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Show a ah Mountainwest Minority Reporter & Sentinel, Fetvuary 4, 1991 5 N Hi Fi killer is abusing system, says brief by Dawn House and Cherrill Crosby Tribune Staff Writers The nation’s longest standing death row inmate, Williams Andrews, has abused the appeals process by raising issues brought up a dozen times before, state attorneys said in a brief to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. And in that long process, the state of Utah will pay a Salt Lake City law firm more than $126,000 for 22 months of work because one of Andrews’ 15 attorneys is now appeyes by the state. The state hired outside counsel in its case against Andrews in January 1989, shortly after attorney Joe Tesch _ Thursday, October 4, a momen— one of Andrews’ lawyers — was tous occasion occurred when Mother named chief deputy to Utah Attorney Barbara McCoo Lewis, state super- General Paul Van Dam. visor of Southern California First To avoid a possible conflict of inJurisdiction, Church of God in terest, the state hired Robert Wallace, Christ, called the women of the of the Salt Lake City law firm of jurisdiction together to celebrate the Hanson, Epperson, and Smith. 90th birthday of Evangelist Reatha D. Ironically, he was a deputy Weber Herndon. _ | County attorney when that office first _ Evan. Herndon has served as a na- prosecuted Andrews in the 1970s. Dr. Haridon celebrates her 90th birthday tional evangelist in the Church of ¥S eS Mr. Wallace, who also served as God in Christ for more than 75 years. an assistant attorney general in the . She has been instrumental in. helping, late 1970s, was retained after Anto establish more than 75 churches all drews’ lawyer Timothy Ford raised over the country. | concerns about a possible conflict. Mother Herndon, and her twin The state paid Mr. Wallace’s law sister Leatha, known as ‘‘the little firm $112,479 for work done from: twin sister,’’ traveled together for March 22, 1989 through July 17, es than 50 years as an evangelist 1990. The amount represents only a rtion ofa at the state has. Bese and rf yy OP enlene| ELEC is TR othe Heae8e iets Fesides ie; will be..bil led. ~ Los Angeles, occasionally going outside the state, fulfilling evangelistic appointments. She has been national head of the Evangelist Women of the _ Church of God in Christ more more than 50 years. It is her prayer that the - young people will be as faithful as she has been through the years. ona Two Gunite. ‘bills: tot $13,678.24, making the grand total, to date; $126,157.82. Mr. Wallace said those bills will be submitted now that the state’s latest brief has been filed with the appeals court in Denver. In that brief mailed Friday, state attorneys say since Andrews first ap- pealed his sentence, 16-year-old the condemned death killer has had 15 lawyers represent him in at least a dozen legal proceedings in what now amounts to an abuse of the appeals process. Currently, six lawyers are representing Andrews, including Mr. Ford, who has handled Andrews’ ap- peals since 1978. Andrews now has 14 days to file an option response to the state’s briefs. The case is to be argued sometime between Jan. 14 and Jan. 18. Andrews was sentenced to die for the 1974 torture and shooting deaths of three people during a robbery at Ogden’s Hi Fi Shop. Two survived. Pierre Dale Selby, who admitted fir- ing the fatal shots, was executed in August 1987 at the Utah State Prison. Testimony showed Andrews helped Selby administer doses of caustic liquid Drano. Andrews claimed that because he. did not fire the fatal bullets, he should have been convicted only of seconddegree homicide. Mr. Wallace argues in a 69-page _ prison psychologist who cited three cases in which convicted killers had passionate, neutral judges has murdered again after release from thoroughly reviewed Andrews’ per- prison. : : sonal involvement in the murders Mr. Wallace argued that the with minute detail. Their statements testimony of the prison psychologist concerning Andrews’ involvement ‘“‘only incorrectly stated the imshow that this is not a cast of actual material names of two people’’ who imnocence.””. _ murdered again. And the potential Andrews, who is black, also conblack juror, who was a law enforcetends he did not receive a fair trial ment officer in the Ogden City Police when prosecutors dismissed the only Vepartment, ‘““was so strongly biasblack potential juror. He also obContinued on page 3 jected to trial testimony by a former brief that court ‘‘after court of dis- Jurisdictional ministers meet in Ogden The 1991 ministers and workers meeting of the Church of God in Christ met in session January 14-17, with Griffin Memorial COGIC serving as host. The meeting was presided over by Elder Bobby Allen, pastor of the Ebenezer COGIC in Salt Lake City. A visiting evangelist of the church from Barstow, California was the speaker on the first night, Elder C.L. Lewis. Bishop M.A. Givens of Salt Lake City pastor of the Deliverance Temple COGIC, was the speaker of the nights of services. The last night was official night for Mrs. Daisy Griffin, supervisor of the Women’s Dept., and Bishop N. Jones, prelate of the Utah Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ. The Utah church is gearing itself for the April meeting to be held in Memphis, Tennessee, world headquarters of the threemillion member Church of God in Christ. Bishop L.H. 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