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Show f HERALD DAILY M Putnam Continued from A 1 Putnam pleaded guilty to aggravated murder in March. As part of his plea deal, prosecutors said they wouldn't pursue the death penalty in the case. Jordan Putnam died in June 2007 from a multitude of injuries, including ruptured blood vessels that caused him to lose about half his blood to internal bleeding. An autopsy showed dozens of bruises, a cracked skull and evidence of strangulation, according to Dr. Edward Leise of the state medical examiner's office, who testified at Wednesday's hearing. Leise also said the autopsy showed that Jordan Putnam had suffered several broken ribs a week or two before his death, and the injuries were consistent with tight squeezing. Utah County Attorney Jeff Buhman urged life without parole for Putnam, who pleaded guilty in March to one count of aggravated murder in his son's death. Buhman pointed to the extent of the child's injuries as evidence that Putnam "phy tormented" and "brutalized" his son. "This is not a case of a shake or two of a crying baby. It's not a case of even a punch or a slap of a disobedient child. This is not about just losing their temper and maybe beating their child," Buhman said in his closing argument. "I think that, overall, society benefits from having offenders rehabilitated. ... However, there are some crimes that are so cruel, so heinous and even immoral, so vile, that society cannot and should not unduly concern itself with the needs of a particular defen- dant." Tom Means, the director of the Utah County Public Defender Association, said Putnam should serve a long prison sentence, but should have the possibility of being released one day. He asked Hansen to sentence Putnam to 20 years to life behind bars with the possibility of parole. "He's certainly responsible for the results of his conduct. He certainly acted intentionally in the conduct that he undertook," Means said. "But he didn't expect, nor did he intend, the ultimate consequences. "We only ask that the court leave that door open, that parole might ... be possible in the very, very distant future, probably a quarter of a century." American Fork Police Lt. Darren Falslev testified that Jason Putnam originally told investigators that the child had fallen off his bed but admitted to physically assaulting the child out of frustration at his son's crying. He told police that he didn't want his son to grow up to be a "crybaby." Putnam's family, including his wife, Mary Jordan's mother asked for the pos- sibility of parole. They testified that they had never known him to be prone to violence. Putnam was a doting father to his daughter, Trinity, now 5 years old, they said, and often served as a beloved baby sitter for his nieces and nephews. Mary Putnam said her hus band had his share of frustrations in life, including an inability to find employment due a recent prison stint for a probation violation in Washington County. But she described the death of their son as a mistake and an accident, and she said she has forgiven her husband for it. She said she hoped for him to be released from prison one day and reunited with his Debby Wu THE abusing Jordan several weeks after his release from prison, months before his son died. Of all the injuries Jordan Putnam suffered the day he died, Buhman said, the one that most starkly illustrates the depravity of the abuse was hemorrhaging in one of his testicles. Leise said blood clots had formed around the testicle as a result of intense squeezing, and that it had swollen to at least twice its normal size. "It wasn't a primary injury here. It did not kill Jordaa But what he did to his son ... had no other purpose other than to cause his son pain," Buhman said. "He probably does have many good qualities. But this case and the sentence cannot be about Mikaele. It has to also be about Jordan. ... This has to be about what a society should do to someone who did what Mikaele did to his son." I Jeremy Duda can be 1 or reached at 344-256- jdudaheraldextra.com. ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING Negotiators from Taiwan and China opened their first formal talks in almost a decade on Thursday, aiming to forge an agreement on expanded charter flights as a step toward restoring transport links severed 59 years ago. Taiwan's delegation also planned to discuss what ad- v ditional help the island could provide for China's earthquake relief efforts. The talks are scheduled to run through Friday at a state guesthouse in western Beijing. The Taiwanese team is being led by Chiang chairman of the ' ' Bsital Dental Assistant Exp. dental asst to work at Dental Spa exp req.General and ortho prel. Please (ax resume to Orem 1050 South 160 East. ibth. 2bd, $600mo $500dep. WD hkps, Swamp Cooler. No smkpets. 