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THE BATTALION
Neighbors discuss inmates 5 stay in Colorado
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (AP) — One
Texas fugitive went to Bible study while others
talked about smoking pot or went to a Colorado
Springs bar, residents say.
Police on Monday captured four of the seven con
victs who broke out of a Texas prison nearly six
weeks ago. They may have been living in this quiet
mountain town for three weeks.
A fifth inmate killed himself after he was sur
rounded by authorities. Two others are still at large.
Dave Hansen, 41, a carpenter and resident of the
Coachlight RV park where the seven lived in a motor
home, said he attended Bible classes at the park with
Larry Harper, 37, the fugitive who killed himself.
“He seemed like a pretty nice guy,” Hansen
said. “He told us he had turned himself over to
God. You’d have no clue this guy was involved in
the mess he was in.”
Hansen said he thinks he knows why Harper at
tended Bible classes. “1 think he probably felt so
guilty about what he did. He knew the end was com
ing ... He killed himself and now he’s going to hell.”
Harper was convicted of aggravated sexual assault.
Mark Murray, 18, who also lives at the park.
said one of the seven seemed excited when he
was asked if he smoked pot.
“He said, ’1 haven’t had that in a long time,’"
Murray said. He did not say which fugitive he
spoke to.
Sam Guadagnoli, owner of America’s Beach
Club bar in Colorado Springs, said some of the
fugitives went to the club on Thursday night.
The men were on the club’s door surveillance
tapes and bar managers remembered seeing them,
he said. The men produced identification to enter,
he said.
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—News in Brief—
Illinois changes
death penalty
case procedures
SPRINGFIELD, III. (AP) — The
Illinois Supreme Court has set
new rules to improve the state’s
capital punishment system,
which in the past quarter centu
ry has released more death row
inmates than it has executed.
For example, the lead lawyer
on each side must have at least
five years of criminal litigation
experience; previously none
was required. And judges who
might preside over capital cas
es must attend regional training
seminars every two years.
Illinois has been the center
of attention in the death penal
ty debate since Gov. George
Ryan halted all executions in
definitely nearly a year ago.
Ryan, a first-term Republi
can, made the decision be
cause the state had released
13 death row inmates who had
been wrongly convicted while
executing just 12 others since
capital punishment was rein
stated in 1977.
Under the new rules, prose
cutors will have to make a
“good faith-effort” to notify de
fense attorneys of evidence
that could help the defense,
and they must let defendants
know more quickly if they in
tend to seek the death penalty.
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Moving With You. Moving Forward
Adoption and the Internet
Online hopefuls are not happy with results
NEW YORK (AP) — In the emo
tion-charged realm of adoption, the
Internet has proved both a blessing
and a curse.
Thanks to online listings thou
sands of parents have adopted chil
dren they otherwise might never
have found. In the wrong hands, the
Internet is a near-perfect tool for
preying on vulnerable couples yearn
ing for the child of their dreams.
“There’s bad and good in every
thing, even on the Internet,” said
Trennia Tennant of DeLand, Fla.,
proud mother of three girls found
on an adoption Website. “You just
have to make sure of who you’re
dealing with.”
The seamy side of Internet adop
tion has been spotlighted this month
as couples from Britain and Califor
nia battle for custody of twins they
found through the same Internet ser
vice. The Britons paid $ 12,000 to the
San Diego-based broker; the Ameri
cans $6,000.
Though the case has roused trans-
Atlantic outrage, it is not an isolated
example.
Harlan Tenenbaum, director of a
Delaware adoption agency and chair
man of the American Bar Associa
tion’s adoption committee, said in
creasing numbers of private, for-profit
brokers use the Internet to drum up
business. A favorite venue, he said, are
chat lines on which couples discuss
their interest in adopting.
These facilitators
are unregulated, un
licensed, essentially
uncontrollable."
- Allan Hazlett
President of American Academy of
Adoption Attorneys
Idowr
“One couple was on line for 37
minutes and received six solicita
tions,” Tenenbaum said. “It’s not al
ways a bidding war, but it lends itself
to bidding.” Allan Hazlett of Topeka,
Kan., president of the American
Academy of Adoption Attorneys,
said brokers also email solicitations
to couples who post information
about themselves in hopes of attract
ing interest from birth mothers con
templating adoption.
“These facilitators are unregu
lated, unlicensed, essentially un
controllable,” Hazlett said. “They’ll
send an email, or call a couple, say
ing, T can get you a birth mother in
a week or two.’
“If it sounds too good to be true, it
probably isn’t true. But that’s what
they're counting on: people so ant;
ious to adopt, they’ll jump at some
thing like that.”
Manipulative adoption brokets
are nothing new; baby-sellin«
schemes flourished in the past
without high-tech help. But thelD j
ternet has spread the reach of Ilf
greedy and complicated the task off
regulators.
“The Internet puts some distanct
between the unscrupulous individiu 1 a&m
and the people who respond,” sak
Cindy Freidmutter, executive direc
tor of the Evan B. Donaldson Adop
lion Institute in New York. ‘'Whet
you meet people face-to-face in yoir
community, it’s harder to getawaj
with this kind of stuff than whenyoi
meet them on the Internet.”
Enforcement is greatly compli
cated by the hodgepodge of adoptk
laws
“There’s no consistency amor:; Iper B<
any of the 50 states,” Hazlett saic coach
“It’s like a patchwork quilt.”
The largest Internet adoption sit:
is run by the National Adoption Cen
ter in Philadelphia, which haspostec
photographs of children since 1991
Its site features “special needs
children in foster care — a
of them are black or Hispanic,
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