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Show 1- S8°8SS888 & 285 = — Co | prosn.” t ee Ut ah The Salt Lake Tribune SATURDAY/July 12, 1997 ROAD WORK Page D-7 Cooler Temperatures Will Get Beat by Heat After Weekend Enjoy this cool summer weekend. Heat will return by midweek. “A real nice weekend” is forecast statewide after the latest batch of showers departs this morning, said National Weather Service meteorologist William Alder. Coolair associated with the storm system should hold Wasatch Front high temperatures to the upper 70s today and lower 80s Sunday, while St George and Moab will be in More weatherinformation C-8 Some police departments are questioning tactics used by North informationto the public during a murder investigation. byproduct of the systemthat dropped 0.59 inch of rain at Thiokol's plant in Box Elder County, 0.4€ in Perry, 0.44 in Brigham City, 0.33 in_ the 60s are anticipated for the 8,000-foot level of the Uinta and Wasatch mountains, CacheValley and 0,28 in Wen dover. Only a tracefell at Salt Lake City International Airort, Another round of moisture By Monday, however, the was likely this morning in the 90s both days, Highs in the temperatures should be back into the 90s along the Wasatch BYVINCE HORIUCHI ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Front, creeping toward triple- More uncommon were Friday’s coolish temperatures, a northern Utah, but it should dissipate by midmorning. CLASSIFIED Page D-9 Officers Question Police Lie or Thursday. Hot spots like St. George could reach the 105degree range by then. digit readings by Wednesday Section D Salt Lake police who gave false North Salt Lake police invent ed fictional couple that potice said could have beenwitnesses to the Jill Allen murder. But other officers say lying could damage publictrust “We live ordie by thetrust we have with the community, Those are the people we shouldn't play with,” said Salt Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Jim Potter. “I don't know whatthe tradeoff wasor the effect it had on the case, but there would be a high standard before North Salt Lake Police Chief Val Wilson said his department hatched the plan of the imaginary couple to protect a witness. He also wanted a suspect in the case to believe other witn could identify him to protect the wit ness, who police believed had in side information in the alleged murder-for-hire scheme. Authorities believe the victim's husband had hired the killer Prosecutor William McGuiresaid the husband had taken out an in: surancepolicy onthevictim’s life. “1 don't know that every option was consideredat the time, butthe main purposewasto keep the man [the witness] alive,"’ Wil- sonsaid. “We apologize if there was any misgivings.” On thenight of Aug. 28, 1996, we even considered such a ploy to Allen wasbeaten with a baseball mislead the public.” bat and strangled. Authoritieslat- er arrested George Anthony Taylor and charged himwith capital Salt Lake City police Lt. Phil Kirk said detectives in his depart murder, If convicted, he could be sentencedto death ment would not take that kind of chanceto solve a murder case. “We withhold somefacts and information for safety or the in- During a preliminary hearing ‘Thursday, North Salt Lakepolice hopes of getting a reaction from tegrityof the case,” he said, “But to make up false information, in the short run it might help you, ite’ but in the long run it might have a chilling effect on your credibil- Det, John Herndon testified that police invented the couple in ‘Taylor. Healso said a “compos drawing of the suspect was actually taken from a photo of ‘Taylor. But policetold the public ity In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that officers may lie that the drawing was basedonin formation police received from the fictional couple Wilson said police made those atements to prompt morewit- to suspects during interrogations, andthe statementssuspects make as a result of that tactic arevalid University of Utah ethics nesses to comeforward. “We just felt that there was professorLeslie Francis said the moretothecase that needed to be brought out, and we were buying right or wrong, but what limita- tions society should be able to time,” he said. “We neededit to follow up every lead.”” place upontheactions of the po: issue is not whetherpolicelying is Rail Route Yet Another Inmate Death Mishandled Agency Fears Sandy Request Will Set Expensive Precedent Investigators: Guards Shouldn’t Have Moved Overdose Victim BY PHIL MILLER ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE BY MIKE CARTER ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANDY — Considering that light rail is a $312 million project, a few trees and some grass along the have mishandled another inmate death, this time UTA Balksat Landscaping Sheriff's homicide investigators say prison guards moving the body of an inmate dead from a heroin tracks doesn’t seem like too muchto ask. Or so the overdose and contaminating a potential crime scene. Misguided attempts to resuscitate David John Candelario by rushinghis cold and stiff body to the prison’s infirmary last month mean some questions Sandy Planning Commission reasoned Thursday night, The problem, Utah Transit Authority (UTA) officials say, is that if the agency landscapes for Sandy, everycity on the route is going to want it. And landscaping is notin the light-rail budget. Planning commissionersvoted 4-3 to preliminarily approve UTA's designs for Sandy’s two light-rail sta- aboutthe circumstances of his death will never be “C'mon, UTA, getoff your wallet,” Planning Com- mostly for their sake, had theyleft him alone and just called us like they're supposed to.” That the mistakes were made in relatively close proximity to the department’s embarrassing mi: adequately answered, said Salt Lake County sheriff’s Det. Mark Chidester. “This makes my investigation cumbersome,” he said. “It would have been better for our sake, and tions and the right of way, but added a condition: That UTApayto plant grass andotherfoliage. missioner Dona Dittman chided UTA executives. ‘Thetransit agency presented landscaping designs for its right of way, including a Sandy-funded bike and hiking trail alongside parts of the north-south treatmentof the death of inmate Michael Valentlast Marchcausesadditional concerns for Chidester and the state medical examiner, whoseinvestigation also is compromisedby the errors. State Medical Examiner Todd Grey believes the issue is one of having rigid policies that fly in the face of accepted investigative techniques. rail corridor. Butto the surprise of several planning commissioners, UTAofficials said the designs were all it would contribute; the city would haveto pay for the grass and treesitself because UTA hasn't