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Applications can be picked-up at the front desk of University Tower in the lobby and are due Monday, April 3 rd by 5:00 p.m. UNIVERSITY TOWER FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 846-4242 STATE Page 8 THE BATTALION Thursday, March 30, Accused killer makes requests before trial Take a deep breath 'hursday, Marc HOUSTON (AP) — A rail-riding driller accused of being a notorious serial killer asked Tuesday that his insanity defense be withdrawn, that he not be forced to sit in the courtroom during jury selection and that attorneys in his capital murder trial be banned from questioning potential jurors. Angel Maturino Resendiz, 40, made his requests as a 60-per son jury pool assembled for the first steps in his trial. He’s ac cused of killing a Houston-area physician, Claudia Benton, 39, at her home in December '98. She is one of five people whom Maturino Resendiz, a Mexi can national, is suspected of killing in Texas, plus two in Illinois and one in Kentucky in an intermittent rampage from 1997-99. He became known to authorities as “the railroad killer” because of the proximity of train tracks to the scenes of the slayings. At a 45-minute hearing held while potential jurors filled out 12-page questionnaires elsewhere in the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, a judge withheld a ruling on Maturino Resendiz’s request to drop the insanity defense. However, state District Judge William Hannon denied the de fendant's other requests regarding jurj' selection. His court-appointed lawyer, Allen Tanner, said Maturino Re sendiz would prefer the first 12 people be selected from the jury pool. His client does not like the idea that potential jurors must in dicate they would be w illing to vote for the death penalty in his case. Maturino Resendiz said he feels such questioning would be unconstitutional. “I know you have to check records, or whatever, but you should not check their minds,” said Maturino Resendiz, standing before Harmon at the bench. “You may not want some kind of criminal there, but it’s against the American Constitution to ques tion their minds.” At the end of the day, a 28-year-old science teacher became the first juror chosen. During an individual interview with the lawyers, the woman said she had only vague knowledge of the Benton slaying. Jurors were asked if they were influenced significantly by me dia coverage of the case, whether they objected to the death penal ty and how they felt about insanity pleas. Lawyers said it might take up to five weeks to whittle as many as four different 60-member pools to 12 jurors and two alternates. Prosecutors have said they plan to present fingerprint and DNA evidence linking Maturino Resendiz to the sexual assault, stabbing and bludgeoning of Benton in her West University Place home. Some of the victim’s jewelry was found at the suspect's home in Mexico, police said. Tanner has said he would use an insanity defense. However, Maturino Resendiz has ignored the judge’s order to speak to a court psychologist. Harmon has threatened to limit the testimony of the defense’s mental health expert if Maturino Resendiz does not cooperate. In a handwritten letter presented Tuesday to the judge, Ma turino Resendiz said he never wanted to use the insanity defense. Testimony is scheduled to begin May 2. Even if he is con victed and sentenced to lethal injection in Texas, prosecutors in Kentucky and Illinois have vowed to try him in their jurisdictions. Maturino Resendiz is charged with killing college student Christopher Maier in Lexington, Ky., near a railroad track in 1997. Illinois authorities say they believe Maturino Resendiz killed George Morber, 79, and his daughter, Carolyn Frederick, 51, in Gorham, III. The Illinois victims and two of the Texas victims were killed after Maturino Resendiz was taken into custody last June at Sun- land Park, N.M., near El Paso — at a time he was wanted by the FBI — and then was released into Mexico. EUZABETHH 0’FARREU. Iin Baih: ■ Cristen Stinemen, a graduate student in the College of Veterinary Medi cine, takes the vital signs of a 2-week-old foal at the Large Animal ICU unit. MIAMI C cial meeting 1 cialsand Elia mayor said V not offer any 1 moving the cl Miami-Di Penelas said nearby towns eral Janet Ren rectly respon: might occur i voked permis this country. The I mini Sen ice has ii relatives agre< day to hand their court c; said it would i traumatize tb “We will sources, whet police officer assist the fe< way, shape o repatriate Eli: Penelas, who “If their cc fomi of unjus boy’s parole, I Protective Services starts chik abuse prevention program AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services launched a statewide outreach campaign Wednesday that warns parents about the dangers of child abuse and neglect. The “It's Up to You” campaign features a Website, television and radio public serv ice an nouncements and print ads in English and Span ish. It’s the first of three planned campaigns set to run annually for the next three years. The effort comes on the heels of a state report released this week that shows a 20 percent de cline in the number of child deaths from abuse and neglect in 1999. There were 143 child deaths reported in Texas last year, down from the 176 reported in the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31, 1998. The decline can he credited in part to ex panded outreach efforts from the Texas Depart ment of Protective and Regulatory Services and more support from the Legislature that last year gave the department a $200 million increase to hire more caseworkers over the next two years, officials said. “The Legislature really stepped up to the plate on this one. I'm not sure they've gotten the credit they’ve deserved,” said Thomas Chap- mond, director of prevention and early interven tion at the department. Meanwhile, the number of children being re moved from their households and placed in state custody has increased from 6,917 in 8,650 in 1999. The state spent $200 million Is \ car on foster care, said Chapmond “But the financial costs pale in comparisa to the cost of the human potential and suffering, he said. “Abuse and neglect causes the highestrisl. for criminal behavior. Abused and negtal children are 53 percent more likely to become invoh ed as juvenile delinquents and 38petrat more likely to be at-risk as an adult,” he said. The new campaign, paid for with 5100,000 in federal funds earmarked for child abuse pre vention and an $81.()()() grant from the I oundation in Dallas, couldhelpJowerthedeatli numbers even more, said Marla Slieely, spokeswoman for the department. The ads and W eb site offer parents solution to common parenting problems such as how t deal w ith cranky children on a shopping trip, sail Marla Sheely, a spokeswoman tor the depan ment. A toll free hotline, 1-800-252-5400, i$is available. “In the majority of the most tragic case: those in which the child died, we never chance to impact the safety ofthat child at risk Sheely said. “Maybe it was a situation that people outsid ofthat child’s family couldn't see. Maybe th child’s parent didn't realize that their actiono lack of action put that child’s life at risk. We nea parents to know that it’s up to you to child abuse,” she said. ■ i ■ ITALY FALL 2000 YOU IN COLLEGE STATION OR WITH THE SAME OL’ ROUTINE * YOU IN ITALY WITH A WORLD OF EXPERIENCE YOU DECIDE.. QRAWiffl FAlfiUHGD SCULPTiGO PUQTQGRAPOT ENROLL IN A MINIMUM OF 12 CREDIT HOURS ALL CLASSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH! OPEN TO ALL MAJORS! - ONLY 6 SPOTS LEFT. COME BY THE STUDY ABROAD OFFICE FOR AN APPLICATION - BIZZELLHALL WESTRM. 161,845-0544 BllsabOUt.. the cheaper more comfortable way to do Europe. 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