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Show 4 - Wednesday, November 2, 1994 The Daily Utah Chronicle County District Attorney it Current county attorney wants to fill new district attorney position ik S.L. BY PETER J. VINCENT tougher laws to prosecute juvenile Chronicle Staff Writer REGISTER NOW FOR WINTER QUARTER! Projects for the Utah ScienceArts Center Winter. '95 (Index 3919) - to help design (create!) and prototype unique, interactive, educational activities (exhtots too!) which help integrate SCIENCE. ART, and TECHNOLOGY. Talk your (test friends into signing up to help you form a group project. You will wort (imovate!) in the new Leonardo Laboratory in the Center for Integrated Science Education. Students from a wide variety of interests (EVERYONE!) and majors are needed. Taught as PioE 596-- 1 -- U. underqrad 79 and qrad students are welcome! the current Salt Lake position of Salt Lake County district attorney. As district attorney, Yocum would handle mainly criminal prosecutions for felonies while the Salt Lake County attorney will concentrate on civil matters. Yocum has served as county attorney for eight years. He also has 17 years experience prosecuting high profile criminal cases and brings nearly 30 years experience to the position of district attorney. Yocum has been instrumental in the implementation of several innovative programs. One such program is called die Asset Forfeiture Unit in Utah. It uses profits seized from drug dealers to education pro invest in in training for for and youths grams law enforcement officers. This program has saved taxpayers thousands of dollars. He has aggressively and successfully lobbied the legislature to pass d anti-dru- Contact the instructor, J. Andrade, at (leave message). T A; James friggs, A Benmon Center Community Service Course. 561-43- Yocum, County attorney, is running for the newly-create- Utah's (fun!) new ScienceArts Center needs YOU David g offenders as adults. Yocum is currendy working to build better jails to prevent premature releases due to overcrowding. "Right now, we are working with the state to improve detention conditions for juveniles and we need to replace our county jail," Yocum says. "I feel that if we work hand-in-hanwe can accomplish this goal. We have the land and are willing to use it. We need a site that can expand into the future." "I am also particularly interested in the youth violence problem. I am currently working with the Committee on Juvenile Justice and the legislature to try to redefine the categories of juvenile offenders." He is also very involved with the Victims Rights Amendment which gives victims of crime constitutionally protected rights. "Allowing prosecutors to use hearsay as evidence will make cases easier to prosecute. Furthermore, it will protect witnesses' and victims' Yocum constitutional rights." Yocum is chairman of the Statewide Association of Attorneys and has led the legislative effort to establish a Utah Prosecution Council which uses funds seized from criminal offenders to pay for training of prosecutors. "For eight years I have served as county attorney. When elected. I pledged to run this office with the highest level of integrity, professionalism and commitment possible. I am confident diat I have delivered on that explained. promise." ft piiiiiiii&i d 'Enough is enough,' Gunnarson says as he targets juvenile crime BY PETER J. VINCENT Chronicle Staff Writer fflmMMldar THE TOTAL BODY FITNESS MACHINE 22nd Annual Park City( Ski Swap & Sale November 4, 5,61994 cm TREASURE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL Highway 248 East Park City Equipment Friday 4:30-9:0- Check-I- n 0 pm Sale Hours Friday 10 pm-- 1 am Saturday 10 am - 5 pm Sunday 10 am 2 pm Admission $5 Friday night $2 Saturday & Sunday Children under 12 are FREE Pick Up Sunday 3 - 5 pm For More Information CALL 9 In conjunction with the Ski Swap Don't miss Warren Miller's 1994 ski movie Vertical Reality, at the Park City Education Center on Park Avenue Friday at 7 pm Saturday at 7 & 9:30 pm E. Neal Gunnarson is the Republican candidate for Salt Lake Comity district attorney. He is a former prosecutor with 16 years combined experience in the Davis and Salt Lake County attorney's offices. "I believe my experience as a litigator will be invaluable to this office. My opponent's experience seems to be in administration than rather prosecution," Gunnarson says. is Enough," "Enough Gunnarson's campaign slogan, targets the youth gang violence in today's society. "In 1980, there were 15 juveniles tried as adults. Since then the amount of crime in our county has quintupled and yet in 1993 only 14 juveniles were tried as adults, Gunnarson added. "I've advocated more serious treatment of serious juvenile offenders long before I ran for this office. In my years as a policeman I the seriousness of saw first-han- d the juvenile crime problem," he said. Gunnarson, who is now a private Salt in Lake City, intends attorney to emphasize safe streets, to coordinate approaches to the gang problem and to maintain morale and respect within the office. On the issue of gun control, he believes that our constitutional right to bear arms is important, but seeks to punish those who use a gun illegally. Gunnarson also explained that he will be an active prosecutor. "I will prosecute cases. I am still an active litigator and I am a prosecutor who will fight for the people of Salt Lake County," he said. He is endorsed by Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett and by the Salt Hatch Lake County sheriff and Salt Lake City Police Association. Gunnarson graduated from the U. Law School and has been a policeman, senior trial attorney and a colonel in the U.S. Army. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife Susy and his six children. which raise money for charities including the Make a Wish Foundation and battered women's programs events which represent "one of the few ways to bring charitafrom page 1 Act would provide a $200,000 tax deduction for the first ble giving to Utah," Hatch says. With a Democratic administration, a Republican $200,000 worth of interest income earned by investors. Additionally, those making $50,000 in capital gains majority in the House and Senate would decrease rather would not have to pay taxes on it and any additional than increase gridlock, Hatch says, since President be taxed would an indexed Clinton on would then be forced to move to a more centrist gains rate, meaning that investors wouldn't have to pay taxes on "inflated position. amounts," Hatch says. "Up until now, he's been a captive of the far left," In this way, college-agewould Hatch benefit, people says. because their "future won't be Even if that hypothetical mortgaged away," he says. Republican majority failed to Hatch opposed the lobbyist UI care Hatch says, people decrease gridlock, reform bill which was filibusis a very, very good "gridlock been prime ... tered to death, because it was thing." "unconstitutional." Gridlock is a good way to stop education every According to Hatch, its lanbad bills of which there have to any size or been "a plethora" guage was so inexact that constfrom passitutional experts believed it the Senate." ing, he says. go through would stifle people's ability to "You can always pass a good Hatch bill." The petition their representatives. Senate's filibuster rule "Utah Representative Karen the protects rights of the minoriShepherd is not a constitutional Hatch ty, says. Other issues which Hatch supports are strengthening expert," and she did not know what the bill's language was about, Hatch says. the military, funding the Central Utah Project, saving The bill would have been "another example of Hill Air Force Base, trying to get a good private sector Democrats infringing upon free speech" rights, he says. "tenant" for Tooele Army Depot, overhauling the The bill would have made it impossible to hold Superfund, and working to improve highways and events such as the Jake Gam Ski Cup roads. money-raisinClassic and die Congressional Challenge golf tourna- And health care? "We can do health care," Hatch says. ment, Primary Children's Hospital, - d I've for you young a co-spon- sor of bill of value Sen. g Orrin - - |