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State & Local Page 2 The Battalion Tuesday, February 8, Kidnapping suspect has map leading to missing infant fpmntprl iiqp> it ac a harcrainincr rhin ini Fuesc Over the top ' ' t ^ ll; - m -% <£ w '" David Bircli/Tlw Battalion Cadets scale the arches in front of the "pull out" yell practice at midnight on Sun- Quadrangle on their way to a sophomore day. The Associated Press AUSTIN — Travis County Sheriff Terry Keel says kidnapping suspect Cathy Lynn Henderson has drawn a map purportedly showing the location of the missing infant she's accused of taking, according to a published report. Authorities want the map, which Keel said was giv en to Henderson's lawyer Nona Byington last week, the Austin American-Statesman reported Monday in a copyright story. Keel said the map was drawn in a Kansas City, Mo., jail, where Henderson was held after her arrest on a kidnapping charge. She since has been returned to Texas. Meanwhile, law officers continued to search for 3- month-old Brandon Baugh. Henderson has not given authorities any information about the infant's where abouts. During a five-hour search Sunday, more than 60 law enforcement officers fanned out along 80 miles of Interstate 35 from Belton to the McLennan-Hill county line. Aided by two search dogs and two helicopters, they concentrated on areas likely to contain a burial site. The map could put an end to such unsuccessful searches. Keel said. Henderson's public defender, Ron Hall, faxed a copy of the map to Byington last week and sent the original to her by overnight mail. Keel said. Sheriff's investigators had warrants to search By- ington's office and car Friday for the maps. But they were not found. "Byington secreted that evidence, and she has at tempted to use it as a bargaining chiptoreti: hostage," Keel told the American-Statesman wanted to negotiate terms of a plea bargain foil cation of a kidnap victim." On Monday, about a dozen people who! helped in the search for the baby gathered in ftc Byington's office, carrying signs saying,'?! Where is Brandon?" and "Bring Brandon Home Byington and her attorney, Steve Brittain, ha fused to discuss the allegations Keel charges that the map is not subject to al client privilege because protections on confident do not include information pertaining toanonj crime. On Friday, Byington gave investigators a swe fidavit saying the attorney-client privilege was because there was no ongoing crime. The affidav: interpreted as an indication that Brandon is dea: American-Statesman reported. Keel also said that the faxed and mailed cop; the map would not fall under attorney-client pir. because the communication was made betwees attorneys, not an attorney and client. But Linda Icenhauer-Ramirez, whowasappc: to represent Henderson on state kidnapping ciu disagrees "I can't verify that there's a map," she said."b was such a map, anything that is conveyed byaj to an attorney, and then is shared by another ate also working on the case, is subject to attorneys 1 privilege. "From everything I know, the attomey-cliente lege exists, and Nona Byington is doing (lies thing," Icenhauer-Ramirez said. Inmate's family establishes prisoner scholarship fund The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — A mother whose tough love sent her son to prison hopes that her family's $10,000 contribution to set up a college scholarship fund for Texas prison inmates will help him and others get their lives together. Carolyn and Jim Smiser established the fund last month with an inheritance left by Mr. Smiser's father. "They are going to come out of prison sometime," Mrs. Smiser said. "Do we want them coming out with an eighth-grade education, so they can just go back to what they were doing before, or do we want them ed ucated and productive?" Bob Evans, director of continuing education for the state's school system, says that most inmates pay for their prison-based college education with federal Pell grants and state aid. But a provision in the crime bill passed by the U.S. Senate could make prisoners ineligible for Pell grants. Critics say that inmates are competing for money with low -and moderate-income students. Mrs. Smiser said she was unaware of the threat to inmate education when she and her husband set up the scholarship. "It takes more than carrying a sandwich board around saying, T don't want this person in my neigh borhood,"' she said. "We have to be willing to do something." In an attempt to help their son, the Smisers had moved from their home in Provo, Utah, to the family ranch in Boerne. In 1988, Jason was placed on probation after a rampage at the Smisers' home. High on cocaine and alcohol, he met Kendall County Sheriff's Department deputies brandishing a shotgun. Jason was charged with aggravated assault on a peace officer and placed on probation. Mrs. Smiser filed a theft report in 1992 after ; pawned a deer rifle, a chain saw and a weed cute taken from their home. Jason was found guilty of first-degree buii; and sentenced to seven years in prison, plus an;i tional seven years for the earlier aggravated ass;: for which he still was on probation. He earned his General Equivalency Diploma hind bars and wants to go to college to becoii: drug counselor. Research shows that inmates who obtain educations are much less likely to commit cri upon release, Evans said. WHO WILL WIN? 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