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Show he Salt Lake Tribune rs SOMO SIDE Looking for authentic Sundanceparaphemalia?/D-8 FOR THE RECORD, D-2 SATURBAY MISTATE OF THE STATE,(D-3_ Sex-Offender List Gets a Mixed Review in Court BY SHEILA R. MCCANN * THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Utah's Internet database of sex offenders violates the rights of convicts who ‘had completed their sentences before the Web site was created, a federal judge decided Friday. However, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball rejected arguments that the database violates the equal-protection and due‘process rights of all registered sex offenders. Kimball’s written ruling requires the Department of Corrections to add safeguards limiting the public’s access to in- formation about sex offenders who served their sentences prior to July 1, 1998. MI OBITUARIES, D-5 JANUARY23, 1999 Ml PERSONALS,D-6 Justices Reverse Judicial-Panel Ruling Supreme Couft does about-face, says Conduct Commission can contain membersofthe Legislature. Lawmakershail decision RAYRIVERA THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE would erode public confidencein thejudiciary. ciary by asserting even greaterlegislative control over discipline and The Utah SupremeCourt stunnedlegislators once this year when it booted vid Ure, R-Kamas, one of fourlegislators removedfrom the board bythe ear- lier decision and its most vocal the next sentence, “Four members of the court now embrace the exact opposite position.” mission. On Friday, the high court surprised them again — this time pleasantly — by allowing them back on. In an exhaustive 44-page decision that had all the trappings of a mea culpa, the justices reversed their land- opponent. “It took a group of people with a lot of integrity to go back and decision, were examining a number of them for that.” Friday’s decision also restores faith in measures to increase legislative oversight of judges, including streamlined impeachment measures. with mixed memberships from the dif- der some of those measures moot, but them from the Judicial Conduct Com- mark July decision that the presence of legislators on a judiciary board violated the state constitution’s separation of powersclause. The reversal was a victory for law- makers, who warnedtheir absence from the commission, which investigates and recommends discipline against judges, “T’m tickled to death,” said Rep. Da- reverse themselves and I commend a multitude of boards and commissions ferent branches of government. But Justice DanielI. Stewart, the lone dissenterin the 4-1 vote, denounced the retention of judges,” he wrote. Then,in The Legislature. spurred by the July The impactof the newrulingwill ren- tices bowedin the face of threats from Ure confirmed that he will still introducea bill to give the Conduct Commission the power to recommend fines against judges and force them to pay court costs in disciplinary matters. the Legislature. “Variouslegislators threatenedto initiate retaliatory action against the judi- on the history of the commission's creation, filed in a brief on behalf of the ruling, and implied that his fellow jus- Newevidence presentedto the court four ousted legislators, helped swing the vote. The brief showed the framers of the constitution’s judicial article, which was amendedandenacted in 1984, intended for legislators to serve on the commis- sion. Further, voters approved the amendmentin a ballot which stated: “The Judicial Conduct Commission is composed of lawyers, legislators and lay citizens.” “The objective importanceofthis his- torical material cannot be overstated,” Justice Michael Zimmerman wrote for the 4-1 majority. “This case, like many others, proves the wisdom of the axiom that ‘a pageof historyis worth a volume oflogic.’ ” ‘The original opinion held that the See JUSTICES, Page D-4 The department will consult with its lawyers before deciding what steps to take, said Jesse Gallegos, director of constituentservices. But “‘atfirst blush,” he said, any limits on information about sex offenders would not apply to offend- ers convicted since last summer. {may be possible to pass a new version of the law this year to put some past offenders — such as those posing a high risk to the public — backin the database, said Reed Richards, chief deputy attor- ney general. But attorney JamesHarris. who represents the anonymous offenderchallenging the database, said helikely will argue restrictions raised by Kimball should apply to all offenders. Harris and the American Civil Liberties Union argue information about only the most dangerous offenders should be widely disseminated. Utah should follow the lead of other states, which release information about low- and medium-risk offenders only to police or groups who have a specific interest, such as neigh- bors or children’s organizations, they contend. No changes or additions have been made to the database, located at http://www.er.ex.state.ut.us, lawsuit was filed last year. since the Beginning in April 1996, Utahns could obtain information about registered sex offendersliving in their immediate area by making a written request. Neighbors were told an offender's address, physical description and type of offense — if the offender wasstill serving a sentence or had been convicted since the law took effect. Butlast July, a new state law provided for Such information to be widely avail- See LIST, Page D-5 Movie Buffs Case: Prosecutors Seek To Limit Defense Al Hartmann/TheSalt LakeTribune Budding actors work on their dance movesFriday at SLCC’s South City campusduring the Utah Theatre Association and Utah Thespian Society Festival. * BY PHIL MILLER ‘THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE