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Show Sunday, June Mr-Andrew- - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A federal bankruptcy judge has appointed veteran Salt Lake City attorney Roger G. Segal as trustee for Bonneville Pacific bankruptcy. Creditors have filed claims totaling $154 million against the financially pressed alternative-energ- y firm. Segal, appointed by Judge John H. Allen on Friday, will take over management of the company in the wake of last week's release of a critical bankruptcy court investigator's report. : The report alleges that a variety of former company officers and Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Cor-radi- ni enriched themselves through various offshore companies and questionable transactions all at the expense of Bonneville Pacific's shareholders. $500,000 bail set following shooting - WashST. GEORGE (AP) Sheriff's deputies ington County man have arrested a 31 year-old for questioning in the Friday shooting death of his purported girlfriend. Larry Oviatt was being held in the county jail on $500,000 bail for investigation of second-degre- e homicide in the slaying of Wendy Erven, 34. The victim died of a gunshot wound while being taken by helicopter to LDS Hospital in. Salt Lake City, authorities said. Sheriff Glenwood Humphries said police and medical personnel responded to Erven's home after a neighbor called about 3:30 a.m. Friday. Deputy Dan Endter, who said he arrived minutes before the medical unit, found Erven lying on the floor near the front door. old Erven's children, a girl and boy, 10, were not at home when their mother was shot, police said. -- small-calib- er SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -William Andrews, condemned for the 1974 torture slayings of three people, has petitioned the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole to commute his scheduled July 30 execution to life in prison. The board is expected to consider the request for a hearing next week. If granted, it will be Andrews' second appearance before the panel in three years. In 1989, the then panel voted 1 against commutation. However, Andrews was spared execution of lethal injection when the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver granted a stay. The board, now with five members, would be asked to set aside a death warrant issued June 7 by 2nd District Judge Ronald O. Hyde. Defense attorneys will argue that a new state law allowing death sentences to be commuted to life without parole should apply. three-memb- er 2-- - ter to the Board of Pardons that he believed Andrews may have sexually assaulted one of the female victims of the crime. He still holds that belief. the sentence. Dale Pierre Selby, the admitWahlquist, who presided over ted triggerman, was executed by Andrews' trial for the 1974 lethal injection in 1987. Eviof three people dur- dence against Selby included the Michelle ing a robbery of the Ogden Hi Fi rape of Shop, said Friday still agrees with the jury's death penalty Wahlquist wrote to the board that finding. despite there being no Wahlquist wrote in a 1975 let charge, he believed Andrews OGDEN (AP) Former 2nd District Judge John F. Wahlquist said the nearly 18 years William Andrews has been on death row has not changed his mind about An-sle- Andrews, one of the nation's g death row inmates, was sentenced to die for his part in the Ogden Hi Fi Shop slayPierre Dale ings. Selby, the admitted triggerman, Police believe WEST wants to dial up increase - Jiu.';-men- i Defense lawyers have argued that Andrews should not face death since it was Selby who shot two women and a man to death after a robbery. Prosecutors counter that i MAN ofthe HOUR ed the group y. was executed in 1987. longest-standin- PoSALT LAKE CITY (AP) lice have nicknamed them the "Preppy Bandits," but say the purported family robbery team was nonetheless and when allegedly surprised by a chef at a downtown private club, deadly. Salt Lake City Detective Ray Dalling said the four cousins are being investigated in 19 area robberies since August 1991 including a botched May robbery of the Green Parrot Cafe that ended in homicide. Each has been charged with at least one count of aggravated robbery, but investigators are considering additional counts . well-organiz- urge consideration of whether ,,. death sentence fits their clien crime. The petition goes on to attack th competence of Andrews' origin;. trial attorney and several element, may have sexually assaulted Carol Naisbitt before of the court proceedings. she was killed. Robert M. Anderson, one Andrews' attorneys, also filed j Wahlquist states it is his "belief that whatever criminal asobjection in 2nd District Court 1; sault was made on Mrs. Naisbitt, day arguing that state attonus the untying of her legs, etc., and