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2 Thursday, April 19, 2001 Campus Calendar Today 4 p.m. - The annual ,TA Appreciation Barbecue has joined with Spring Fest to become an entire afternoon of fun for the whole family! Graduate and professional students are welcome to bring their families. The Spring Fest aspect of the event will feature great entertainment with performances including music, dance and comedy. It will also include lots of great activities like an obstacle course, face painting, crafts, etc. The 4th Annual TA Appreciation Barbecue will have its usual free barbe cue and free T-shirts. Baked ziti will be offered as a vegan option. The event will take place on Polk Place until 9 p.m. 7 p.m. - The Campaign to End the Death Penalty will hold “Close to Death,” a forum on crime, punish- Are you suffering from allergies? 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We m^Whims jSsfr# Cards & Gifts _ 122 East Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC 942-2516 Gifts for any occasion! &raduatic)fl Celebration? \Ch. ft Upwy </%/ fyiA&uy favdtf arid ©vtd©©r dirtirig i?3~??33 ment and the death penalty. The event features Darby Tillis, for mer death-row inmate who was later proven innocent and released; Rose Clark, sister of N.C. death-row inmate; and the sister of a murder victim. The forum will be held in 05 Mitchell Hall and is free and open to the public. Friday 3 p.m. - Sign up in the Pit all week (until teams are full) for the Unity Games, a field day encouraging interaction between diverse com munities on UNC’s campus, on Carmichael Field. Uhc Baily ear Hrrl Thursday, April 19,2001 Volume 109, Issue 34 P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill. NC 27515 Matt Dees. Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features. Sports, 962-0245 From Page One ACC From Page 1 the best tennis player, Mejia said: Ursula, the evil octopus from The Little Mermaid. “I guess she would be the best because she has so many arms,” Mejia said. “She would be able to hold lots of rackets.” Katelyn Hoffman, UNC’s freshman lacrosse goalie, will make her own dreams come true this weekend by mak ing her third start of the season. Favorite characters? Pluto and Gus, the fat mouse from Cinderella. Character that would make the best lacrosse player? “I think Goofy because he’s tall,” Hoffman said. Ah, yes. Goofy. RAND From Page 1 she has been working on the leadership for months, so far she has not been suc cessful. She said the leadership is the key. “If they can be persuaded, the bill might be able to move,” Kinnaird said. As pro tem, Basnight appoints chair men of committees and holds influence over the largely Democratic Senate. Payne added that this year is different from 1999, when a similar bill was pigeonholed in a Senate committee. “We’ve been doing e-mails, phone calls and also petition drives in commu nities to show that people outside of the university care about the issue as well,” FRANKLIN STREET CYCLES chapel hill, nc ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ rf"”' “"-n j Trek-Specialized-Ellsworth ■ Colnago-Airborne-Litespeed j DK-Hoffman-Standard Complete Lines of Mountain, Road, | Triathlon, BMX, and Urban Assault Bikes j ■ FRANKLIN STREET CYeiES Ckipel kill, ******* 210 W. Franklin Street 929-0213 ■ I Jl 210 W. 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The Sports Editor can be reached at sports@unc.edu. he said. “We’ve honed our argument better to respond to objections raised in the past, and I think Student Day at the Capitol showed legislators how much students care about this issue.” Student Day at the Capitol was an event where dozens of students congre gated in front of the General Assembly building on Feb. 20 to lobby for the issues. Both versions of the student vote bill were proposed on that day. Although Rand has not moved Kinnaird’s bill out of the Rules Committee since the event, Kinnaird and Payne plan to press on. Kinnaird said, “We are in the same situation we were in (for 1999), but we’ll keep trying.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. COMMUNITY From Page 1 tor for state Judicial District 15-B, which includes Orange and Chatham coun ties. “We emphasize a treatment disposi tion rather than a punishment disposi tion, but we use the leverage of the court to ensure that someone remains engaged in the treatment process,” she said. Orange County has held community resource court officially since May 2000, when it was created under the guidance of Orange County District Judge Joseph Buckner. The court is held twice monthly - once in Chapel Hill and once in Hillsborough -and is staffed primarily by attorneys and judges who have train ing in or knowledge of mental illness treatment. As of January 2001, more than 60 people had come through the court, Lamoureaux said. And the number of cases is increas ing. Almost 20 cases were on the dock et for the court’s April session in Chapel Hill. The district attorney’s office sends cases to the court, but private attorneys, judges and people within the mental health community can recommend cases for the special court, said D.C. Rhyne, a case manager at the OPC Northside