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Wednesday, September 2,:
Money speaks in court races
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — Consumer groups,
citing a new study they said
shows special interests contribut
ing millions to Texas Supreme
Court candidates, called Tuesday
for reform of judicial campaign fi
nances.
"The overwhelming concern is
... money talks, and the amount of
money that is being contributed is
obscene," said Tom Smith of the
group Public Citizen.
Austin consumer lawyer David
Bragg, who financed the study
with other trial lawyers, said more
than 87 percent of the $11 million
spent on Supreme Court races in
1988 and 1990 came from special
interests. Those included lawyers,
doctors and business interests, he
said.
For 1992 races so far, Bragg
said, 79 percent of the $3.26 mil
lion in contributions have come
from special interests.
"The Supreme Court conducts
all of its deliberations in secret ...
When secret deliberations and
large contributions are combined,
an appearance of impropriety is
created," said Bragg, who was
Gov. Ann Richards' citizen advo
cate on nursing homes.
Smith said a large amount of
campaign spending goes unno
ticed. When a political action com
mittee pays for ads to help a slate
of candidates, the individual can
didates don't report that money.
Self-imposed limits on individ
ual contributions are deceiving,
Bragg said. He said the practice of
"bundling" allows many mem
bers of a single large law firm to
give money separately to one can
didate.
Bragg said he doesn't believe
candidates should be blamed for
what he called a flawed system.
"If we had the power to indict,
we would indict the system," he
said. "You cannot run a successful
campaign for the Supreme Court
without huge amounts of mon-
ey."
Smith advocated a ban on pri
vate contributions, saying judicial
elections should be financed by
adding $10 to the cost of filing a
lawsuit.
Karl Bayer of the Texas Con
sumer Association, an. unsuccess
ful Supreme Court candidate in
1988, suggested that a special tax
on lawyers be considered.
The study said that short of
public financing, some immediate
changes could make the process
more open.
The report recommended re
quiring law firms that "bundle"
contributions to disclose the firm's
total donation; requiring lawyer-
donors to reveal whether they
have cases pending with the
court; and disclosing the occupa
tion and employer of all contribu
tors.
Texas Supreme Court Chief Jus
tice Tom Phillips agreed that
change is needed. But he said the
study "has an ax to grind" and
that his record wasn't presented
fairly.
The study said Phillips, a Re
publican who ran in 1988 and
1990, accepted the most money
from political action committees
among successful Supreme Court
candidates during those cam
paigns. It said all those candidates
accepted PAC money.
The only justice who ran in
both elections, after being ap
pointed tQ a partial term, PWUips
accepted $429,958 in PAC money,
the study said.
Error in toxicology report
Lawyer argues for murder retrial
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LUBBOCK — An attorney for a convicted murder
er says his client deserves a new trial because of dis
crepancies in a toxicology report, but indicted
pathologist Ralph Erdmann has refused to take the
blame.
"Never have I falsified anything," Erdmann said
Monday. "That I'm human and can do errors, yes.
But intentionally? Never."
Erdmann testified Monday during the first day of
a hearing to determine whether Richard Jaxson, con
victed in the murder of Lubbock waitress Tammy A.
Everett, is entitled to a new trial based on the dis
crepancy.
The evidence from the courtroom testimony,
which ended Tuesday, and depositions will be pre
sented by state District Judge Cecil Puryear to an ap
peals court.
Dan Hurley, an attorney for Jaxson, says his
client's right to due process was violated by perjury
from Erdmann and the withholding of a second toxi
cology report on Ms. Everett.
That report, requested by Peace Justice Melvin
Powers;, indicated that the victim had smoked mari
juana and had a blood-alcohol content nearly three
times the legal limit.
An earlier report found ho trace of alcohol or
drugs.
Erdmann said the toxicology reports were per
formed by an employee.
He acknowledged during cross-examination b) 1
Assistant Criminal District Attorney Mike Wesi,
however, that he had assumed responsibility for the
reports when he signed {hem.
Hurley also charged that Erdmann failed to testify
at Jaxson's trial because he knew the toxicology re
port had been falsified. Erdmann, however, said he
couldn't appear at the trial because of obligationsir
the military reserves.
Erdmann has been indicted on charges of falsify
ing autopsies in Dickens and Hockley counties. He
has since been accused by colleagues and police of
losing body parts and faking autopsies for prosecu
tors.
He was subpoenaed Monday for his records in the
1991 autopsy of 1-year-old Christopher Chapa,
whose death was ruled as an accidental drowning.
Erdmann has repeatedly said he never intention
ally did anything wrong.
Doctors boost medical costs
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — The number of
physician specialties has soared
in the past five years, threatening
to splinter medical care and boost
already spiraling costs, says a
report in The Journal of the
American Medical Association.
Twenty-five physician
specialties and 56 subspecialties
now have accredited U.S.
training programs, with 35 of the
subspecialties recognized in just
the past five years, the report
said.
While internal medicine,
plastic surgery and urology have
been established for decades,
new specialties include such
offshoots as aerospace medicine,
hand surgery and pediatric
urology, said the report in
Wednesday's journal. And more
are on the way, said the report by
Dr. Carlos J.M. Martini, vice
president of medical education
for the AM A, the nation's largest
organization for doctors. In
addition, 123 self-appointed
medical boards certify physicians
in areas ranging from addiction
treatment to circus medicine
without having passed the
muster of the American Board of
Medical Specialties or the
Accreditation Council on
Graduate Medical Education,
Martini said.
A spokesman for specialists
called the report "sort of a
hysterical response" to the trend.
"We can't hold medicine back.
We can't use social needs to
redirect advancements in medical
science," said Dr. J. Lee Dockery,
executive vice president of the
American Board of Medical
Specialties in suburban Evanston.
Dr. Marc L. Rivo, director of
medicine for the Bureau of
Health Professions in the
Department of Health and
Human Services, said the
proliferation of specialists and
subspecialists is a serious
problem.
"Despite a doubling of the
physician supply in the last 25
years, from 300,000 to 600,000, we
still have large parts of the
country that have no doctors," he
said from Rockville, Md.
"In many parts of the country,
including large cities, there are
not enough generalist physicians
to provide basic access to care,"
he said.
The rapid growth has
prompted the curriculum-
accrediting council to declare a
moratorium until June on new
subspecialty education programs,
Martini said.
The federal government
spends $5 billion a year on
physician training and
considering ways to increase the
number of doctors in family
practice or general internal
medicine or pediatrics, Rivo said.
Only about one-third of U.S.
physicians are generalists,
compared with two-thirds in
Britain and more than half in
Canada and Australia, Rivo said.
U.S. generalists are paid less
and work longer and more
inconvenient hours than
specialists, a fact not lost on
medical students, said Dr. Robert
H. Waldman, vice president for
medical student and resident
education at the Association of
American Medical Colleges.
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