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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
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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.
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a large portion of
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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.
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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.
The new facility will include a new
computer system and electronic wrist
bands for prisoners to provide instant
identification.
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