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Show Wednesday. Jury Family donates mistake 4 BfflilDion theory for Olympic arte rejected SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The daughter of S. J. "Joe" Quinney, who helped By C.G.WALLACE -- Associated Press Writer ,: FARMINGTON, Utah A judge ruled Tuesday that : he will not Becond-guesthe jury which convicted Dr. Robert Weitzel of five killing elderly patients. Judge Thomas Kay Rejected the defense's argus ments for either overturning the conviction or ordering a new trial. Defense attorney Peter Stirba argued that the jury had not heard the evidence necessary to conclude the psychiatrist violated the physicians' standard of "care. Violating that standard was an element for the lesser crimes Weitzel was convicted of, but not of the murder charges he initially faced, Stirba said. A jury found Weitzel guilty of two counts of manslaughter and three counts of negligent homicide. Stirba Baid the lack of evidence forced them to guess what that Btandard of care should be. : Kay said the stringent test needed to block a conviction had not been met. He told Stirba the issues could be better addressed by the appellate court. Weitzel, 44, initially was charged with five counts of felony murder. But at the end of the trial, prosecutors were granted permission to ask the jury to also first-degre- e September ft. "This is one thing we are able to do and we enjoy it enormously. The world is indeed welcome here and we are going to make sure they have the very best skiing and art" TIIL DAM Y III RAI D, (www HariTheHertld.com). Pure AS Provo, Uuh Romney petitions for $80 million from feds al funding for the Salt Lake games. It would pay for con- By PAUL FOY Associated Press Writer struction of lots and a massive bus operation, including maintenance garages and mechanics to keep a fleet of 1,200 buses on the road. SLOC plans to borrow buses from transit agencies park-and-rid- SALT f Symphony with England's "first lady" of Bong, Elaine Paige, on Feb. 15 and Feb. found a prominent Salt 16, 2002; and a Ballet Lake law firm and develWeBt repertory on Feb. 23, oped Alta Ski Area, will 2002. donate $2.4 million to "This is one thing we Frederick Lawson, Bhowcase Utah's are able to do and we Episcopal priest opera, ballet and enjoy it enormously," LawBon Frederick symphony during the 2002 Winter said. "The world is Games. indeed welcome Quinney and Nebekor, the The donation here and we are law firm for the Suit Luke was announced going to make sure bid and organizing commitTuesday by they have the tee. Joe Quinney in also the Janet aIT I very best C of a $9 million LMlC namesake and Bkiing Quinney LawBon and ar" cultural center at the In addition to the Utah Olympic Park, a her oldest son, V47HrV Frederick Q. Lawson, $2.4 million, which building that will serve, as will go to SLOC's cul- - a media center for track an Episcopal prieBt, in the lobby of Salt Lake's tural Ulympiad program, sports and ski jumping .the Frederick and Janet Olympic during Capitol Theater. Games. Lawson also made unspeci"It's an enormously genThe Quinney family Htill erous said Mitt fied donations to the Utah gift," a ski area, Utah and of the helps run Alta Symphony, Romney, president Opera Salt Lake Organizing Ballet West. Mother and not a resort, the family son are fund raising "gold says, that keeps lift tickets Committee. The donation will ambassadors" for the 2002 affordable at $35. Alta, finance a Utah Opera perWinter Games. which is not an Olympic The late Joe- - Quinney venue, is 10 miles east of formance of Stephen "A Sondheim's Little was an Alta founder, a Salt Lake City at the head Music" Feb. on Cottonwood Little 5, friend of legendary skier Alf of Night 2002; concerts by the Utah Engen and a partner in Ray, Canyon. ,. r9fLi 2MK). 3ftflV ffmm '' -- LAKE CITY With Congress Hdjourning in a month, Olympic organizer Mitt Romney is angling for a final $80 million in federal support for transportation projects. Romney, who will be in Washington, D.C. on Friday, says the funding can make or break the 2002 Winter Games. His budget chief lists the $80 million ns "high confi- dence" revenue, but Romney says Congress has to appropriate the money this fall, and that it won't do any good to receive the money later. "It has to happen now because we have construc- tion and planning to do and we are critically relying on these funds as the linchpin for our overall transportation plan," Baid Kraser Bullock, chief operating officer for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, Romney will join Cindy Gillespie, SLOC's vice president of federal relations, in Washington on Friday to meet with congressional and White House leaders. The $80 mill ion; would ' constitut e the bulk of feder , I lllll - M I I Jll I 111 I.IIH e I1IUIILIV. but has to pay to bring the buses to Salt Lake, buy fuel and provide room and board for drivers. LaBt year, Salt Lake organizers got $20 million from CongreBB for transportation" projects directly related to the games. Even if Romney gets the final $80 million from CongreBB, he Htill needs to raise $76 million from corporate sponsors to balance his $1.3 billion budget. After returning from Washington, Romney departs Sunday for the Summer Games in Sydney, Australia. He is going with 100 SLOC employees, who have assigned jobs at the Summer Olympics. Romney has a series of meetings, with Sydney organizers, potential Salt Lake and sponsors International Olympic Committee officials, Med school applicants down for third year first-degre- e consider the lesser charges.'Weitzel was convicted of causing the deaths of five in the patients geriatricpsychiatric unit he ran at the Davis Hospital and Medical Center in Layton, All five died during a from period December 1995 to January 16-da- y 1996, The victims were Ennis Ellen 85; Alldredge, 91 ; Anderson, Mary Crane, 72; Judith Larsen, 93; and Lydia Smith, 90. All were being treated by Weitzel for senile demen- tia. The erwise said prosecution Weitzel weakened the oth- healthy elderly patients with various psychotropic drugs, then killed them with morphine overdoses. Defense claimed experts , the patients were seriously ill when they were admitted to Weitzel's care, Weitzel said Stirba administered morphine as to ease the pain of dying. The defense is also asking the judge to consider a for sentence reduced Weitzel, will The attorneys argue that motion before is sentenced Weitzel Friday, Prosecutors plan to ask for the maximum sentence of 30 years, The defense motion would reduce the sentence to a maximum of 10 years. By LINDSEY TANNER TTI AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) - 6 The number of applicants to the nation's 125 medical schools fell for the third straight year in 1999, in part because of the booming economy and the '4i'M: Jt A i changing face of medicine, researchers say. The 38,529 applicants for last year's freshman class represent a 6 percent decline from 1998, when there were 41,004 applicants. And despite gains over the years, blacks J If If and Hispanics are still among applicants, students and admissions officers. 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