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The Battalion
Tuesday, January 26,1993 3
Officials increase court security
People entering county building
must go through metal detectors
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — Employees at the
George Allen Sr. Courts Building
went back to work Monday feel
ing safer but wondering why two
people had to die before county
officials were willing to pay for in
creased security.
Courts resumed their dockets
Monday for the first time since
Hai Van Huynh entered the
downtown building last Tuesday
and fatally shot his wife, Ly Thi
Dang, wounded a 16-year-old by
stander and then killed himself.
The woman was seeking a
cq^irt protective order and had
threatened to divorce her hus
band.
People entering the Allen
Courts Building now must pass
through airport-like security,
which includes metal detectors at
the main and basement entrances
and an X-ray machine to screen
personal belongings. Security
guards also utilize hand-held met
al detectors.
A third entrance at the court,
which handles the often-con-
tentious family and juvenile cases,
is being blocked and fitted with
an electronic exit-door device that
keeps the doors locked unless a
fire alarm is sounded.
"Better late than never," said
Deputy Sheriff Leonard Carpen
ter, who was overseeing one of
the entrances. "I think it's a relief
for most people."
"Tm happy they've taken some
steps," said Judge Sue Lykes,
whose family court is in the same
hallway where the shooting oc
curred. "I'm just sorry that it took
something like this."
Within 12 hours of the incident,
Dallas County Commissioners
called an emergency meeting and
voted to spend $200,000 on a 90-
day improved security pilot pro
gram.
"I don't think it would've hap
pened that quickly" without the
shooting, said Art Garcia, head of
security for the county. "It helped
us that we already had a plan in
motion."
The plan was the result of a
campaign by Gen. Dick Carey, the
county's district court administra
tor, who began seeking additional
security soon after taking the job
about two years ago, Garcia said.
Carey's idea gained momen
tum last July, when a gunman
killed two people and wounded
three others in the Tarrant County
Courthouse in Fort Worth.
Two weeks later, the U.S. Mar
shals Service began a survey of
three Dallas County buildings at
Carey's request.
Their 17-page report made sev
eral recommendations that would
"require little or no expenditure
of funds."
In its conclusion, the report
warned that most court security
increases have come after an inci
dent, rather than being proactive
and trying to prevent them.
The report boiled down its
findings to five "starting points,"
all of which are now being imple
mented.
At the Frank Crowley Courts
Building, the county has two
walk-through machines and two
X-ray devices on the main floor
and one of each on a lower level,
Garcia said.
Garcia said 10 private security
guards were hired to run the ma
chines and one bailiff joins them
at each location.
He said they haven't decided
whether to keep the guards on a
contract basis or to increase their
staff.
"Crime is only going to get
worse," said building electrician
Jerry Hodo, who was installing
the exit-door device.
"For what I see coming. I'd
give up my raise for this," Hodo
said.
Woman assists husband in kidnapping, sentenced to 20 years
Judge rejects syndrome for defense plea
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — The woman who
told authorities how her husband mastermind
ed the fatal abduction of Exxon executive Sid
ney Reso was sentenced Monday to 20 years in
prison for helping in the kidnapping.
Irene J. Seale, 45, was sentenced to concur
rent 20-year prison terms on state and federal
charges. She was fined $500,000 in federal
court and $100,000 in state court.
U.S. District Judge Garrett E. Brown reject
ed defense assertions that Seale suffered from
battered women's syndrome, saying she was a
"full participant" with her husband, Arthur.
Reso, 57, president of Exxon Co. Interna
tional, was shot in the arm during the April 29
kidnapping outside his Morris Township
home. He was then kept handcuffed, bound
and gagged in a box in a storage vault. He
died May 3, and the Seales buried him in a
shallow grave in Bass River State Park.
The Seales were arrested weeks later and
Seale led authorities to Reso's body.
In federal court in Trenton, Seale, in a thin,
quavering voice, read a letter she had sent to
U.S. District Judge Garrett E. Brown in which
she described her role.
"At the time of my arrest, I was physically,
mentally and emotionally exhausted. I had to
tell my story," she said. "I had to give the Reso
family closure."
She had could have been sentenced to 40
years in prison after pleading guilty to federal
extortion and conspiracy charges. Prosecutors
agreed to the 20-year sentence.
Seale pleaded guilty in state Superior Court
in Morristown to kidnapping charges, which
carried a maximum 30-year prison sentence.
Crying and barely audible, Seale told state
Judge Reginald Stanton that she could never
fully explain how sorry she is.
"I have to live with that," Seale said.
Although the federal sentence does not al
low for early parole, Seale could pare a year
and a few months off her prison time for good
behavior, said U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff.
He added that the sentence was justified in
light of the crime and Seale's cooperation.
"The judge balanced Irene Seale's very sub
stantial cooperation, not only in the conviction
of her husband but in finding Reso's grave,
with her participation in one of the most
heinous crimes in the history of the state,"
Chertoff said.
Seale's attorney, Sallyanne Floria, argued
before the judge that her client deserved a fur
ther reduction in sentence because of the emo
tional and physical abuse she suffered at her
husband's hands.
Floria noted that a presentencing report,
compiled by the U.S. attorney's office in
Newark, contained two psychological evalua
tions, one of which described Seale as suffer
ing from "battered woman syndrome."
Her husband was sentenced to 95 years in
prison Nov. 30 after pleading guilty to federal
charges of extortion, weapons possession, con-
Highway shooting
kills Dallas youth r al
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO - A North
Texas teen-ager found dead after
his car careened through con
struction barricades on an ex
pressway had been shot in the
head, police say.
Brian Michael Guynes, 19, of
the Dallas suburb of Farmers
Branch, was visiting San Antonio
to help judge a high school debate
contest when he was killed late
Saturday.
At first he was thought to have
died as a result of the traffic acci
dent, but police said Sunday they
had discovered a gunshot wound
in the left side of his head.
Officers said they have not
been able to determine if Guynes
was shot by someone in a passing
car or if he ran into some other
foul play, such as an attempted
carjacking.
Homicide Sgt. Orlando Navar
ro said the case is being classified
as a murder. No weapon was
found.
"We are looking into the possi
bility of robbery as a motive be
cause there was no money in his
wallet," a detective said. "He was
just a former student trying to
help out the teacher and the stu
dents."
Guynes accompanied eight
participants of R.L. Turner High
School's debate team from Car
rollton to San Antonio for a de
bate competition at Churchill
High School.
The teams' debate coach, Gina
Wilkinson, said Guynes was a
1992 graduate of the Carrollton
school and had been invited to
serve as a judge in the debate,
which was sponsored by the
Texas Forensic Association.
Debate squad members said
Guynes worked at a Sears, Roe
buck and Co. store and at an
aerospace parts distributor and
was saving money for college.
Team members said he was at
tending Brookhaven Community
College in Farmers Branch and
hoping to save enough money to
enroll at the University of Texas
at Austin and eventually earn a
law degree.
Home-school parents
fight education laws
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — State education officials are scheduled to square off at
the Texas Supreme Court Tuesday with parents who teach their chil
dren at home.
Their dispute dates back to the 1980s, when the state tried to pros
ecute some home-school parents for violating Texas' compulsory
school attendance law.
Home schoolers, and companies that provide their instruction ma
terials, won a lawsuit fighting such prosecution. The state has ap
pealed.
"I don’t think the state should regulate home schooling," Erma
Toussaint, whose daughter is taught at home, told the Austin Ameri-
can-Statesman. "I believe parents know their children's educational
needs better than the state."
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