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Show HWhiftitt Face Year Of Prison in Death Case Ex-Policem- Bv Bruce Nichols day sentenced three former policemen to one year in prison for violating the civil rights ot a drunken Mexican-Americawho was beaten and drowned in their custody last year. Terry Denson, 27, Stephen Orlando, 22, and Joseph Janish, 24, with family and friends present, stood silently as U S District Judge Ross N. Sterling imposed sentence A jury convicted them Feb 8 of misdemeanor and felony violations of the civil rights of Joe Campos Torres, 23 Torres was arrested Mary 5 on a barroom complaint and found floating in Buffalo Bayou downtown May 8 The sentence was the maximum prison term the law allowed on the misdemeanor conveiction. The judge could have imposed a $2 ono fme one-yea- hut did not Sterling also sentenced the three to 10 years in prison, suspended in lieu of five years probation on the fclonv inspira c charge, which ramie m ximuni Son Writer it ncl I Dead of Cmi'hol - DECATUR. Ga (AP The coauthor of a million-selle- r record has been found dead of a gunshot wound, police said Tuesday Bill G'lnmre, 38 who,r song. 'Cherry was Park," a hit m the rarlv l!70s. was tound on the fbv r oj his suburban Atlanta home Mowin' tight. DeKalh Cbu k John Count' Police pokes'" son said Gilmore apparently shot Toller himself Cl IP Trillion V is miu vir t.rl ". iitr pu m Wi!eiiy, ATLANTA iUPIi -The United States has achieved oxer the last five years the most dramatic decline in the national death rate since the discovery of peniril lin, a special assistant to President Garter said Tuesday This decline has lieen almost entirely due to a reduction in hear disease, Di Peter Bourne told -- --- us, ?:r vcv. SE sy'CNE S''" :pi KANSAS CITY. Kan Sen Rob ftnie Pi says the onlv Repuhli eans he would not challenge for the l!Sl GOP A presidential nomination if they seek it are former president Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan The Kansas Repuhli ran said he hasn't de rided when he'll declare himself a candidate, if Ford and Reagan deride not to run. 13th annual - Views Hare i the meeting of the U S Puls he Health Service Prtv fessional Association, at tended by an estimated members Bourne, a special assistant to the president for health issues, said, "A go v e r n m e n t i n i t i a t ed program focusing on diet, exercise and early detection of hypertension seems to have paid off " He said infectious diseases no longer pose a major threat as a cause of death He said that instead, leading causes of death and illness are those relating to lifeslark of exercise, tyles automobile accidents and the excessive use of alcohol and drugs, not to mention suicide " Apart trom a national health insurance prog ram. Bonnie aid the most fundamental contribution the government can make at 'he present time toward improving Amen, ans' health is to lead shift a traditional aw ay troni preoccupa- crisis health care toward a now ein tion with ) phasts prevention and a- W rn blt in d' id' t tni spirts fd u.sn !k about wnr-b9 Is .1 MLKL M.tx s D public kev to health are not the need to develop new miracle drugs or vaccines, or liAr Information, before ID ni j more limit- Wdter sophisticated surgery or other cal breakthroughs , medi- p m science, - - A Va (API SPOTSYLVANIA. year old Wiv desenhed hv his fannlv re scop squad about 1:30 a m Tuesday Mrs Gavis body was found in the priest as a "solid, stable individual," killed his parents and wounded three of doorway to an upstairs bedroom. Her his brothers with a shotgun at the husbands hody lay at the foot of a family's rural home near here Tuesstairway The woimded sons were found day, authorities said upstairs, two in a hallway, one in a bed. The youth, Chris Gavis, an eighth-gradeFour older children live away from at Spotsylvania County Junior home High School, was held on murder Ramey said five shotguns were found charges at the Rappahannock Juvenile at the farm residence, but that it had Detention Center in nearby Frederick-shurnot lieen determined what gun was used in the shootings. Solid, Stable Individual Spotsylvania County Common wealth's Attorney M R Ramey con Vincent J Sikora of St Farther firmed that the twin murder charges Catholic Church In FrederickMary'xs had been placed, but neither Ramey which the Gavis family atnor county police would give many sburg, said Chris Gavis was a pretty tended, details of the incident. ro'.il, stahle individual." The dead were John S Gavis Jr . 44, a "The Ga vises were a model, ideal retired Marine eaptain, and his wife. The parents lives were wrapfamily. F.dith, 41. Three of their sons, Mark. 17. in their children," Sikora said. ped up Peter. 15. and Richard. 13, were Chris was described by an unidenwounded tified school official as "quite a good Brothers Wounded student. His wounded older brothers Mark, shot in the leg and thigh, and were wrestlers and active in civic Peter, shot in the abdomen, were listed affairs at schivil. tn critical condition, and Richard, shot John Gavis Jr retired from the in the chest, was in serious condition Marine Corps in 11819, according to Tuesday afternoon at a hospital in family friends, and began working as a Fredericksburg substitute rural mail carrier in SpotsylThe accused youth reportedly called vania County. 14 a r g I Obituary Notices 1 1 eekda s before 5 pm. 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There was no fine "I have concluded that this was a situational offense which the defendants will never enrounter again and that long periods of confinement would have little impact, Sterling said. The judge reject'd federal prosecutor Brian MclDonald's plea for lengthy prison terms as a rehibilitative measure and as a deterrent to other policemen I think the defendants have not accepted their convictions and have not acknowledged their responsibility and have repeatedly described their art as a momentary failure of judgment," McDonald said "Fairlure was not momentary. But defense lawyers Mike Andrews, Mike Ramsey and Bob Bennett, who have 10 days to decide whether to appeal the case, all urged probation and presented supporting statements hv the defendants and family and friends. "I deeply regret that the incident happened," Denson told Sterling "I hope I've been as as honest as " "None of us intended or wanted this death. said Orlando Janishs statement was inaudible. But Torres' mother. Mrs. Margaret Torres, and about two dozen demon strators who identified themselves as people United to Fight Police Brutality, were angry. 1 don't think it was right I thought the federals were going to take care of it What do they think my son was. an animal1." Mrs Torres said. She said ' Life" would have been a fairer sentence: "They are alive My son is dead " I ruled Press International HOUSTON A federal judge Tues- HiU Carmk en &$&, .sr. T Iff |
