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Leland Woman Sentenced To 1 8 Years In Murder Plea BY EiUC CARLSON A Leland woman accuaed of slit ting bcr boyfriend's throat with a ra zor knife last February pleaded no contest to aeoond-degree murder and was sentenced to 18 years in prison Monday. The slender Monde defendant, Lillie Darlene Doraey, 34, stood silently and hung her head as Assistant District Attorney Lee Bollmgrr recounted the events lead ing to the death at her houae mate, 23-year-old Nazario Hernandez Martinez. Originally charged with first-de gree murder, Dorsey agreed to plead no-contest an part of a pica bargain. Bniiiiyf told Superior Court Judge Knox Jenkins that the stale's evidence would have shown that Doraey left home early in the evening of Feb. 6 to meet a friend at a Wilmington Ink. When Martinez showed up about an hour later, the two got into an argument and were asked to leave. **11.. iL 1 ? n ,i- r ? ?_ i at tsotn nad Dccn anmang neavuy, Bollinger said. A witness told poiice that Martinez got into a fight with another person outside the bar. Arriving at the trailer they shared in Leland's Hood Creek Mobile Home Park, Doraey and Martinez continued their argument in the yard, where it escalated into threats and "some pushing and short*" aid. A neighbor who beard the commotion said he saw Martinez breaking bottles an a car near the trailer. Filially Doraey went into the mo bile home and left Martinez outside banging on the loctond door. After mare arguing, Bollinger said Doraey wept into 9 bedroom and gpt an oc angc razor-blade bow cotter. Sim slipped out the back door; walked around to the front of the trailer and Dorsey's datiglilfi, who was in side the wM* linno told polwr that she saw her mother put the knife to the throat of Martinez and slash him, Bollinger told the judge. When the iwighirii opened the door, the fatally wounded man fell the living room floor. Witnesses later said they Doraey holding a doth to Martinez's tnroot, trying to oootroi me tHccuing. They said she was extremely opart a ? * . . n _ a; s_ tt ?t_ . ^ . ana ctaimca sue umhi i realize wn* had happened. Martinez died a short .? ?_ . a good difficulty the state might have en countered in convincing a jury that the killing waa pre-un dHalnl in 1968, Doraey waa given a two ntwg oocivigsm oc two counts oi as * with a deadly weapon by nm two people with a speed Boat Smart Safe Boat Sober When you leave the Brunswick shores^B I the Beacon with you! Board Blasted For Shorthanded Sewer Vote ?Y ERIC CARLSON -Dirty politics. Dirty politics. Dirty politics." Hut's how Calabwh District 1 Commits ionri Keith Hardee dc ? ? -? - *- an. _ MKMl IOC lows Dunu a iguub wac to spend $4.5 million on the pur chase of a sewer system that current ly sevss the Csrclin: Shore: ccss munity of District 1 It was a sentiment echoed in dif ferent words Tuesday night by Commissioner Ed Schaack, who was out of town when a special meeting was called to consider whether Calabash should buy the Carolina Blythe Utilities Co. With Schaack absent, the board's vole at a May 19 meeting was split 3-to-3 on the question until Mayor George Anderson voted to support Although Sthaark did not indi cate how he would have voted on the piopoeed acquisition Tuesday, be left little doubt about how be felt the mattrr was handled. Schaack was also highly critical V of a report given by a three-member committee of Carolina Biytbe cus tomers that ''unqualifiedly recom mends the purchase" and speaks glowingly of company owner Billy ?t ? . ouincu. "I am highly upset about the ac tion the board took while I was ab sent," Schaacte ssid. "Thii report is hogwash. It takes the same old fig ures and massages them to support a foregone conclusion. When I read it, I was surprised that Billy Burnett wasn't beatified by the time I got back." In its financial analysis at the pro posed purchase, Schaack said the re pott ignores several important ex pense variables, including the fact that Carolina Biytbe purchases some of its raw water from Brunswick County, which could raise rates at any time. He said the report also fails to include numerous expenses the town would have to incur in or der to buy the company. ~Tne whole report is worthless,1* Schaack said. He also insisted thai the docunKSt should have been brought before the town's sewer committee? of wWrfc he is a member ? for the group's frmairtrrtinii ?nH reco? wd^iona before being presented to me com missioners. "I am seriously upset that you didn't adhere iu the established committee procedure," be said. "We might as well get rid of committees if this is bow we're going to treat them." The comment sparked Hardee to begin his "dirty politics" chant Two residents of District I also spoke at the meeting to criticize the board's handling of the sewer sys tem purchase proposal. "I believe it was very unfair for the board of commissioners to vote during a special meeting to consider something as important as the pur chase of Carolina Blythe when you knew that all the commissioners would not be in attendance," said Charlotte Rice. "I also object to the (on sticptmj^ Blythc's mt li>g pries of U.5 mill ion without ncgnri?ng Rice also said she opposed the purchase of ? sewer system "that it not wanted and will coat us more." Lois Ruth also spoke out about uk way the vote was niMlrfl "At a previous meeting no vote was taken because some of the com missioners were absent, yet you went ahead with this," she said. "I think it was a situation that was tak en advantage of When you vote on something so important, you should vote when all the commissioners are present" At Commissioner Jon Sanborn's suggestion, the board voted unani mously to appropriate $5,000 from the town's enterprise fund for initial legal fees and accounting costs ex pected during negotiations to pur chase Carolina Blytbe. Another $100,000 was set aside in the pro posed 1994-95 budget for that pur pose. NOW VOUR AD CAN REACH ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA FOR ONLY 25 WORDS $6 each additional word ? M. N.C. STATE WIDE NORTH CAROLINA OVER 120 NEWSPAPERS (For more information, call this newspaper or...) SIMPLY FILL OUT THIS FORM AND SEND WITH YOUR CHECK. (No Phone Orders. Larger order forms are available from this newspaper.) Name Address .Zip. 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