PROVO — Just because Penthouse No Business Like Show Business magazine and Playboy videosarefor sale in Utah County doesn't mean theyare an accepted part of the community. Such BY NANCY MELICH welcomedto the SLCC campusFriday by school Presi- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE dent Frank Budd. He praised them for their interest in the performing arts and encouraged them to stayin- evidence, therefore, should not be pre- sented to a juryin the Movie Buffs pornography case, prosecutors assert in a new motion. “The defendant's distribution of obscene materia is not protected merely because a few vendors are engaged in selling similar material," Deputy County Conference gives young thespians a chanceto hearfromthe prosthat there truly is. The Scarecrowin“The Wizard of Oz" knewit, so did “We don't have a football team here, it’s too expensive," Budd said from the stage at the Grand Theatre ‘Thursday and Friday at the 23rd annual Utah Theatre told byour cast of ‘Damn Yankees’ that last Attorney Curtis Larson argued in the Association and Utah Thespian Society Festival at Salt motion filed Thursday. “Nor is the defendant's material madeany less af- Lake Community College, South City campus. front to communitysensibilities me becauseothers sharein his vulgar activi- ties.’ Larry Peterman, 50, faces 15 counts of distribution of pornographic material because Movie Buffs video stores in American Fork and Lehi offered edited cable version” adult movies until they were raided by sheriff's deputies on Oct er, defender Randy Spencer, has madeit clear through court motions and subpoe- nag that he plans to makethat availabil ity amajor part his case. something their counter parts were unable to do at Peterman's firet trial, which ended in a hung jury last June See MOVIE BUFFS, Page D-5 CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS Park City School District will hold a $3 million bondelection Feb. 2. A story Jan. 19 gave an incorrect date . COPY Keynote speaker Philip Himberg, producing direc. tor of the SundanceTheatre program, told the aspiring actors, designers, playwrights and directors to expect resistancefrom their parents and friends if they choose theateras a career. THESALTLAKE TRIBUNE PARK CITY — Salt LakeCity’s punk-rock scene camealive Friday night at the Eccles Theatre here. surprising moviegoers who couldn't imagine such a endino, “They stopped the Veteran costume designer Janet Swenson told a THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE they invented paisley and An AT&T Wireless employee who was shot in the head duringa Jan, 14 shooting rampageat the‘Triad Lava Lamps, It’s a very im- Center in downtownSalt LakeCity died Friday after. result I decided to make a &7 producer anddirector BY GREG BURTON war, they set precedents, portant time for me, so as a ™@More Sundance friends wanted me to do I would never have becdmhéa leaves behind husband, infant daughter ‘In the ‘60s, there was a group of young people who changed theworld,” said writer-director James Mer: CLICK HERE for easy choices. Takerisks, and above all, follow your dreams, If I hadlistened to what my parents and VictimofJan. 14 Triad Center rampage movement anddelighting natives who knewthetruth. FOR MORE DET) studyeverything, not just theater. Exposeyourself to challenging work, don't just go New Mother Dies From Gun Wound BY SEAN P. MEANS ‘by that law, medicine, eco- See SHOW BUSINESS, Page D-2 Visitors Laugh, Utahns Laugh Louderat ‘SLC Punk!’ Whenthetrial, scheduled for March9. begins, jurors must decide whether the Movie Buffs videos violate the communi. ly standard, were the best audiencethey have ever had, night you event, co-sponsored by Westminster College, con- er of the chain, which once included 25 Similar adult films are available via cable television and satellite dishes as wellas on the shelves of merchants in Utah County malls and in rooms of several hotels, Peterman’s attorney, public The “but wedo havetheater, That's our football team. I'm cludes tonight with a banquet at Hillcrest High School Nearly 800 high schoo! and junior college students and teachers from Richfield to Logan were officially 25, 1996. Peterman was general managstores, until it went bankrupt last sum volved with theater. Lola in “Damn Yankees": To be more than just a nothin’, you need a brain — and courageand talent. ‘That philosophy was heard and embracedrepeatedly My parents, who wereloving but protective, told me nomics werethe sensiblefields to enter,” Himberg, 45, advised the students to get the best training they could from challenging teachers and noon at LDS Hospital, surroundedby friends and fam. ily movie that has absolutely nothing to do with that AnneSleater, 30, leaves behind husband Chy tion that did nothing, the punk generation — SLC the couple's 6-month-old daughter, Erin ‘The circumstances of this case a youn Punk! SLC Punk! which made its West Coast pre miere Friday night as the first marquee Park City event of the 1999 SundanceFilmFestival — is a wild ly exuberant and surprisingly touching rock ‘n’ roll t thest LDS spokesman Jess Gomes hours after S) was pronounced deadat 2: ‘This was 80 unnecessary 50 Pim Informed of Sleater's death, prosecutors wa . I madea movie about my generation, the genera. storyset in Utah's capital city, cirea 1985. That's also See "SLC PUNK!’ Page D-4 — mily andjust the senselessnessof real . would amend one of three attempted murder _ tay filed against alleged shooter De-Kieu Duy, 24, tg Michael J. Miller’The Salt Lake Tribune James Merendino, writer-director of “SLC Punk speaks to audience at Park City’s Eccles Theatre. ‘ See MOTHER, Page ta s ela hheite te tah peal Salata De i i Stats boted |