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Show B2 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Tuesday, December 1, 1998 CLOSE TO HOME Allen Murder Trial Delayed for Ruling Clinton Sends $3 Million To Utah for Rent Subsidies, Utah Supreme Court to decide whether split juries can order life without parole BY STEPHEN HUNT statute, Daniels, by default, would have been sen- allow the Utah SupremeCourt to rule on oneaspect of the capital murdercase. Court wouldhearoral arguments by February. But it is anyone's guess as to whenthehigh courtwill rule. Atissue is a 1997 statute allowingjuries in death- Meanwhile, Allenis being held without bail at the Davis CountyJail tences with a 10-2 margin, rather than a unanimous the death penalty against Allen, based on research In September, 2nd District Judge Glen Dawson showing such convictions are rare when the accused is not present during the homicide. ruled the statute could be retroactively applied to Allen, whoallegedly arranged to have his wife, Jill Allen, murdered in August 1996. Accordingto testimony of two co-defendants, Allenpaid to have his 24-year-old wife murdered so he But last week, the Utah Supreme Court agreedto couldcollect on a $250,000life insurance policy. hear Allen’s appealon theissue. Defense attorney Ronald Yengich immediatelypetitioned Dawson to FOR THE RECORD Sergious Wright, 26, $30,000 to find a killer for hire. ney Carvel Harward joined in the motion. Neither side wanted a trial until the high court resolved the issue. Anthony Taylor $10,000 to commit the murder, ‘The night of Aug. 28, 1996, Taylor let himself into Allen’s appeal joins two similar homicide casethat ette Martinez, at her Magna home @ Eric ThomasDaniels is appealinghis conviction for the 1994 murderof a fellow Utah prison inmate. A jury used the 1997 statute to sentence Daniels to JAIL OFFICER WAIVES HEARING A former Beaver Countyjail officer whoallegedly allowed two convictedfelons to escape has waived her right to a preliminary hearing. On Oct. 13, Teresa A 30, allegedly helped two inmatesflee the jail coming romantically involved with Brady An- serving timefor aggravated rob3, in jail for manslaughter, also escaped. Both convicts were capturedlater that week Thomas was life without parole bya voteof 10-2. If notfor the charged with two seco: \d-degree felonies afternoon. Thomas wasfired from her job following the escape. On Monday, the 42-year-old PARKING NIGHTMARE woman appeared in 3rd District \ Salt LakeCity motorist left his carat 1375 S, 1200 Court asking to changeher plea to West, even though aresident told him not to park “guilty and mentallyill.” there, Whenthe man returnedafter attending a party Shay said she wants to be sent carly Sunday, he discovered the rear passenger win- to the Utah State Hospital for dowof his car had been shot out andtwo tires had been treatment of several mental illflattened. Salt Lake Citypolice are investigating the nesses, including post-traumatic vandalism: stress disorder, anxiety and major depression. “T want to get to the root of my problems,” said Shay, who has undergone years of therapy and tried different medications, while also battling an alcohol addiction. RAPE CHARGE Franklin Powers Dooley, 38, is accused of raping a girl ho is relatedto at least 50 times, from June 1996 throughlast May. TheSalt Lake City manwas charged Shay’s attorney, David Finlay- Monday in 3rd District Court with two counts of rape and two counts of forcible sodomy, all first-degree felonies panishable byup to life in prison if convicted. a the Allen’s apartment using a key allegedly fur- nished by Paul Allen. When Jill Allen came home from work, Taylor said he struck her with a gun and baseball bat, then strangled her. Per instructions from Allen, Taylorsaid he tried to make the motive for the murder appear to be robbery and sexual asWright and Taylor were both chargedwith capital murder,but pleadedguilty to lesser charges, Wright is serving upto 10 years in prison; Tayloris serving a 5-years-to-life term. son, said the earlierplea to thirddegree felony joy riding was entered with an agreement by ness. vehicles andsent three motorists no money, and she becameangry. “They were just hanging out brakes and collided with a Chrysler said her arrest was“the most devastating thing that has happened in my adult life.” She was charged with third-degree felony counts of unlawful control of a motor vehicle and failure to respond to an officer's signal to stop, as well as class B misdemeanor drunken driving Those charges were dismissed last month whenshepleadedguiltyto third-degree felony joy riding All of the vehicles Besidesindividual housing subsidies, oneUtah de veloper will get federal help building affordable apartments. Salt Lake City-based CommunityHous. ing Services Inc. will receive $1.37 million in grants to build a 19-unit complex for low-income, elderly renters, Most ofthat, a $1.2 million grant or “ca pital ad vance,” will pay for development, Communi Hous ing will not have to paythat money backas lon; the apartments are affordable for 40 years. Anotle $221,000 will subsidize rentsin the building ' 0 © Allergy relief © Improve air quality : Baci Trattoria'& Club* * Cafe Pierpont+ Deal ater ehCg hae eraen ean ee ea ae © Eliminate musty odors Microscopic Dustmitescling to Cc oO ] T Seq LeBaron. The dust particles in your home. CALL FOR LOCAL SERVICE Experienc ie seCos Trust. { 800 FOR COIT careenedoff the westside of Earn A Degree Without Cc inte tru : ption at the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business ident was under investigation. Hearing Aids up to 65%off ; I areer ambulance to Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful in stable ndition. 