changed the name and wording f t the Order of Execution of however far that went, must have been made by Andrews. ' ' without consulting del i attorneys. Wahlquist wrote that the state Anderson contends that ;ku ti medical examiner determined was an attempt to circumvent tiiL that Mrs. Naisbitt had been innew volved in intercourse within two proviii !' in Andrews' case. hours of her death. Special Prosecutor Dan MdVr kie said he will argue that the li! Andrews forced the victims earlier without-parol- e option is a point to drink caustic drain cleaner, and law. The Board of Pardons' cpt-that act by itself could have caused ating rules specifically pruhil it h their deaths. from reviewing legal or const if' Still, in their petition to the partional matters in a comniut; dons board Andrews' attorneys hearing, he said. Judge sticks by Andrews' sentence Police may have nailed the 'Preppy Bandits' - watched their targets for hours before committing the robberies, planning meticulously. One or two members, toting US handguns, usually went inside the business or home to commit the actual robberies. Another, also armed, would stay just outside the US door. The other person would SALT LAKE CITY (AP) WEST has requested permission usually be either strategically from the Utah Public Service placed to delay potential witnesses Commission to raise its rates by who might try to chase after the $31.2 million. suspects or the person would drive Under the regional telephone a "cover car" to confuse witnesscompany's proposal, residential es, Dalling explained. users would pay an additional "They're very intelligent peo$2.17 to $2.87 while business ple, except they picked the wrong users would pay $3 to $4.58 more profession," he said. per month. Investigators noticed some simiIn Salt Lake City, for example, larities in the cases and the atthe increase for residential custom- tempted robbery at the Green Parers would amount to $2.55 per rot. During that robbery, Merritt month. Riordan, 29, Salt Lake City, was US WEST also is proposing othshot to death when he apparently er rate adjustments, including an surprised a pair of robbers in the increase in the monthly charge to basement. withhold listings from the directoThe gunmen wore bandanas ry and directory assistance from over the bottoms of their faces, just $1.95 to $2.75. Coin telephone as did the men in some of the calls would go from 25 cents to 35 "preppy" robberies, detectives cents. The charge for directory as- say. As they ran up the stairs after sistance would go from 10 cents to killing Riordan and out the back 45 cents per call. Basic connection door, one of them pointed his gun Charges for residential service at other employees, who dropped would increase from $18.75 to to the floor. The case's big break came last $20. weekend when Dalling, who was heard over his police radio a report of a robbery as he was driving downtown. He responded to the Tool Shed to investigate. A gunman, wearing a bandana, : An SALT LAKE CITY (AP) black wig and green hat, grabbed Arizona judge has ordered the from the cash register and money 11 massive Chapter bankruptcy clerks followed him and Two left. 'case of Clark Financial Corp. and outside. But the clerks him tackled :CFS President S. Spence Clark a second gunman after him let go '.moved to Utah. appeared. Both suspects hopped Following U.S. Bankruptcy into a nearby vehicle and fled. Two witnesses chased after the Judge Robert Mooreman's deci- siun in rnoenix, a irucKioaa or suspects until a third man in a vehicourt documents was en route fedcle stopped them and said, "I saw eral bankruptcy court here, authorthem, I'll go get them," Dalling ities said. said. That man apparently followed "It's probably going to get pretand returned to the the ty big. I'm sure the judge in Utah storesuspects had been robbed. that counsel said CFS will be thrilled," Dalling said he immediately recJohn Hebert in a telephone interview Friday from his Phoenix of- ognized that man as one of the main suspects in the preppy-band- it fice. man robberies. The ', Clark and the development corthe detective a fake descripgave poration filed for Chapter 1 1 banktion of the vehicle, apparently to ruptcy protection in the Arizona throw police off course. court April 10. "But his information didn't In a motion hearing in Phoenix click," Dalling said. And the was arrested five days latJune 9, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge the stall that night. ' ' was "He er. the Robert Mooreman found "in Nathan conGalli, 19, and his the Lyle for and interest of justice Arron cousin interested Joseph Galli, 22, venience of creditors, of Salt Lake City, were both case the witnesses" and parties should be transferred to Utah, ac booked into jail Thursday. 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