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Tuesday • November 12,
Practice Makes Perfect
Pat James, The Battalion
Robert Zipp, a junior management major and a member of the Meatball Platoon of the
Ross Volunteers, practices in front of the O&M Building Monday.
State
Grandfather held in
prison for extra time
FORT WORTH (AP) — A grandfa
ther accused of sexual abuse by his
grandson spent an extra two months
in jail because Child Protective Ser
vices workers did not promptly inform
prosecutors that the child had re
canted his story, officials say.
It eventually took a letter from
Louis D. Martin, 58, to the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram to secure the
man’s release from the Tarrant
County Jail. The newspaper forward
ed the letter to prosecutors han
dling the case.
Martin was released four months
after he was jailed and two months
after nis grandson told case work
ers that he had made up the story
of abuse because he “was unhappy
with his grandfather.”
CPS officials say they will re-exam
ine their procedures because of what
they said was an unintentional error.
Both CPS workers and prosecu
tors say the Martin case is an ex
ample of the problems of prose
cuting accusations of assault
against children, who often recant
or change their stories as investi
gations continue.
Martin was arrested in May and
jailed on three counts of aggravated
sexual assault based on the word of
his 12-year-old grandson.
Juveniles esca
from state sch
GIDDINGS (AP) — Two
convicted of attempted muro
another convicted of
sexual assault escaped fra
dings State School Monday
saulting a youth activity supi
officials said.
Linda Ward of the Lee(
Sheriff’s Department said ft
fled the maximum-securityj.
detention facility 50 milese
Austin about 1:30 a.m. Mono
The youths grabbed the
visor, took his keys and*:
him into a closet that the)
with one of the keys.
The youths used the sam^
keys to unlock the dormite
crawled under a nearby fence
cape, said Tom Tye, director]
nile corrections and halfway
for the Texas Youth Commii
Ward identified two of the
as Leocadio Martinez, 17,ol|
County, sentenced to a mar.
40 years for attempted muft
Densy Jimenez, 18, of Hot;
sentenced to a minimumil
years for attempted murder.
She would not give the n*
the third youth, a 16-year-ol:
Nueces County, who she $a:
serving a maximum 30-yee
tence for aggravated sexual ass
Giddings State School is .
the Texas Youth Commission.
► This day in history
► Weather
(AP) — Today is Tuesday, Nov. 12, the 317th day
of 1996. There are 49 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1920, baseball got its first "czar” as Judge
Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected commission-
.er of the American and National Leagues.
In 1921, representatives of nine nations gath
ered for the start of the Washington Conference
for Limitation of Armaments.
In 1927, Joseph Stalin became the undisputed
ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was ex
pelled from the Communist Party.
In 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadal
canal began. (The Americans ended up winning a
major victory over the Japanese.)
In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo
and several other World War II Japanese leaders
were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.
In 1954, Ellis Island closed after processing
more than 20 million immigrants since opening in
New York Harbor in 1892.
In 1980, the U.S. space probe Voyager 1 came
within 77,000 miles of Saturn.
In 1982, Yuri V. Andropov was elected to suc
ceed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secre
tary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central
Committee.
► Today's birthdays
Today
Actress Kim Hunter is 74. Actor-playwright Wal
lace Shawn is 53. Singer Brian Hyland is 53.
Singer-songwriter Neil Young is 51. Olympic gold
medal gymnast Nadia Comaneci is 35. Actor David
Schwimmer is 30. Figure skater Tonya Harding is
26. Singer Tevin Campbell is 20.
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cloudiness.
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