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State S, Nation
Wednesday, April 21. I M2
The Red and Black
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Stoner conviction upheld on appeal
New sunshine law signed
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov
Busbee: government in the open
George Busbee signed a
major expansion of
Georgia’s “government in
the sunshine" law
Tuesday, requiring all
government bodies to give
notice of planned meetings
and keep public records of
their decisions.
Under the new law by
Sens Roy Barnes, D-
Mableton; Franklin Sutton.
R-Norman Park; and
Pierre Howard, D-Decatur,
state or local officials who
withhold public records or
dodge open-meeting
requirements would be
subject to a $100 fine.
The law applies to all
state agencies, regulatory
boards and authorities, as
well as to all city and
county governmental
bodies, including school
boards. Barnes, the Senate
judiciary chairman, said
he had heard more com
plaints about “sunshine"
violations by school boards
than by any other type of
government body.
Public agencies would be
required to give 24 hours
notice of scheduled
meetings, which would be
open to the public, and to
keep written minutes of
their meetings. Those
minutes would be open to
public inspection at agency
offices.
The new law also spells
out that sound recordings,
photography or video
recording of meetings must
be permitted.
The 1974 "sunshine” law
— ironically, sponsored by
Busbee when he was a
House member — simply
required public bodies to
meet publicly when con
ducting official business,
except for some specially
exempt matters of legal
strategy and personal
finance. The old law did not
require advance notice or
public record-keeping or
specifically permit
cameras and tape recor
ders at public meetings.
The new law allows
emergency meetings on
less than 24 hours notice,
provided that a governing
agency gives as much
notice as possible under the
circumstances The reason
for an emergency meeting
would have to be recorded
in the board's minutes.
If a city council, county
commission or other
governing board had a
standing meeting schedule
— such as every Monday —
it would not have to issue
separate notice of every
regular meeting. If the
agency adjourned a
regular meeting and
rescheduled a hearing for
an irregular time,
however, it would have to
give 24 hours notice of the
specially called session.
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(UPI) — An Alabama ap
peals court Tuesday upheld
the conviction of self-styled
white racist J.B. Stoner for
the bombing of a black
Birmingham church in 1958
Stoner said he will press
his appeal efforts to avoid
serving 10 years in prison.
In a unanimous decision,
the Court of Criminal Ap
peals said the record con
tains “ample circumstantial
evidence" to uphold Stoner's
1980 conviction stemming
from the bombing of the
Bethel Baptist Church
during the racially tense late
1950’s.
Stoner, a Marietta lawyer
who gained a reputation for
advocating white
supremacy, said the court's
ruling was unexpected.
“The decision was a
surprise,” he said from
Marietta. "1 thought the due
process clauses of both the
Alabama and US. Con
stitutions were such that I
expected my conviction to be
reversed and also because of
trial error.”
Stoner said the court
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“I would like for them to
repent for being anti-Christ
and become Christians,
although they don't intend
to,” he said. "I still hope the
Alabama Supreme Court
will reverse (his conviction)
on account of trial errors and
various constitutional
grounds.”
Stoner said he first will ask
the Court of Criminal Ap
peals to reconsider its
decision upholding his
conviction.
No one was hurt in the
explosion that ripped
through the empty Bir
mingham church, but
Alabama law prohibits
anyone from setting off
dynamite near inhabited
buildings.
Stoner argued a three-year
statute of limitations in non
capital cases had run out,
but the appellate court said
the statute did not apply in
his case because the charge
against him originally was a
capital offense.
He also accused
authorities of trying to en
trap him, but the court
disagreed
The court said Stoner
admitted meeting un
dercover agents and
discussing the bombing of
the Bethel Church before the
bombing occurred.
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AUGUSTA (UPI) — Federal officials used a beat -up un
marked car Tuesday to quietly shuttle accused Hungarian
spy Otto Attilla Gilbert between his prison cell and a hospital
to be treated for phlebitis.
During role call Tuesday morning, a doctor at the Rich
mond County jail where Gilbert is being held without bond on
espionage charges noticed his leg was inflamed and swollen.
Gilbert was rushed to University Hospital where he was
given an anticoagulant to prevent blood clotting, then return
ed to the jail about 90 minutes later. He was reported in
satisfactory condition Tuesday afternoon.
Gilbert, arraigned Monday on charges of conspiring to ob
tain classified military documents for the Hungarian In
telligence Service, had told U S. Magistrate John Dunsmore
he had a continuing medical condition that needed attention,
but he did not elaborate.
U S. Attorney Hinton Pierce said he hoped to have his case
against the 50-year-old Gilbert, who said he received his U S
citizenship in 1962, ready Thursday to present to a federal
grand jury meeting in Savannah
Gilbert was nabbed by the FBI Saturday after he alledged-
ly paid an Army warrant officer based at nearby Fort Gor
don $4,000 for classified defense documents.
FBI Chief William Webster said in a prepared release that
the United States' safety would have been in jeopardy if the
siezed documents had been released to a hostile foreign coun
try.
A complaint filed by the government said Warrant Officer
Janos Szmolka. also born in Hungary but now a naturalized
U S. citizen, was first approached about helping the
Hungarian government while he was visiting his family in
Budapest in December 1977
However, his contact with Gilbert was the first face-to-face
meeting w'th the Hungarians he had since his transfer back
to the United States from West Germany.
Szmolka, who told his superiors about the Hungarian offer,
was based at Fort Gordon outside Augusta, not far from the
Savannah River Plant, a Pentagon-run nuclear weapons
facility just across the border in South Carolina
The FBI would not say what secret material was given
Szmolka to hand over to Gilbert, but one government official
described it as "unbelievable."
Dunsmore told Gilbert during his arraignment he would
not set bond because espionage was the "most serious crime
a person can be charged with besides murder.''