Clinic and OPC’s liaison to the court. In community resource court, offenders do not enter a plea, said Assistant Public Defender Timothy Cole. “A person enters an admission of responsibility as opposed to a formal plea,” he said. “And instead of having a trial, the prosecutor defers the process.” Offers NEW! Scentchips candles simmer pots • tea lights • gift packs $2 off any sl7 or more purchase 3 Miles from Campus* 15-501 S. S Smith Level Road OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK QJhp Bail}) (Ear After a deferred prosecution is' agreed on, “the court determines, along with myself and other people from the treatment community, what that per son’s needs may be,” Rhyne said. The court then sets conditions the offender must meet that commonly include counseling, alcohol or drug screening and an agreement by the defendant to stay out of trouble. The defendant must meet the condi tions of the court for a set period of time. After that, the state can dismiss the charges. “It’s mosdy a three-month deferral of prosecution right now,” Lamoureaux said. “But I think we’re probably going to propose, at the minimum, six months, with a longer after-care peri od.” Lamoureaux said it is too soon in the process to determine whether the com munity resource court had been effec tive in rehabilitating defendants. The court has been successful in terms of the number of cases dismissed because defendants followed the condi tions of the court, she said. “But if you’re looking at long-term goals such as people remaining in treat ment, not reoffending and reaching sta bility, it’s a little too early to tell.” Some offenders have returned to. community resource court, said Glen. Veit, a Hillsborough-based attorney who sometimes represents defendants in the court. “In my experience, the kind of peo ple we’re dealing with that have serious mental health problems are going to continue to have serious mental health problems,” Veit said. But the value of the court is not diminished by their return, he said. , “This court is quite wonderful,”. Devine said. “What it does is bring to. bear the community’s resources to help people who are willing to own mental illness or substance abuse.” DeVine said she is sympathetic to the struggles of the people who come to community resource court, in part because a person close to her suffers from mental illness. “We have no idea what some people. go through just for shelter from the storm, let alone for a moment’s peace,” she said. “The whole point of the court is that as awareness in the community broadens, we have this resource avail able.” For Kenny Sigmon, the message seemed clear. Looking in the direction of public defender Cole, Sigmon said, “Tim just wants to know that I’m staying out of trouble.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. TRIALS From Page 1 said, because another person was ini tially charged with the crimes. Evidence had to be presented to clear the other individual before Pratt could be arrest ed, which took about 90 days from the time the crime was committed. But Pratt’s trial has had delays of its own. He was originally in custody in Nash Correctional Institute, a closed-custody facility about 90 miles from Hillsborough, which made it difficult for the defense to talk to him, Fox said. In addition, his attor ney changed employment during the course of the investigation. Fox also said that because the state made a motion for Pratt to be examined by state psychiatrists as a result of his intent to plead insanity, there was a delay in transferring his medical records from Dorothea Dix Hospital. These records then needed to be examined by the defense’s psychiatrist. Another delay was caused by the wit nesses being out of state, he said. “It’s a combination of things that don’t normally happen,” Fox said. After spending more than two years in jail, ftatt is finally scheduled to appear in court April 24 for a compe tency hearing to determine his mental status, officials said. Not only has Pratt displayed the need for rapid case disposition, the victims of the crimes and their families depend on it for closure. “Victims of a crime can be very; unhappy if cases are not tried in a. prompt manner,” Farb said. “Resolution brings finality.” Delayed case dispositions can also jeopardize convictions, Farb said, which is unfortunate for the victims and the rest of society. “You could potentially lose your wit ness and your defense if they (the sus pects) are gone a long time,” Farb said.! Speed has also been known to be a' factor in causing district attorneys to. plea bargain rather than go to trial, Superior Court Clerk Joan Terry said. “It all depends on the case, what kind, the witnesses and the victims, who may want to get it over with quicker," Terry said. But Farb said plea bargaining occurs when defendants admit to being guilty or the state offers them a lesser plea. Both Farb and Terry agree that plea bargaining is necessary. “If everyone pled ‘not guilty’ and there were no plea bargains, there is no way we ■ could ever keep afloat,” Terry said. The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu.
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