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Page 10 • Tuesday, October 6, 1998 N ation The Ban leBatt Teen pleads guilty in school shootings PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A timid-looking teen-ager who opened fire on a high-school prayer circle, killing three fellow students, pleaded guilty but mentally ill Monday and will have to spend at least 25 years in prison. With his arms folded, Michael Adam Carneal, a slightly built youngster with glasses whose fair complexion and rosy cheeks made him look younger than his 15 years, acknowledged carrying out the attack last Dec. 11 at Heath High School in West Paducah. Five other people were wounded in the rampage, one of a series of school shootings that rocked the nation during the last school year. Defense attorney Chuck Granner said that Carneal be lieved that his classmates ridiculed him and that the shoot ings would bring him acceptance. “Michael understands that his feelings, attitudes and beliefs at the time of the shootings were, in fact, wrong,” the lawyer said. “He deeply regrets the overwhelming pain, the injuries and the loss of life that his acts have caused.” Judge Jeff Hines accepted the plea on condition that Carneal get the maximum penalty — life in prison without possibility of parole for 25 years — at sen tencing Dec. 16. The victims’ families had originally opposed the plea because Carneal could have been eligible for parole in at little as 12 years. “He’s definitely going to serve 25 years,” prosecutor Tim Kaltenbach said. “While today’s events will not undo the horri ble tragedy that affected and will continue to affect so many lives, we hope that in some measure it will begin to ease the pain.” Carneal will be held in a juve nile detention center until his 18th birthday, when he will be transferred to an adult prison. His mental health will be evaluated, and he could receive treatment. His attorney characterized Carneal as paranoid, with a schizophrenia-like personality disorder, and said that with treat ment, “we might have a chance of salvaging a young man.” A verdict of guilty to murder without the finding of mental ill ness carries a term of life with parole possible after 25 years. In Kentucky, a defendant must be at least 16 when the crime is committed to get the death penalty. Carneal was 14 at the time of the attack. Granner read a statement on behalf of the boy’s parents, John and Ann Carneal, that said the family was “determined to do the right thing” for everyone. CfoCden ‘JKfivy National Honor Society i 4 Lj General Meeting Tuesday, October 6th 8:30 p.m. MSC 292B OF ^002 Election Run-Offs Tues. Oct. 6 Wed. Oct. 7 9am - 5pm Your Vote...Your Voice 1M i M Luminous Code: Photo-based Artwork Walking Tour/Lecture — Susan Dunkerley Associate Professor, Art Dept., Baylor University Tuesday, October 6 3 p.m. J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries For Information: 845-8501 - Committee debates further investigation^ Possibility of more impeachable offenses fuels Republican demand for open-endedm] WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee clashed in historic debate Monday over a Re publican demand for an open-end ed impeachment inquiry of Presi dent Clinton. The top GOP lawyer cited what he called “substantial and credible evidence” of 15 possi ble grounds for impeachment. “Do we have a duty to look fur ther, or to look away?” Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., asked shortly after gaveling the committee to order in the same cavernous room where Richard Nixon’s fate was debated a quarter-century ago. “This is not about Watergate,” Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the panel’s senior Democrat, retorted. “It is an extramarital affair.” Confident of prevailing, majori ty Republicans pressed for a com mittee vote by day’s end on their proposal for an investigation based on Watergate rules and unlimited in time or scope. A vote in the full House would follow by Friday. The Republi cans’ lead inves tigator, David Schippers, broad ened the counts set out by Inde pendent Counsel Kenneth Starr to raise the possibili ty that Clinton took part in a broad conspiracy to cover up his actions. Democrats countered the Re publicans’ proposed resolution with a plan to show their support STARR for an inquiry limited to matters arising from the president’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, and for rendering a verdict by Nov. 25. Clinton himself did not mention the proceedings unfolding 16 blocks away when he appeared briefly before reporters on the White House grounds. Clinton spokesperson Joe Lock hart said, “We don’t believe there’s anything here that reaches the lev el of an impeachable offense." Inside the committee room, Schippers, the lifelong Democrat hired by Hyde to oversee the case for Republicans, methodically re viewed evidence submitted three weeks ago by Starr. Dropping some of Starr’s counts, adding others, and recast ing still others, hecameup counts, four more than Stair He said, for example,tliii! was evidence that C have been part of a con$pi® Monica Lewi nsky and ottesi struct justice and dueadm tion of justice.” Starrdidesi the specter of a conspiran multiple players. Lewina ceived immunity from Stan change for her testimony. Schippers also said the dent may have committed er offense by taking stepsi ceal Lewinsky’s falseaffi; the Paula Jones sexual! ment suit and by allowing torney to use that affidavit ton’s own Jones deposiii deny a sexual relationship. m thro i Court action may spur further high-school drugtei exis prid drtradi lEvents ster, o vide A Hive ou not al ;ible. pons ar ryday, dail [When jeCoc yean c ipancie: be [The rh< he Uni WASHINGTON (AP) — Public schools nationwide may be encour aged to require more students to take drug tests after the Supreme Court allowed an Indiana district to continue such tests. Rejecting an appeal by teen-agers and their parents on Monday, the court let a rural school district con duct random drug tests for all stu dents in extracurricular activities — from sports teams to the library club — even if they are not individually suspected of using drugs. The justices left intact a federal appeals court ruling that said such testing does not violate students’ pri vacy rights. Outside the stately courthouse, more than 1,000 members of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People nois ily demonstrated Monday to protest the court’s lack of minority law clerks. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and 18 other people were arrested for trying to demon strate on court property rather than on the public sidewalk. The court’s action in the drug testing case is not a decision and therefore sets no national precedent. 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