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AUSTIN (AP) — A state law limiting access to traf
fic crash records violates time-honored public informa
tion traditions in Texas and should remain on hold in-
I definitely, newspaper and freedom of information
j advocates said yesterday.
The Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the
Texas Press Association asked Travis County District
Judge Paul Davis to extend an injunction against the law
! passed by the Legislature in 1997. Davis granted the orig-
I inal injunction in the fall of that year.
Under the law, anyone seeking information about a
j traffic wreck must know the name of at least one person
[ involved and either the location or date of the wreck.
The law also limits public access to motor vehicle
records that contain personal information about Texans and
I would make it illegal for such information to be posted on
the Internet without permission from the person involved.
“The restrictions would severely limit the ability of
newspapers and television stations to report the news,”
Dolph Tillotson. president and publisher of The Galve
ston County Daily News, said.
“Public records in Texas are not only for the media.
They are for the public in general,” he said.
“The law was passed to protect personal information
that people might want to keep private, such as address
es and driving records,” Assistant Attorney General
Heather Horton said.
Lawmakers hoped to prevent ambulance chasing by
attorneys and other groups, such as chiropractors w ho
might use random accident information to solicit clients.
“There is a tension between the right to know and the
right to privacy. That’s what this case is about” I lorton said.
News organizations are concerned the Internet provi
sions would prohibit them from putting some stories in
their online editions.
Under the law, information legally obtained and print
ed in the newspaper could be prohibited from distribu
tion on the Internet and perhaps even by news services,
such as The Associated Press, according to lawyers for
the news groups.
News organizations also worry the law could prevent
them from making their archives available to the public.
Some archived stories would likely include information
falling under the law’s restrictions.
“If allowed to proceed, the law could force newspa
pers to censor or pull their archives from their Websites
altogether,” Tony Pederson, managing editor and a vice
president of the Houston Chronicle, said.
Any interest of privacy in accident information would
be limited and any event that happens in a public thor
oughfare in plain view should be regarded as public in
formation, the news groups said.
WASHINGTON (AP) His footsteps slowed b\
a nagging hangover, George W. Hush paid little heed
to the majestic Rockies rising nearby as he made his
daily three-mile run.
He was feeling worse than usual alter a boisterous
night of drinking with friends.
The night before. Hush, his wife and a half-
dozen close friends from Midland. Te.\a>. had en
joyed a festive dinner at the elegant Hroadmoo 1 -
resort in Colorado Springs, Colo., ordering five or
six bottles of a pricey Cabernet Sau\ ignon as the>
raised their glasses in successive toasts.
They were there that July 1986 weekend to cel
ebrate the 40th birthdays of Hush and a pal, Mid
land oilman Don Evans.
The evening, which came after 18 holes of golf
and a visit to the Air Force Academy’s chapel, was
“nothing crazy,” Evans recalled, just a group of
friends, fueled by wine, taking sentimental stock of
their lives.
Hut the aftereffects dogged Hush's footsteps
next day. “This run was dift'erent," he recalled i:
recent autobiography.
About halfway through, he made a decision:
would quit drinking.
When he told his w ife Laura, she was skeptu
“I’m not sure she believed me. at first.” said Hu
who w as know n for being the life of the party si
his days as a frat boy at Vale.
A spiritual awakening that had begun a year ear
lier “helped me quit drinking.” Bush, 53. said in a
recent interview with The Associated Press. So did
a grow ing realization that drinking could jeopardize
his relationships, his health and his career. Bush’s
Texas oil business was going through tough times as
well, w ith severely depressed oil prices bringing an
uncomfortable level of debt.
Friends have suggested that Hush’s decision to
quit drinking was driven partly by concern that he
not do anything to embarrass his father. George
Bush, the vice president who was gearing up for a
run for the White House.
The younger Hush, now in the midst of his own
campaign, offers a different explanation.
“I am a person who enjoys life, and for years. I
enjoyed having a few drinks,” the Texas governor
wrote in his hook. “Hut gradually, drinking began to
compete with my energy. I'd be a step slower get
ting up. My daily runs seemed harder after a few too
many drinks the night before.”
Bush, w ho had a fondness for bourbon and beer,
also had some awkward run-ins while drinking.
In one episode. The H'all Street Journal's then-
Washiogton bureau chief, Al Hunt, recalled being
accosted by a “clearly lubricated” Hush in a Dallas
restaurant in 1986, and sworn at for some perceived
slight against Bush's father. Hush called Hunt to
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him to quit drinking, w ith helping him. B; 01
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that I hadn’t had in my life prior to tfut"
Hush, who has been faulted bv soox/for^
ing religion into politics by stating teteaiC
was the most influential thinker in ht$!ife.ret
the criticism.
Second death row inmate executed in Texas by lethal injection thisjt
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Twenty-three
hours into his last parole violation and foot
sore from a long walk with no destination,
Spencer Corey Goodman saw in a red Cadil
lac a clean break from his past.
It was July 2, 1991, and Goodman, a
twice-convicted felon, by then was al
most a full day overdue at the Houston
halfway house where he was supposed to
report after his release from a San Anto
nio parole center.
Goodman had walked west on Interstate
10, spent a restless night by the train tracks
and walked all the next day until he came
upon Cecile Ham’s Cadillac parked at a
phannacy in west Houston.
“I was going to get out of Houston and
say, ‘I’m starting over,’ just get away from
Houston,” Goodman said recently.
“Like a dummy, I didn’t think about re
porting again.”
The choice Goodman made more
than eight years ago led him to the death
chamber, where he was scheduled to re
ceive a lethal injec
tion yesterday for
killing Ham, 48, the
w ife of ZZ top man
ager Bill Ham.
When she re
turned to her car and
stepped into the dri
ver’s seat, Goodman
slammed his fist into
her neck, knocked her
unconscious and
pushed her limp body
to the floor.
After driving a
few miles, Goodman
later told investiga-
credit cards in his wallet, Goodman took off
for a month before police captured him in
agle County. Colo
"He broke a
woman's neck
with his bare
hands because he
didn't feel like
walking ”
— Fred Felcman
Assistant district attorney
tors, he “then used martial arts and broke the
lady’s neck.”
His victim’s body in the trunk and her
on Aug. 7, 1991, and
solved w hat had until
then been “ Ham’s
disappearance.
Goodman, 31.
would he the second
Texas death row in
mate executed this
year and the 20Lst
since capital punish
ment resumed in the
state in 1982.
The execution is
also the second of
seven scheduled for
January, the busiest
c
month since May and June 1997, when eight
inmates each were killed.
Goodman’s appeal and a request to stay
the execution are pending befots
Supreme Court.
A Ft>rt Bend County jury coovij
and sentenced him to death on Jur
While testifying at his tnalfa
admitted knocking out Ham, Iff
breaking her neck or planning tok£
“I ic broke a woman’s ncckuts
hands because he didn’t feel liked
Fred Felcman. an assistant district I
who helped prosecute (nxxlmaas
"And then he stuffs her intoft
and drives away and visits Iriens
away the presents that she had hot#
day, uses her credit cards."
“People make mistakes, and
bad one. I don’t blame nobody,"Gn 2§
said recently.
Texas leads all states in execuba*
the U.S. Supreme Court effectivelys
ed the death penalty in 1976. Vira®
ond with 72.
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