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Show UTAH 12A Thursday, Jan. 16, 1992 Standard-Examiner State appeals ruling on Lafferty ing Ronald W. Lafferty’s two murder convictions and death penalty. The stay will remain until March 13 while the state seeks to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. It could be made permanent if the high court agrees to hear the case. Lafferty was sentenced to death for the Juiy 24, 1984 slashing deaths of his sister-in-law, Brenda Wright Lafferty and her 15- American Fork home. By a vote of 2-1, a panel ofcircuit court judges ruled Dec. 9 that the judge in Lafferty’s trial used Latterty claimed he and his brother, Dan, had received a revelation ordering them to “rethe victims. The move” revelation said they were standing in the way of preparations for the second coming of Jesus Christ. the wrong legal standard in determining his competencyto stand trial. The court set aside Lafferty’s conviction and sentence but said the state is free to retry him. The Utah attorney general's of- Dan Lafferty also was convict- ed for the killings but was sentenced to life in prison after a jury deadlocked 11-1 on the death penalty. al Charlene Barlow said she is preparing a brief to present to the U.S. Supreme Court. She said it will address twoisSues she hopes will pique the high court’s interest — conflicting opinions on thecase issued bythe Utah SupremeCourt andthe appeais court, and the issue of how courts deal with religious beliefs. fice asked for the stay last Thurs- day after it failed to win a rehearing before all 10 appeals court judges. Assistant Utah Attorney Gener- Meantime, state prosecutors if there are any genetic similarities between the request before paying Barnard. Last week, Barnard threatened to U.S. Magisirate Ronald Boyce has ordered the county to payattorney Brian Barnard for his time garnishee the wages of Bradley and Commissioner Randy Horiuchi after they attempted to stall pay- representing 37 inmates at the ments decline to hear the case. representing a charitable group similar to the United Way. In that case, Barnard said the hourly rate of $125. The court last year awarded each of the inmates between $200 and county discriminated against Com- $700 and placed a cap on the num- solicit county employees the way the United Way does. After the ber of inmates the county could county agreed to allow the group to house in the jail. That cap disappeared last month when the county opened a new jail. solicit, the court ordered the coun- what happened to them proliferated,” said Daniel Buck, a Washington historian who is working with Snow on the project for the British TV cause of overcrowding. The payment is based on an Barnard, who frequently targets to him for his work munity Shares by not allowingit to ty to pay Barnard for his services — again at $125 an hour. Barnard announced Tuesday he is donating $500 from that case to local governments and the State Bar Association, said the more Community Shares and another than $13,000 hecollected from the $500 to the Hinckley Institute of county this month won’t lead to a Politics at the University of Utah. Alpineclassified workers get pay raise AMERICAN FORK (AP) — The Aipine District Board of Edu- district employees to negotiate cation have approved a pay raise for the district’s classified employ- The issue of hourly workers had delayed the negotiations. ees. Bus drivers, custodians, lunchroom workers, teacher aides and secretaries will receive a 2 to 2.45 percent salary increase, along with a one percent bonus. _ Part-time hourly workers will be given a 5-cent-per-hour increase. Classified workers are the last their contracts with the district. The board also approved a seven-period education schedule to replace the a trimester program that was voted down at Canyon View Junior High School in Orem The program will start next year. Board members said the plan will be a short term solution until more schools can be funded and built or alternatives are explored. @ EASILY CUSTOMIZED BINDING PLACEMENT @ KEVLAR REINFORCMENT ate #461620210 ata SAVE 46% we've actually managed to put a gene into a virus that’s effective. The virus itself has been around and has been used, but until just recently no one was able to get much of an exciting effect,” he said. NPS would not disclose the species of spider involved, but Fuller said it was “not uncommon and nothing exotic — certainly not one toxic to humans and animals.” In nature, the toxin is delivered to insects in the spider’s venom. 