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Someendup in nursing homes during the wait 2 FOR1.. crossing througha redlight and striking a dumptruck that was pulling atrailer. The dumptruck then hit an Acura. As a result, low-income, disabled tenants can end up waiting onhousingauthority lists six months to 1 year before moving into affordable apartments sme auleBe tye] get - ——@ ea ena avy iy truck then proceeded westboundon CenterStreet and was unable tostopat the intersection ofstate Road 89, the road, The newsubsidies will open up housing eve where, Benson says. New ear-marked vouchers and certificates will provide disabled tenants on waiting ‘The things youcan afford you can’t get into, and the things you can't afford, you can get into, Toomersaid sal Jean Shay Shay, a longtime homemaker, help finding hercar. “I didn’t know whereI'd been, who I was or what I'd been doing,” Shay said. “I had been blackedout since 10 a.m.” Shayclaimsshe was told to wait on the curb while someone called her a cab. But Shay said she had have One hour and 50 miles later, she was stopped in Layton. groupof police and at the scene of a doat 657 S. Redwood West), and asked for ps ing right away, but they go on the waiting list with before we can help them.” Andnew, accessible apartments and homes are more pumpertruck and droveoff. At about 2:30 a.m., she ap- pea “We havea lot of disabled tenants that apply for housing,” said Danielle Benson, West Valley City Housing Authority administrator. ‘They need hous expensiveto rent car and taken mein for an evaluation.” Shay jumped into a $350,000 gereeyat 1 Richest eerie to the hospital in North Salt Lake on Mondayafternoon. Kris Johnson, of West Valley City, was driving the A-1 Disposal garbagetruck westbound on Center Street at 1:30p.m. whenthevehicle apparentlylost its icates worth $386,158. Disabled Rights Action Committee memberBar lost” — the result of mixing alcohol and Prozac. could she was “dizzy, disoriented and Uaeea ersor certificates worth $358,764 in rent.Salt Lake County’s 100 units will be subsidized by $454,919 And WestValley City will get 100 vouchersor certig bara Toomer applauded Clinton’s announcement pilmnedn the backof a cop CPACuEene Tag \ runaway garbage truck caused an accident that involved threeother abledtenants. Salt LakeCity will receive 100 vouch. County's 25 rentsubsidies are worth $93,951. Ceday City will receive 15 vouchers worth $55,157, Utah Disabled tenants are caught in a Catch-22, Toome says. Older, cheaper apartments and homesusually do not have the ground-floor entries, wider door waysand support rails requiredfor disabled tenants Judge Dennis Fuchs will consider the request Dec.7 Shay claims that on April 11, BSATamsnoice nei aiJustonetelephonecall MULTIVEHICLE ACCIDENT forthem. Utah housing agencieswill get $1.35 million in 349 rental vouchers or certificates earmarked fordis. lists apartments now, leaving other vouchers fo: MOLESTER GOESTO PRISON JerryTapoofof Whiterocks has been sentenced to 2 years in prisonafter pleading guilty to one count of abusive sexual contact on the Uintah andOurayIndian Reservation in eastern Utah. Tapoof, 41, was charged in November 1996 after a woman reportedthat he had se assaulted her. o announce $126.8 million in rent subsidies for low. income, disabled tenants nationwide and anothe; $696 million in grants to build additional apartments low-income tenants without disabilities. and telling jokes,” she said At least, they showedindications of mental ill- proached a firefighters mestic call Road (1700 will get nearly $3 million to help house disabledtey, ants. everybody else. Sometimesit's two or three years sault. prosecutors that it could be changedif an on-goingevaluation BY STEPHEN HUNT THE SALT LAKE TRIBU! Shirley Jean Shay last month pleaded guilty to leading police on an hourlong chase in a Salt Lake City fire truck in April o Wright, in turn, promised to pay 28-year-old George Woman Wants to Change Guilty Plea For Taking Fire Truck for a Joy Ride for aiding in their escape, as well as a class B misde- meanor forallegedlyfalsifying head-count documents so the escape was not discovered until the following Allen allegedly promisedto pay his friend, Joseph postponethetrial, and Deputy Davis County Attor- Utah housing agencies and nonprofit developers President Clinton chose Thanksgiving weekend ty Prosecutors had previously decidednot to pursue vote. also occurred prior to the enactment of the 1997 statute. @ Wally Ortiz is facing a capital murder trial for the Dec. 18, 1996, murder of his sister-in-law, Jean- THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE: Because some briefs have already been filed in the Ortiz case, Yengich said he hoped the Utah Supreme penalty cases to impose life-without-parole sen- To keep passengers’ headsupright while BY REBECCAWALSH had been unable to vote unanimously len’s Jan. 11 trial date was postponed Monday to they slept, Mercury Airlines introduced their new helium-filled Slumber Bonnets™ Building Grants for Disabled tencedto life with thepossibility of parole if the jury ‘THESALT DAKE TRIBUNE FARMINGTON — Accused wife-killer Paul Al- 895 Digitally Programmable $1295 compare @ $2498 compare @ $2005 || Call today for free hearing test! 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