included right-of-way landscapingin its budget. That was not popular news. “If you keep screwing up by the numbers,” he said, “there comes a time when you should change the numbers.” Candelario, 27, was foundin his cell June 24 by a “This oneissueis really eating at Sandycity officials,”” Community Development Director Mike Cou- lam warned the UTA delegation. “It’s a sore spot something you need to address.” cellmate, who then notified corrections officers: When theyarrived, according to department spokes Michael Allegra, UTA’s director of engineering, man Jack Ford, other inmates on the block were said he would take the matterto the transit agency's “getting rowdy” and a housing officer overreacted “He thought he might be able to help, but that he had to get [Candelario] out of there,” Ford said. The inmate — who the investigation would show had been dead for between eight and 12 hours — was board ofdirectors. UTA has doneno studies to determine how much the landscaping would cost, though Allegra conceded the modest grass-andbushes plans “probably wouldn’t be outrageous.” What worries Allegra, though, “is the precedent. carried to the prison infirmary. Weneedto befair to all cities. We can’t agree to something with onecity, and then not provideit to another.” Chidester said the guard should have known the inmate was beyond help. Rigor mortis — after-death rigidity of the muscles — had set in and Candelario showed advanced lividity, the dark bruise-like splotches that result when blood stops circulating UTA board memberRichard Kuchinsky, a Sandy resident, said the work would not amount to much in Sandy, maybe a half-dozen blocks or so, since the city’s trail would parallel much of the light-rail route, But he too worried about allowing cities to demand more than UTA has planned, For instance, he said, Sandy debated whetherto require restrooms atlight-rail stations, something UTA opposes. “If a city wants some enhancements,” Kuchinsky said, “usually the city comes up with the funds for them.” After initially fighting UTA’s plans, he said, Sandy nowis cooperative on most issues, “To quibble over a few dollars on this, I don't understand, They're going to [receive] a very positive impact from light andsettles to the lowestpoints of the body Ford acknowledged mistakes were made. People are being informedthat this is not the way to do things,” he said. ‘This case is being used as an example,” Grey, however, had hoped those lessons had been learned earlier, following Valent’s death after 16 hours in a restraining chair. Confusing and contradictory statements by prison officials and guards, along with the way the body and physical evidence were handled, delayed that investigation. Al HartmannyThe Salt Lake Tribune ITALIAN CATHEDRAL? NO, SALT LAKE COURTHOUSE Eddie Lugo and JamesCarpenter stand on scaffolding to paint the inside of the lobby area beneath the domeof the new Scott M, Matheson Courthouse at State Street and 400South in Salt Lake City. The $73 million projectis to be finished by Jan. 15, 1998. Still, Chidestersaid thereis no reason to suspect foul playin Candelario’s death rail.” New PTA Leader Presses Parents to Get Involved began referring to Craig and oth er students as “stupid.” Willie THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Barbara Willie never misses an paid an impromptuschoolvisit to check for herself and invited the principal to do the same. The opportunity to preach to parents about the importance of getting teacher soonleft the school “My theme for the next two involved in schools and their children's education. Willie, the new presidentof the Utah PTA, should know. Her youngest child has dyslexia, a reading disorder that makes reading and spelling difficult even for the brightest child “Craig, as a result, had yearsis childrenare our destiny All children growing up today need the advantages of a good education to help them prepare the next generation,” Willie said Safe schools, free from violence andgangs, areonher list of prior ities, She also says state officials hard time in school,” said Willie, who took office July 1, “If 1 had not been involved in the schools, he might have dropped out.” Willie, of northern Utah's Hooper, replaces Linda Parkin son and will serve a two-year term head of the 150,000-member itewide organization. She became involved in PTA when her children started school and served in statewide positions for 12 years, But her best and worst experi ences in PTA involve her own andeducators needto take a took at middle schools, which typically havesixth- through eighth-grad. ers ‘| Trent Nelnon The Salt Lake Tribune Barbara Willie just began her tenure as Utah P1A president. children and then dragged him off to kin “When Cr ig, now 25, started kindergarter I took himto school the first dy and he started screaming, ‘Mommy, don't leave me,’ The k adergarten teacher and principe! calmed him dergarten,” Willie said “T had that trust of thembe cause of time spent in the schools,” she notes. A more difficult memory in volves an elementary teacher who She said state education offi cials should recognize middle schools may be a better bridge junior high schools between ntary school and senior € high Educators and lawmakers agree, warning that Utah has in manyways neglectedits 10- to 15 year-olds as they struggle to be come young adults Court Scolds DCFSin Case OfFather’s Custody Rights BY SHEILA R. MCCANN THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE After a baby girl was born prematurely with cocaine in her system, thestate Division of Child and Family Services took her into protective custo dy in July 1995. A service plan, aimed at helping her Salt Lake County parents regain custody, was the court's order totranslate the service plan and find its violation of this order egre- gious,” wrote associate pre siding Judge Michael J. Wilkins, Whereaservice plan is not communicated to the par- ent, in effect, no plan has been provided.” After the parents failed to abide bytheserviceplan, the drawn up. But despite a court division changed the plan's goal to adoption, At trial in order, July 1996, the mother, the division never translated a written version of the planinto Spanish for the father of the baby, identified only as G.C. But the father, who spoke The Utah Court of Appeals scolded the division in a deci. sion released this week, but upheld the terminationof the father's parental rights on other grounds. who spoke English, voluntarily re: linquished her parentalrights to thegirl atly troubled by ‘s apparent disregard of Spanish, argued hehad failed to comply with the plan only becausehedid not understand it, Thedivision explained the plan in English to the mother and relied on her to communi ¢ COURT, Page D-6 Pig ee eg ee |
