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Himber 18,19; 'j lurs( j a y . September 18, 1997 S The Battalion i TATE ixon jury ecommends ail time, fine AUSTIN (AP) — State Sen. irew Nixon should serve six onths in jail and an undeter- nined probation for illegally car- ying a gun and soliciting an un- lercover police officer who posed is a prostitute, a Travis County ury recommended Wednesday. The five-woman, one-man Miry deliberated about 21/2 hours neis to a skate pad |e f ore recom mending Nixon’s iimishment. County Court at Caw though the boysfe uc jg e David Puryear will formally ill not be spinninj en tence the second-term law- turntables thism aaker on Oct. 1. RYAN LOCKER/The B. es techno tunesf® e Station raves. l!” rave Sept. 20. ce promotional ises everything n start shopping iters said theyexps biggest turnout of, ■vent this semestet "We were as fair as possible id shiny clothing: nd treated him like any other turd ay, smber 20 itizen,” juror Paige Nadel said. Nixon pleaded guilty to the wo misdemeanor charges Mon- lay, asking for the jury to recom- nend his sentence. He had faced p to one year in jail on the gun :harge and six months on the rostitution charge. The jury recommended jail e for the gun conviction and robation for the prostitution H harge. The panel also recom- lended a total of $6,000 in fines, e maximum possible. Nixon, 37, showed little reac- on to the sentence. “His mom is a wreck and his /ife is a wreck. His focus is on etting them back to where they re staying,” said Bill Miller, lixon’s spokesman. The senator did not com- jun-zydeco musicic I Floor Cantina at! an improvisationa: :k band from s playing at Cow tent. He spent several minutes aiming his sobbing wife before aving the courtroom. No decision has been made igarding Nixon’s political future, liller said. The legislative library could n Bryan-College SS: nd no reference to another law- xie Theatre at 9:3C; laker being sentenced to jail hile actively serving in the Leg- lature. Others have gotten pro- ation while in office, and sever- were sentenced to various t;rms after leaving office, librar- pop rock musician ian Nancy Hayes said, aying at Sweet Eugef at 9:30 p.m. rdson. a country r l at Chelsea Street D.m. r, a folk musician j 'sity, is playing witr I sicianfrom DentorT S Community Rac: Ale House at 9:30; I*. -J w ncouraged to visit our W ser Fair (Sept. 16-lil ir (Sept. 22). IfunobP ease forward a resume (r cs, underlining and unusn 1 to: Company i Recruiting uston, IX 77225 >6 hellus.com Web at: obs access us at: Border Patrol unveils mobile units BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — For decades, the Monsees family has shared its back yard with drug smugglers and illegal immigrants, and contended with threats, rob beries and narcotics being stashed on its ranch along the Rio Grande. Just when it seemed things couldn’t get worse, Operation Rio Grande came along and pushed even more aliens and smugglers onto the property as they sought to dodge a blockade of agents sta tioned 10 miles upriver. On Wednesday, the Border Patrol acted to address illegal immigration shifts caused by Operation Rio Grande, unveiling two mobile pro cessing buses to be sent to trouble spots such as the Monsees ranch. "What we’re simply doing is ad dressing the public’s concerns,” said Joe Garza, chief of the McAllen Border Patrol sector, which runs from Brownsville west to Roma. "We feel this area is facing a large number of illegal aliens, and we want to address the problems im mediately.” Rusty Monsees, who lives on the 30-acre ranch with his wife, chil dren and 85-year-old mother, called the processing bus “a valid idea,” but he would reserve judgment un til he sees it in action. The buses were dispatched to Brownsville from an Immigration “We feel this area is facing a large number of illegal alians, and we want to ad' dress the problems imme^ diately.” JOE GARZA CHIEF, MCCALLEN BORDER PATROL SECTOR and Naturalization Service office in Chicago. They are 33-feet long, about the size of a commercial bus, and can hold up to 30 illegal immigrants in three caged-off sections. One bus has been stationed about 200 yards from the Monsees property, near an elementary school that has reported problems with illegal immigrants cutting across the playground. Between five and 15 agents will man the bus 12 hours a day, said Brownsville Border Patrol Chief Ernesto Castillo. “What concerns us the most is the school area, where aliens are crossing over the fence and running through the schoolyard to catch buses,” Castillo said. The second processing bus is lo cated at a temporary Border Patrol checkpoint on Texas 4 between Brownsville and Boca Chica Beach. The beach, which stretches seven miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande to South Padre Island, is a known hot spot for drug smugglers and illegal immigrants. The buses allow agents to process illegal immigrants while re maining in the field, Castillo said. Normally, agents have to bring the immigrants to the Brownsville sta tion for processing before they can return to the field. Now, agents are able to process aliens on the buses using laptop com puters and immediately return them to Mexico or an INS detention center. Operation Rio Grande began Aug. 25 with more agents being dis patched to downtown Brownsville and a 2 1/2-mile section of river di rectly south of downtown. MSC ABBOTT FAMILY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE FRANK & JOANNIE ABBOTT, THE 1987-88 AGGIE PARENTS OF THE YEAR, JOIN US IN WELCOMING YOU TO THE ABBOTT FAMILY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE. THIS CONFERENCE IS BASED ON FOUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES: ^ ETHICS ^ LEADERSHIP ^VALUES ^ INCLUSION ☆ APPLICATIONS OLE SEPTEMBER 19, 1997 FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: THE STUDENT PROGRAMS OFFICE AT 845-1515 ☆ Court OKs new trial for Jack Davis AUSTIN (AP) — In a case turning on constitutional limits on repeated prosecution for the same offense, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a new trial in a capital murder case from New Braunfels. Jack Warren Davis, who has maintained his inno cence, originally was sentenced to life in prison in the November 1989 strangulation death of New Braunfels schoolteacher Kathie Balonis. The indictment said her murder occurred during an aggravated sexual assault or burglary with intent to commit such an assault. The 3rd Court of Appeals reversed Davis’ conviction in 1992, saying actions by the then-district attorney de nied Davis a fair trial. It sent the case back for a new trial. But Davis argued that he should not have to under go a second trial, citing constitutional guarantees against double jeopardy. The guarantees protect criminal defendants against a second prosecution for the same offense after an ac quittal or conviction, and after a mistrial due to prose cutorial misconduct. During his original trial — after learning about con tact between the district attorney and a witness who then changed her testimony — Davis asked for a mis trial on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. He said the district attorney intimidated the witness. The judge ruled there was no misconduct that would justify a mistrial. The 3rd Court of Appeals, in finding Davis was denied a fair trial, said the judge was wrong to deny that motion for a mistrial. But it denied Davis’ subsequent argument that double jeopardy protections denied his retrial. The Court of Criminal Appeals decided 7-2 to up hold the 3rd Court’s decision. "Fundamentally, this is a due process case. It has long been the law that where a defendant’s due process rights have been violated to the extent that he has been denied a fair trial, the proper remedy is reversal of his conviction and (return) ... to the trial court for further proceedings,” Judge Stephen Mansfield wrote in the majority opinion. Dissenting, Judge Charles Baird said he believes the state constitutional protection bars retrial. “The trial judge, through an erroneous ruling, should not be allowed to forfeit an individual’s valuable constitutional right,” Baird wrote. Justice Morris Over- street also dissented. Q What do these have in common? MSC L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness Interns flip and Living JAbroad ‘Programs Spend 5 weeks of your summer living abroad in: w England Germany The Dominican Republic • Experience a new culture • Intern in a field related to your major • Become a part of a host family Interested? 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