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Show ,n~ ·'• THE STATE .. THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1994 ,, I Governor drops appeal for anti-abortion law SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - After years of court battles and nearly $1 million in legal fees, Gov. Mike Leavitt and Attorney General Jan Graham have suddenly and very quietly - dropped an appeal over Utah's . 1991 anti-abortion law. Withdrawal of the action in the 10th U .S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver occurred during the week of Sept. 19 - just two days after Graham completed the removal of her anti-abortion adversary, private attorney Mary Ann Wood, from defending the state in the high-profile case, according to a copyright story in Saturday's Salt Lake Tribune. Neither Graham nor Leavitt publicly disclosed the pi\iotal legal move even though, days after, both vowed to continue the abortion fight against the American Civil Liberties Union, which had spearheaded the challenge of the law. 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And while they blame Graham, a Democrat, the attorney general lays the decision squarely on Leavitt's doorstep. A spokesperson for Leavitt acknowledged the responsibility belongs to the governor. A separate appeal over fetal experimentation and a dispute over legal fees is proceeding in the appeals court. Study shows minorities more likely to end up in prison SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Jerome Miller monitors prisons and jails for the state of Florida, and this is what he sees: young black men handcuffed to each other, and occasionally to an older black ma n. As he once told a group of Utah Department of Corrections em ployees at a conference, "We've distilled 'criminal' to mean the innercity African-American male." That reality may seem remote in Utah, where the prison population, like the general population, is overwhelmingly white. But black children in Utah are statistically more likely than any other children in America to wind up in the criminal justice system. According to a IS-state survey by the San Franciscobased National Council on Crime and Delinquency, one in 12 of all black children in Utah will be involved with youth corrections by the time they are 18 - the highest such "prevalency rate" in the country. For just the boys, it is worse: One in seven will be in the system by age 18. The figures are backed up by a study now under way for the state Division of Youth Corrections, which has found that growing up black in Utah means you are 26 times more likely to be locked up in the juvenile corrections system than if you are white. If you are Hispanic, you are seven times more likely to be locked up by the time you are 18. Such numbers are an indicator that fear of nonwhite youth is driving public policy, say Miller and others. "Gang violence is a code word for black or Latino crime, " Miller said from his Alexandria, Va.-based National Center on Institutions and Alternatives. |
