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Smith awarded millions i
Marshall estate settlemeii
Being the only African American student in a
class of hundreds would have made me uneasy at
many schools, but not at Texas A&M.
My experiences in Aggieland showed me the
true meaning of The Aggie Spirit. We shared a com
mon bond that cut through racial and religious
boundaries, and I never felt like I didn't belong.
In fact, I stay in touch with a lot of my classmates
to share the progress of each other's freshman
dreams.
I live in Vancouver, Washington and drive a
maroon car with an Association of Former Students
Century Club decal proudly displayed on the win
dow. As for my Aggie Ring, it continues to keep me
connected to The Aggie Network that I know I will
always belong to. l am The Aggie Network.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fed
eral bankruptcy judge awarded for
mer Playboy Playmate of the Year
Anna Nicole Smith $449.7 million
Wednesday in her claim to the estate
of her late billionaire husband,
Texas oilman J. Howard Marshall.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Samuel
Bufford ruled that Marshall’s
youngest son, E. Pierce Marshall,
had deprived Smith “of her ex
pectancy of an inheritance.”
The decision also will result in
Smith being awarded punitive
damages, her attorney, Philip
Boesch Jr., told The Associated
Press Wednesday night.
Smith, who was in Houston on
Wednesday, was “very pleased”
and believes the ruling “puts the
matter to rest,” Boesch said.
“I think she knows that it’s a first
step and she’s taking some time to
digest this,” he added.
Marshall called the ruling a
“miscarriage of justice.”
Bufford’s decision came just a
day before jury selection was sched
uled to end in probate court in Hous
ton in a dispute over the validity of
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tinuing in Hous
ton, where we ex
pect our verdict to
make the one in
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Marshall’s will, which left all of the
oilman’s estate to his youngest son.
That case pits both Smith and
shall’s oldest son, J. Howard
shall III. against E. PierceManl
“We are very pleased than
eral judge has agreed with thej
tion that we have been advoca
for the last several years. W
forward to our trial continuin'
Houston, where we expect our
diet to make the one in Los Am
look small,” said Terry Gilei
torney representing J. Howard
shall III in the Texas case
Smith testified in Los Am
last year that E. Pierce MarsWI
frauded her of between $556
lion and $820 million she was
tied to as her share of her
husband’s estate.
The former model for Pla]
Guess jeans and other magi
and advertisements, was wori
as a stripper at a topless bt
Houston when she met Mars:
She was 26 and he was 89»:
they were married in 1994
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McGinn executed
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) —
Time finally ran out for convicted
killer Ricky McGinn.
McGinn, 43, who avoided the
Texas death chamber twice earlier
this year — first because of a torna
do and a second time when Gov.
George W. Bush uncharacteristical
ly stepped in with a reprieve — was
quietly executed Wednesday
evening for raping and fatally beat
ing his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
“‘I don’t want nobody to be mad
at nobody,” he said in a brief final
statement while strapped to the
death-house gurney, needles in each
arm. “I don’t want nobody to be bit
ter. Keep clean hearts and I will see
y’all on the other side.”
He smiled at his sobbing mother
and siblings watching through a
window a few feet away, then
closed his eyes, sputtered and ut
tered a slight groan. Eight minutes
later, he was pronounced dead.
McGinn insisted he was inno
cent of the 1993 killing of Stephanie
Flanary and said additional DNA
tests on hair and semen evidence
would prove his case. Only minutes
from execution June 1. McGinn
won a 30-day reprieve from Bush
so new tests could be conducted.
That death date had been
rescheduled because a tornado
swept through his lawyer’s office in
downtown Fort Worth.
The reprieve from Bush marked his
first use of a Texas governor’s author
ity to halt an execution for 30 days.
The action, in the midst of Bush’s bid
to secure the Republican presidential
nomination, was viewed as an exam
ple of compassionate conservatism.
— News in Brief
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health care fraui
DALLAS (AP) — Federal;!
thorities have issued arrest*
rants for six North Texas mer
leged to have run a twt-yt:
scheme that bilked thousands
dollars from the state's wort
compensation fund.
According to federal inde
ments, the three chiropracto
and three health workers o
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conference related to the charge;
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Source: Henry Dethloff. .4 Pictorial History of Texas A&M University’ 1876-1976. The Centennial Series of the Association
of Former Students, Texas A&M University; no.2. Texas A&M University Press, 1975.
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