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Wednesday, MarctJ Trial begins or accused icrial killer Ibum includes guest stars tier Diamond Dallas Pages ■Chieftains; the cartoon dt A|v: and Freddy Prinzei to You. Prinze is featureda song, "Highway 40." who reveals in the liners ■al name is Voldemar H, speaks random and somes ible tilings. ifBrak will enjoy thehuro. HOUSTON (AP) — A rail-riding Irifter accused of being a notorious se- ial killer asked that an insanity defense lanned for him be withdrawn, that the udge in his capital murder trial that itarted Tuesday be absent during jury election and that potential jurors in his :ase not be questioned by attorneys. The requests from Angel Maturi- oResendiz, 40, came as a 60-person lury pool assembled for the first steps in his trial on charges he killed a Hous- on-area physician, Claudia Benton, in 1 have a banana? 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She j s one 0 f f lve people Maturino pointingly, this album doesi Resendiz, a Mexican national, is sus- lected of killing in Texas, along with ame is Bingo. 1 like toclim two in Illinois and another in Kentucky in an intermittent rampage from 1997- 99. He became known as “the railroad Ciller” because ofthe proximity of train tracks to the scenes of the slayings. At a 45-minute hearing Tuesday held while potential jurors began filling out 12-page questionnaires elsewhere in the Harris County Crim inal Justice Center — State District Judge William Harmon withheld a ruling on Maturino Resendiz’s request to drop the insanity defense. Harmon, however, denied the de fendant's other requests regarding jury selection. His court-appointed lawyer, Allen Tanner, said Maturino Resendiz would prefer the first 12 people be se lected from the jury pool and did not like the idea that potential jurors must indicate they would be willing to vote forthe death penalty in his case. Such questioning, Maturino Resendiz con tended, would be unconstitutional. know you have to check records, or whatever, but you should not check their minds,” Maturino Re sendiz, standing before Harmon at the bench, said. “You may not want some kind of criminal there, but it’s against the American Constitution to question Extra effort made to include students in 2000 Census AUSTIN (AP) — In Central Texas, making certain the 2000 census counts the area’s approximately 125,000 college students is a question of some pretty big numbers. For every person not included, the com munity is projected to lose $ 150 a year, of ficials said. And the census count, which is the mea sure used to determine where federal mon ey goes, remains the gospel for a decade. In Austin alone, a student undercount — esti mated at almost 5 percent — translated into about $ 13 million in lost money in the ’90s. “Students are such a large portion of the Austin area, it’s crucial they be counted,” said Leslie Lawson, a local census spokesperson. “They drive on our roads. They go to our libraries. They go to our parks. They swim in our pools,” said city demographer Ryan Robinson. “They are very much citizens of Austin, more so than other communities. That’s one reason Austin is very much at risk of being undercounted,” he said. "Students are such a large portion of the Austin area, it's crucial they he counted." — Leslie Lawson Local census spokesperson Because federal money goes directly to the communities where the students are counted, extra efforts are being made in Austin, San Marcos and Georgetown to ensure that no one is left out. The ground rules say students who at tend colleges and universities in Central Texas should complete census forms where they attend school rather than being count ed by their parents. But census officials said confusion remains a factor in the student undercount. Further complications arise because spring break in Central Texas coincides with the census mailing, and there is concern that the forms get lost among the junk mail that piles up when students are gone for a week. And when census workers follow up from late April through the summer, most students will have gone home. The importance of an accurate count is clear to Ron Patter son, director of planning for San Marcos. His community was undercounted almost 20 percent in 1990, and he believes more than half was attributable to missed college students. Travis County inmate escapes by using fellow cellmate’s identity Tsaid, the fourth stage xvM he south end zone similar: f i zone. However, plans fo - / preliminary, otball Complex and Acad initiated yet, Groff said, to yet become available, that has been approved isa: Field for the 2001 season tlans are not far enough ti d, but he estimates a cat vill be interchangeablewt ball to where thejumboW •all to baseball during thespfi •projects will be assessed ible. mpionship Vision” has rat — $13 million ofwhiclili pledges and commitment 3 loaned to the project femi n. cently retired CEO of Shells fhe Championship Vision' ital campaign canbewifi I their minds.” Harmon, Tanner and Harris Coun ty prosecutors were speaking to the jury pool later Tuesday. AUSTIN (AP) — Travis County au thorities were still looking Tuesday for an inmate who fooled jailers into letting him go by posing as a cellmate. Jamaal Herring, 23, memorized cell mate Willie Smith’s birth date and Social security number and reported to guards when they called for Smith to be released from the county’s downtown booking fa cility Sunday. Although mug shots and finger prints are taken when an arrest is made, that information is not available to of ficers at the time of release, said Sher iff Margo Frasier. Identities are verified when jailers ask for biographical infonnation, such as telephone numbers, birth date and next of kin. Officers also compare sig natures by the prisoners at the time of arrest and release. Officers realized their mistake when they found the real Smith in his cell about an hour later “Evidently, our convicts know how the system works and he was in the hold ing cell with other experienced arrestees, "Evidently, our convicts know how the system works and he was in the holding cell with other experienced arrestees, or fre quent flyers as we call them." — Chief Deputy Dan Richards or frequent flyers as we call them,” said Chief Deputy Dan Richards. Authorities consider Herring dan gerous, Richards said. Herring was be ing held on parole violation charges from a five-year sentence for substance abuse, possession of a firearm and re taliation against officers. Authorities believed he was still in the Austin area Tuesday, Richards said. Richards said authorities are in vestigating where the breakdown oc curred but would not say if a specific procedure was ignored during Her ring’s release. The facility processes about 57,000 felony and misdemeanor arrests a year. “We do think there were a couple of things that could have been done, and should have been done,” Richards said. Frasier said the release process should be more secure when bookings are done at a new criminal justice center now under construction. 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