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oddler’s death
ffles police
HURST (AP) — Police waited
y^j.-Thtirsday forthe results of an au
topsy on a two-year-old Hurst girl
who died after having seizures at
■aye a re center.
■Megan Godley died at Cook
■Idren's Medical Center in Fort
Worth on Wednesday, a day after
the seizures.
Ne are waiting for information
.toi>ee what direction to go, and to
_ t hints to what we should be
looking for," Hurst police It. Steve
My* s said Thursday.
■Authorities said the girl had
alskull fracture. Doctors at
Cook also found bruises that
th|y believe were from previous
injuries.
■Myers said the autopsy was
^expected to be performed Thurs-
T" day by the Tarrant County Medical
Examiner’s office. The release of
// .the preliminary results could take
> another day.
Investigators have already
ed with family members and
fan ily friends, which Myers said is
a normal step in such situations.
■"Nothing has been ruled out
^Kl there's nothing I've seen that
points specifically at any one
thirg,” Myers said. “There is cer-
^tair ly no indication that it’s a day
care situation.”
odley was taken to the hos-
B
,
pitti! after workers at the Fun 4
Kids Child Development Center
in Hurst called authorities Tues-
. day to report that she was having
* a seizure.
Different tactic
against hate
! >r BEAUMONT (AP) — Groups
who monitor white supremacy or
ganizations agree that communi
ties should band together to gird
against Ku Klux Klan rallies. Ex
actly how to accomplish that goal
is where they differ.
The Anti-Racist Action Net
work, largely composed of
young people, takes the in-your-
face approach. Jerry Bellow, 27,
and cohorts in the Columbus.
Ohio-based chapter protests
fyevery Klan rally and march they
can attend.
■The chapter, one of 140 na
tionwide, shouts insults at Klan
members and police, whom
rthey accuse of protecting the
KKK. Their members often are
arrested, but Bellow says it’s
Vwoith it.
^JgJ^j'My advice is to be really di-
>SWORD , rect, confront them, talk to neigh-
^bors, don’t hide in your church
and pray,” Bellow said in a story
by The Beaumont Enterprise. “Go
'^down to the rallies and pray
mere. Get in their faces.”
ig Ted Almay, superintendent of
the Ohio Bureau of Criminal
Identification and Investigation
division of the attorney gener-
■ al ’s office, favors less con-
frontational displays.
■“So we’ve done things to orga-
nize various community functions,”
Almay said. “In one city we had a
^ park cleanup day. We’ve had com-
munity pride functions sponsored
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Seventh execution
effected this year
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — James Wal
ter Moreland, condemned for a knife at
tack that left two East Texas men dead
more than 17 years ago, was executed
Thursday evening.
Strapped to the gurney, Moreland’s
first words were “Jesus, God, Lord.”
Then he gave a lengthy final state
ment in which he told his lather and
brother, watching through a window
nearby, that he loved them.
“You’ve been the best. All of you
have truly been the best,” he said. “I be
lieve I'm going home.”
Moreland then turned to his victims’
relatives and apologized.
“I really mean that. It’s not just words.
My life is all 1 can give. 1 stole two lives
and I know it was precious to y’all,” he
said, and they nodded in acknowledgment
as he spoke.
“That's what al
cohol will do
for you.”
He sang the
words “take me
home Lord,” as
the lethal drugs
were adminis
tered through
his veins. He
took two deep
breaths, then
exhaled four times before falling into un
consciousness.
Moreland was pronounced dead at
6:21 p.m., eight minutes after the flow of
lethal drugs began.
The 39-year-old Indiana native never
denied killing Clinton Corbet Abbott and
John Royce Cravey. The two triends were
stabbed repeatedly in the back, robbed and
left to die in a Eustace trailer home after a
day of beer drinking on Oct. 9, 1982.
Instead, Moreland maintained he act
ed out of fear after Cravey, a 41 -year-old
iron worker, allegedly made homosexu
al advances toward him.
The claim is similar to the “gay panic”
defense used last year in the trial of one of
the men accused of fatally beating
Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming college
student. A judge disallowed the strategy.
Relatives of Moreland’s victims ran
kle at the suggestion.
“My brother was by no means a ho
mosexual. 1 know this for a fact,” said
Robert Cravey. “Neither was Clint. I le'd
have fought you if you even mentioned
it to him.”
Jurors also rejected the idea, con
victing Moreland of capital murder for
Abbott’s death on June 15, 1983. He
was indicted but never tried for
Cravey’s killing.
“There's no doubt in my mind that
what I did was wrong,” Moreland told
the Athens Daily Review in a recent death
row interview. “But some of the things
they did at that trial were wrong, too. If
you're going to
convict a man,
especially if
you’re going to
take his life. I’d
think you’d
have to do it
fairly.”
Moreland
said his trial at
torneys, Hank
Skelton and the
late Bill Bandy,
mishandled his case, a claim attorney
James T. Maloney supports.
“There were a number of errors in
Mr. Moreland's trial dealing with the
nature of the indictment... the jury se
lection process and the sufficiency of
evidence that were not properly pre
served,” Maloney said.
Skelton, who practices in Athens, de
clined to discuss the trial.
Meanwhile, the victims’ relatives re
mained steadfast in their determination
to see Moreland receive a lethal injection
Thursday. It was Texas' third execution
this week and the seventh in January, the
most in January since eight men were
killed in June 1997.
"There were a number
of errors in Mr. More
land's trial dealing
with the nature of the
indictment..."
— james T. Maloney
Claim attorney
DPS trooper fails
to appear for hearing
AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas Depart
ment of Public Safety (DPS) trooper,
who revealed photographs of troopers
dressed in Ku Klux Klan costumes after
he was suspended without pay, failed to
appear for a hearing he requested with
the DPS director.
Darron Anderson, 35, scheduled an
appeal hearing Wednesday morning
with DPS director Col. Dudley
Thomas, but never showed up and has
n't contacted the department,
spokesperson Tom Vinger said.
Anderson’s lawyer, state Rep. Ron
Wilson, D-Houston, did not return a call
from The Associated Press for comment
Wednesday.
Dudley suspended Anderson without
pay in November and recommended his
dismissal after Anderson was indicted
for arson. The trooper is accused of set
ting fire to his pickup truck in San Jacin
to County, then filing an insurance claim.
After his suspension, Anderson, who
is black, revealed photographs taken at a
surprise party in his honor in 1989. The
snapshots — taken in the Livingston of
fice of the DPS — show eight troopers
clad in KKK hoods clustered around a
grinning Anderson.
Troopers have said the party theme
was a harmless, albeit tasteless, joke.
Anderson claims he disguised his dis
may during the office party, then went
home to cry.
Six of the other troopers in the pho
tographs have been suspended. The oth
er two have retired.
Anderson has said he believes he was
fired, but Vinger said the trooper simply
has been suspended without pay.
If Dudley sends Anderson an official
discharge letter, Anderson has 15 days to
appeal.
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