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Senator Nixon ordered to
begin 180-day sentence
AUSTIN (AP) — State. Sen. Drew
Nixon was ordered to the Travis
County Jail on Oct. 17 to begin serv
ing a 180-day sentence. But the law
maker says he won’t resign his seat in
the Legislature.
After being formally sentenced to
day for his guilty plea on weapons
and prostitution charges, Nixon said
he intends to remain in office until
his current term expires in 2000.
“I broke the law. I pled guilty. I will
now serve the time imposed by a jury
of my peers,” Nixon said.
“I also intend to serve out my term
as aTexas state senator. I weighed my
obligations in this case as I did with
all the other choices I made as part of
this ordeal. My decision is final.”
Nixon, R-Carthage, pleaded
guilty to the misdemeanor charges
last month. He was arrested in
February during an Austin Police
Department sting targeting men
soliciting prostitutes.
Nixon was arrested after soliciting
an undercover police officer. A pistol
was found in the car, although Nixon
had no license to carry the firearm.
Nixon’s lawyer, Herman Gotcher,
said he would ask the judge to allow
Nixon to serve his six-month sen
tence in a county jail closer to his
home in Carthage. He also said they
likely would ask that the senator be
placed in a work-release program.
Neither the misdemeanor convic
tions nor jail time automatically
forces Nixon from office.
According to legislative librarians,
no reference can be found to anoth
er lawmaker serving in jail while also
in office. Several have been charged
during their terms, but most resigned
or did not return to office before be
ing sentenced.
In a statement made after his for
mal sentencing by County Court at
Law Judge David Puryear, Nixon said
he wouldn’t seek re-election.
“As of today, I do not intend to
run for re-election,” the lawmaker
said. “The worst part of this pain is
behind me. I look forward to my
life with the resolve of one who
knows he has erred and is grateful
that family and friends are forgiv
ing and loving.”
Nixon’s decision to remain in of
fice sparked a political controversy.
A Texas Democratic Party adver
tisement urging Gov. George W. Bush
and East Texas voters to demand
Nixon’s resignation began running
today in the senator’s district.
“Nixon should do what is right
and resign before his jail term be
gins,” said Bill White, head of the
Texas Democratic Party.
The ad features a picture of Nixon
with fellow Republican Bush. An an
nouncer says Bush urged voters in
East Texas to re-elect Nixon because
the senator has held young people
accountable for their actions.
Woman pleads guilty to using
Internet to hire husband's hit man
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A
woman who used the Internet to
hire a hit man to kill her ex-hus-
band has been given 10 years’ pro
bation after pleading guilty to so
licitation of capital murder.
State District Judge Sid Harle
sentenced Andrea Lynn Vickery,
34, on Tuesday to 10 years’ de
ferred adjudication, fined her
$10,000 and ordered her to per
form 1,000 hours of community
service.
The judge also ordered that
Vickery’s parental visits to her chil
dren be supervised.
Michael Vickery, her ex-hus-
band, said they were married in
March 1989. They divorced in
1995, he said, because she was
spending up to 16 hours a day on
line on the computer.
She initially received custody of
their daughter after the divorce,
but lost custody to her husband in
August 1996.
Two months later, according to
court records, Vickery went online
looking for someone to kill her ex-
husband so she could regain cus
tody of their 6-year-old daughter.
Robert E. Lee Smith Jr., 44, a
military retiree attending the
University of Texas at Austin, told
authorities he was intrigued by a
conversation he “overheard” be
tween Vickery in a chat room on
the Internet.
Vickery said she was looking for
someone to kill her ex-husband,
Smith said.
“At first I thought the message
was humorous,” he said.
After chatting with Vickery him
self and exchanging several com
puter messages, they arranged to
meet in November of last year at a
San Antonio motel, he said. At the
time, Vickery was eight months
pregnant, he said.
She offered him $4,000, of
which $1,000 was to be paid before
the murder and the rest after the
job was done, he said.
The woman gave him a picture
of her ex-husband and a diagram
of the layout of his home in Sugar
Land, a Houston suburb, Smith
said. The woman also gave him a
credit card with her access code so
he could draw the $1,000 down
payment, he said.
He thought the whole thing was
a joke until she gave him the cred
it card, Smith said.
On his way back to Austin,
Smith said, he stopped in San Mar
cos to see if the card and access
code worked. He withdrew $200
from the credit card account.
Later, he withdrew an addition
al $800 cash advance on the card to
make a payment on his own cred
it card, Smith told police.
Smith said his wife found the
credit card and the envelope Vick
ery gave him along with the dia
gram. When his wife accused him
of having an extramarital affair,
Smith said, he told her of the mur-
der-for-hire plot.
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