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The result was a substance “highly effective and specific” which breaks down in the environment and appears harmless to humans and other mammals. that prey on major row cropslike corn and cotton. “Welike to think we will be replacing and competing with organic employees out there,” he said. e FOR THE SKIER WITH NO BOUNDARIES e RADICAL MANEUVERSIN DIFFICULT CONDITIONS REG. e 8.3 SIDEOUT 495.00 #462033068 ded the cloned toxin gene of the The trials could be approved in one to three years, Fuiler said. Product development would be much further down the road. If and when that occurs, Fuller said, the pesticide’s primarytarget $5,500 to an attorney representing jail inmates with civil rights complaints against the county. “EXTREME” ALPINE SKI “Our goal from the beginning of this project has been to develop a product for control of major crop pests that is both environmentally safe and effective,” said NPS chairman and chief executive officer Hunter Jackson. “Nature has provided the necessary parts and the techniques of § modern biology have provided the means to assemble them into a potent combination.” Fuller said the NPS team took a naturally occurring virus known to control leaf-eating insects and ad- Jeff Jacoby. “Rest assured, | make lot less money than some of the county OPEN DAILY TIL 9 P.M. SAT. TIL 6 P.M. SUN. 11-5 P.M. MALL STORES MALL HOURS SALT LAKE CITY(AP) — Scientists in Utah and Illinois say they've produced an environmentally safe pesticide using a genetically-engineered spider toxin gene. The discovery represents a new approach to the multibillion-dollar pest control industry and indicates spiders are even moreof a friend to farmers than previously believed, Forrest Fuller, director of molecular biology at Natural Product Sciences Inc., said Tuesday. The pesticide resulted from a three-year collaboration between Salt Lake City-based NPS and FMCCorp. of Chicago, which helped fund the study and retains marketing rights. “tricked into thinking” the gene was its own. Components of the pesticide are biodegradable, but NPS scientists also removed a gene that would normally allowthe virus to survive in the soil after the host insect dies. Research data on the pesticide is now being evaluated, and the next step will be obtaining Environmental Protection Agencyapproval for field trials, said FMC spokesman weren't too happy to be paying countyjail. The inmates sued be- remains and descendants of the two men. Snowsaid physical and circumstantial eviprogram “Nova.” dence suggests Cassidy shot Sundance in the head, then killed himself while under attack by Last month he unearthed a skeletonthat he Bolivian soldiers. Skulls from both bodies consaid is about the same height — 5-foot-1i — as tain bullet holes. the Sundance Kid was believed to be. He also “It sounds to me like ... they may have been unearthed a skuil and some boneshe believes wounded, and Butch Cassidy shot Sundance were Cassidy’s. Kid and shot himself.” Snowsaid. ; According to a 1909 investigation by the U.S. Newspaper accounts and a U.S. investigation vice consul in Bolivia, the soldiers said they indicate Cassidy and Sundance — on the lam took part in a gunfight with two English-speakfor a string of bank and train robberies — were ~ing outlaws holed up in a house. Thebattle endkilled in November 1908 in a gunfight with soled, the soldiers said, when they heard cries and diers who tracked them to San Vicente. then two shots coming from the house. But sightings of them in following years came Cassidy used Utah’s Capitol Gorge as a hidefrom all around the world. out in the 1880s. “Because they disappeared, the legends about Pesticide replicates spider toxin tax increase. are preparing to refile charges against Lafferty in preparation of anothertrial, should the justices Scientist optimistic he uncovered remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid OKLAHOMACITY (AP) — scientist who helped identify the body of Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele says he may have found the remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Bolivia, wherelegend has it the two died in a shootout. Forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow said in a recent interview he is “guardedly optimistic” that the bones uncovered in a cemetery in the Andean village of San Vicente last month are those of the American outlaws. A San Vicente man who said his father told him Cassidy and Sundance were buried there 83 years ago directed Snowto the single grave containing both sets of remains. Bodies are buried on top of one another in the cemetery. Snow said he will use computer imaging to try to produce pictures of two humans from the remains. He mayalso conduct DNAtests to see SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Sait Lake County commissioners Myreisteeeie Petia ateisha ioki eh mil:40) 4021 SALE DATES THROUGH 1-22-92 USE YOUR CREDIT RAINCHEC ARE GIVE LEARLY. eates FatQulant) + ES ERE SOME INTERMEDIATE By re ee. note agreed to stay its ruling overturn- month-old daughter, Erica, who were found murdered in their 2ND LEVEL 24TH & WASHINGTON 399-2310 € BEEN TAKEN 5585 S$. 1900 W. 776-4453 . 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