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Thursday, Augis;
Teacher faces felony charges
believes investigation faultj
SAN ANTONIO (AP) —
A San Antonio high school
teacher and coach accused
of trying to arrange the
murder of a state district
judge says he is innocent
and a victim of deceptive in
vestigative tactics.
"I am shocked at the way
the police have handled
this," Carroll Graham Park
er Jr. told the San Antonio Ex
press-News in Wednesday's
editions.
Parker, a social studies
teacher and soccer coach,
was released from the
Beeville jail Tuesday after
posting a $40,000 bond.
The 38-year-old father of
two, who spent part of
Tuesday trying to hire a de
fense attorney, said he could
not elaborate on the
specifics of the felony
charges against him, but he
implied investigators had
lured him into a trap.
Bill Lazenby, chief of the
internal affairs division for
region IV of the Texas De
partment of Criminal Jus
tice, dismissed Parker's
statements.
"I think the evidence will
speak for itself at trial," he
told the Express-Nezvs.
Parker, who has taught
at San Antonio's McCollum
High School for nine years,
was charged Tuesday with
solicitation to commit capi
tal murder in connection
with an alleged murder-for-
hire plot against state Dis
trict Judge Mark Luitjen.
“I think the
evidence
will speak
for
itself”
— Bill Lazenby
Texas Dept, of
Criminal Justice
Parker was arrested
Monday while having lunch
at a San Antonio restaurant.
Investigators say the
plot was devised in April
inside a state prison in
Beeville by Parker^
hood friend, Robert!!
37, who is servinga&!
sentence for conspi®
murder his estranged.
Kimberly Lee.
Kimberly Leewasl
napped and herthrojl
cut, but she sun'ived
Lazenby said Lee,,
has not been charged:
latest case, becameirati
summer when Luitjer
om mended his appei
be reviewed by the 1
Court of Criminal App:
With another apf
scheduled before Li
Lee figured he'd hail
better chance with
judge out of the pkt
investigators said.
Cameras
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and recutting the loops, which are
buried under the surface at inter
sections.
Barnes said that, after completing
one lane of construction, the loops
must be reconnected in the completed
lane and the subsequent lane's loops
are then cut. If controllers are not able
to determine how many vehicles are'
in the intersection, they will not be
able to appropriately regulate light
changes and timers must be used.
"There are currently cameras at the
bypass [intersection] of Highway 6
and Briarcrest," Barnes said. "We do
not have the authority to install cam
eras at any intersections within the
College Station or Bryan city limits;
that is the responsibility of the cities.
We plan to add cameras to intersec
tions on University Drive after the ex
pansion is completed."
The cameras notify the controller
computer when a vehicle is approach
ing and needs to be let through.
Barnes said the monitor inside the
traffic controlling box has a mouse
that is hooked up to the brain of the
system, allowing controllers the ease
of constructing rectangles with the
mouse. If movement is detected with
in the rectangle, the controller knows
a car has come to the intersection.
Lee Robinson, traffic systems su
perintendent for the city of College
Station, said the city plans to install
cameras at six locations.
Converting the intersections to
video detection, Robinson said, will
make the roads much more expand
able, and maintenance will be easier.
"A couple of the sites where the new
cameras will be installed are the!e
sections at Longmire Drive and!
Prairie Road and at Longmire ft
and Deacon drive," Robiasonsaid,
Junior English major KevinBi
said the city's plan to replaceAice
rent system of magnetic loops
camera system will be beneficial:
cause the current system does)
seem to respond to traffic as effedi
ly as the lights in larger cities, likei
Antonio and Houston.
"At night, I've waited attheirt
section at George Bush [Drive]ai
Texas [ Avenue] for over ten miniit
on several different occasions,"Baiii
said. "Whatever is currently bet
used by the city needs to be update
because it's very annoying to wat
the lights for the other directionscoi
tinue to change from redtogree:
while you are staring at a red light."
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the school's budget. This
year the state has paid for
24.8 percent of the school's
budget, compared to a high
in 1981 of 53 percent.
To compensate for the
shortfall, UT and other pu
bic universities in Texas
have become increasingly
dependent on other re
sources, including gifts,
grants and fees. In-state res
idents currently pay $587 in
mandatoiy fees — about as
much as tuition costs. That
increase is a 38-percent jump
from $425 last year.
Still, UT-Austin is a bar
gain compared to similar in
stitutions in other states, and
the university expects to en
roll a record 7,500 new stu
dents this fall.
Burck said any proposal
will contain provisions for
increasing scholarships and
grants, but a tuition hike still
worries some students.
"We don't want to see tu
ition skyrocket," says Daron
Roberts, UT-Austin's stu
dent body president. "It's
good to have legislators
check on that for us."
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mal ad hoc committee have
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