Show A6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday March 1 9 2002 Cmoirtt refuses tio wenglhi WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore Kaczynski’s attempt to undo his guilty plea in a string of mail nearly bombings ended with rejec- allowing his lawyers to use his mcfttal condition as a defense over his objections and denying his request to ' represent himself “If Kaczynski can ever manage to get an evidentiary hearing on this issue he will offer testimony by mental health experts to the effect that the diagnosis of schizophrenia in his case is ridiculous" Kaczynski wrote Kaczynski argued that he was forced to plead guilty because his lawyers insisted 20-ye- ar tion at the Supreme Court on Monday The cpurt did not comment in refusing to consider ' Kaczynski’s appeal for a new trial in the Unabomber case Kaczynski wanted the court to erase his 1998 guilty pjea and let him take his case to a jury Kaczynski claimed a federal judge violated his rights by well-qualifi- ed on presenting evidence that would have painted him as ' mentally ill and the court would not let him act as his own lawyer He represented himself in the Supreme Court appeal which was neatly printed in ball point pen He listed $9753 in a prison commissary account as his only asset matheThe Harvard-traine- d matician who became a Montana forest recluse is serving a life sentence at a federal -security prison in Flo- -' maximum- MaD flair Uiroisiibfaiiinilheir reace Colo for the string of Unabomber attacks between 1978 and 1993 Three people were killed and 23 inji The government him the Unabomber because many of his attacks were directed at university scholars and airlines The Justice Department initially sought a death sentence but accepted the life term after d a psychiatric examination conducted over Kaczynski’s objections con: eluded he was a paranoid court-ordere- regret that decision he cannot relitigate his legal arguments in the guise of a challenge to die voluntariness of his plea” A divided panel of the San Francisco-base- d 9th UJS Circuit Court of Appeals denied Kaczynski’s request for a trial last year Kaczynski apparently wanted to go to trial so that he could air his political views about technology and science schizophrenic Solicitor General Theodore Olson the Bush administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer argued that Kaczynski got fair treatment when he entered his plea Kaczynski “solemnly stated under oath that he had committed the charged offenses and that he was entering his plea voluntarily" Olsen wrote “Although he may three-judg- e Continued from A5 Ma rHy I 1I Oil Change like-lo- $1'100 on the Net"' Mike Heimbach head of the FBI’s child crime unit described the images exchanged on the Candyman group as “very explicit" and “hard-core- Howsi Ucdranrili NnwtCMNilawi mc anpalr Mob-F- i H Sat taa-Up- aj State ' Only I9 " FBI officials in Washington ' declined to identify by name any of those arrested or charged except to list the occupations of some they described as “significant perpetrators" because they held jobs where they might spend time with children They said those people included a Catholic priest in the St Louis area a school bus driver in Albany NY a preschool teacher's aide in Las Vegas a child photographer and an unspecified clergy member in Philadelphia and a police officer in Pittsburgh In Las Vegas authorities said Beckham Baker 23 was indicted Feb 6 on one charge of receiving child pornogra-ph- y and one charge of posses- -' sion of child pornography Baker who worked in a southern Nevada day care center is free pending his next court appearanceFBI Special Agent Gayje Jacobs said authorities moved quickly to arrest Baker because of his job “Obviously he needed to be removed from working with children” Jacobs said The school bus driver in New York was identified as Shannon Timothy Macauley 36 of Constable NY near ' the Canadian border Macauley was charged by state police in November and December with sodomizing five boys Another arrestin New York was John J Schmidt Jr 51 of Dolgeville NY an elementary school teacher charged in November with receiving child pomogra- -' phy on his home computer from Internet sites Authorities in a few of the communities the FBI listed indicated Monday that no one arrested or charged in the busts fit these descriptions ' and an FBI official acknowl- -' edged later Monday that some ' of those people identified by their occupation had not yet been arrested A spokeswoman for the US Attorney’s Officein St Louis said two men there were indicted in St Louis County but neither was a priest or ' clergyman of any kind Jan Diltz the spokeswoman could not confirm or ride out other arrests but she said'no other suspects would be ' named publicly unless they ' were charged FBI spokesman Pete Gulotta id Baltimore confirmed that among those also charged was the Rev Thomas A Rydzews-- ki - : - ' i i an associate pastor at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore His arrest on Dec 13 had been previously announced there by aithori- ties out there was no indict tion of a larger investigation :t Rydzewski who was charged with possession of ' child pornography- - told die : 1 :FBIthathe“haslonghada : curiosity” about child pornography and that he sometimes connected to Internet news- groups dud proiqote it according to court documents in the - bunsMiMviaiiMiUiCva case- V -- v' - ' - - ? V i I - — y 'a‘ ( I I Porn operating as open exchanges for child pornography Organizers of the Candyman group described it online as : “for people who love kids You can post any type of mes-sages you like too or any type of pics and vids you PS If we all work together we will have the best group X I -- — : a " s - v - ‘ i1 v - —- - V ' ' r - |