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He has said four decades has baffled tourists and he's opposed to repealing private-clu- b frustrated locals who drink, with both memberships but could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday. complaining about the hurdles just to get In May, the Utah Hospitality Associaa cocktail. Of Utah's quirky liquor laws, tion said it would collect signatures to put none has drawn as much ire as the one a repeal on the 2010 ballot. requiring memberships. "It's not a perception it's a reality that Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman subit's odd," Nate Daniels of Bountiful told the sequently declared that he would try to eliminate private clubs through a new liquor board. "It doesn't make sense." law before 2010. The public hearing The governor, who is Mormon, says strict liquor laws are a hindrance to ecoWednesday was held by the Alcoholic nomic development and Utah's $6 billion Beverage Control Commission. Bar owners complain that tourists are tourism industry. 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As happened last year, residents in the infestation area will need to bag green waste this summer, and sod, soil d and root balls to prevent the spread of beetles outside of the infestation . year-roun- area, said Orem assistant city manager Richard Manning. Residents are also asked not to aerate or power rake their lawns within the treatment zone. State officials are asking residents who plant gardens to create a barrier (such as mulch) between lawns and gardens to minimize beetle migrations. Lewis said the state is still eradianticipating a three-yea- r cation program in Orem. "We've had excellent cooperation with people there," he said. 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Close to BYU, . iff ..... imI Straits U XIAOGUOXinhua Exchange Foundation, and includes two vice Cabinet min- Chen Yunlin right chairman of Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, shakes hands with Chiang Pin-kuisters - the highest ranking Straits chairman of the Taiwan-base- d Taiwanese officials ever to Exchange Foundation, over a meeting table on Thursday in Beijing. participate in bilateral talks. Speaking to reporters late be enough to shuttle several to reinvigorate Wednesday in Beijing, Chiang over steps by Taiwan to shore Ying-jeosaid the talks augured more Taiwan's economy, in part by hundred thousand Chinese up its independent identity. frequent contacts between the Beijing insists the island is Chi- hitching the island's wagon to tourists to Taiwan every year below Ma's target of 1 milnese territory to be reunified China's economic juggernaut. sides that split following the communist takeover of mainwith by force if necessary. Chiang's delegation is seen as lion, but far above the current While most Taiwanese oplevel of about 80,000. land China in 1949. the first step in fulfilling that "In the future, we hope the Charter flights are now pose political union, many fapledge. The economic limited to four annual Chitwo sides can hold talks on vor closer economic cooperamutual trust and create a win-wi- n tion with the mainland, which planner said earlier this week nese holidays, when they are he expected to sign an accord packed with Taiwanese resihas already absorbed more situation," he said. The sides set up the dialogue than $100 billion in Taiwanese opening the way for 36 chardents on the mainland returnmechanism in the early 1990s, ter flights to cross the investment over the past 15 ing home to visit family. Ma Taiwan Strait every wants to gradually expand the years. agreeing to set political differences aside in favor of boostChiang's visit is seen as the weekend. Taiwan has banned charter schedule and supple-men- t direct scheduled flights since it with regularly scheding economic ties and private first step toward fulfilling uled flights by the summer of a pledge by newly elected the 1949 division. exchanges. China stepped 2009. The expanded flights will Taiwanese President Ma away from talks in anger tormm . . 4 Pin-kun- to have your classified ads in this section! AwrtiwrtJ HellWaiiM ' r LOOK MAT'S NEW TODAY! 373-64- talks open in Beijing Historic Taiwan-Chin- a family. "I lost half my family in one day. My poor little girl lost her father and her brother," she said during her tearful testimony. Katy Paz, Mary Putnam's sister, said Putnam was a great baby sitter to her four young children, who still sometimes ask if he can over to play with them. If given the chance, she said, she would still trust him to watch her kids. Donna Mangelson, another of Mary Putnam's sisters, talked about how good Putnam was with kids, including her two children. "They always had a great time," when he baby-sa- t them, she said. "They love Mikaele, Even now my youngest asks me every Friday, 'Can Mikaele tend me today?' " All testified that they had never seen Jordan with any unexplained bruises or injuries, and had never seen or heard anything to indicate that he was abused. Means emphasized that a sentence of life with the possibility of parole doesn't necessarily mean that parole will be granted. He called to the stand Jim Hatch, a hearing officer with the Board of Parole, who testified about the inmates currently serving sentences at the Utah State Prison for aggravated murder. Only 8 percent are serving without the possi- bility of parole, Hatch said, but of the 76 who have that possibility, 19 have been rejected for parole. Those who are granted parole serve an average of 28.4 years before being released, Hatch said. 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