged 15 and 16, were
arrested last month, along with five
other Colombians, and indicted on
charges of felony possession of 50 ki
los of cocaine. Authorities also seized
$1.3 million in cash.
Because of the large amount of
money and narcotics involved, Le
noir said he believes he has no re
course except to hold the two ac
countable as adults.
“If we simply return these juve
niles back to Colombia on deporta
tion proceedings without criminal
charges, we would be sending the
wrong message to the cocaine traf
fickers,” he said. “It wouldn’t be
long, we would be deluged with un
derage drug runners.”
Under federal law, a person must
be 18 or older to be charged with a
felony.
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