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Federal court determin
cause of rampage, 4 de
BROWNSVILLE, Texas
(AP) — A federal court jury is
trying to determine whether
negligence or deliberate indif
ference by the city of
Harlingen led to a July 199&
rampage in which four people,
including two Border Patrol
agents, were killed.
The case revolves around a
gun that a citizen turned over
to city police, thinking it
would be destroyed. The gun
ended up in the hands of a
police officer’s son, who used
it in the shooting spree.
The jury of five women and
one man deliberated for about
30 minutes Monday in a law
suit against the city and will
resume deliberations Tuesday.
Attorneys are seeking dam
ages of $40 million for the hus
band, daughter and parents of
agent Susan Lynn Rodriguez
and the parents of agent Ricardo
Salinas. They also are seeking
$5 million for Raul Rodriguez,
a sheriff's deputy who was
wounded in the shootout.
Plaintiffs say their case may
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become a landmark in
standards on the polic
dling of firearms.
Sylvia Pirtle testified
week that she turned the semiau
tomatic assault weapon over lo
the Harlingen Police Department
in 1996 so it would be destroyed.
Ultimately, police Detective
R.D. Moore took the AR-15
rifle home, where it was stored
in a safe that was accessible to
his son, 25-year-old Ernest.
The younger Moore used the
gun in the final hours of a shoot
ing spree that claimed four lives.
Susan Rodriguez and Salinas
were killed and Deputy Raul
Rodriguez was wounded while
helping hunt for Ernest Moore.
Ernest Moore ambushed
the three officers in a corn
field. He also died from
wounds in the shootout.
“Whar is ironic is that a
weapon meant for destruction
so it would not be used for the
wrong purpose is ultimately
used for exactly that reason.”
attorney Fhice Ainsworth said
during closing arguments.
City Attorney Tom
told the jury the case
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HOUSTON (AP) — The fate of Andrea Yates
depends on whether jurors believe she was
insane when her five children were submerged in
the family bathtub, one after another, until they
no longer could breathe.
An expert witness for the defense will attempt
to convince jurors of that notion when he retakes
the stand Tuesday. The day will also mark what
would have been the eighth birthday of Yates*
first-born son. Noah.
Dr. George Ringholz, a neuropsychologist
from Baylor College of Medicine, told prosecu
tors outside the jury’s presence Monday that he is
prepared to testify that Yates was insane when
she admitted drowning her children last June.
Yates suffers from schizophrenia that began
during childhood and surfaced initially when she
considered grabbing a knife and stabbing Noah,
Ringholz testified.
Ringholz said he made his d<;
based on Texas’ legal standard, Vait
and family history' and a battery of tt
ducted on the 37-year-old former m
stay-at-home mother.
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score was well within the range of the
positive for schizophrenia. Jurors wa
mental illness is characterized by i
impairment in functioning and symptor
sions. hallucinations, incoherence and
Defense attorney Wendell Oo
Ringholz if Yates had ever been diar
schizophemia before.
“Not that I’m aware of,” Ringholr
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viously been diagnosed with
because her doctors only saw her fori*
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