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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withdrawn, that he not be forced to sit in the courtroom during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.
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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.
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