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Georgia solons
split on abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five
of Georgia’s 10 congressmen
voted with the majority Thurs
day when the House rejected by
a vote of 193 to 172 Senate
proposed guidelines on when the
government would pay for
abortions for poor women.
Voting againt the Senate pro
posal were Reps. Doug Barnard
of Augusta, Billy Evans of Ma
con, John Flynt of Griffin. Ed
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Jenkins of Jasper and Larry
McDonald of Marietta.
Voting for the proposal were
Reps. Ronald “Bo” Ginn of
Millen, Wyche Fowler of At
lanta and Elliott Levitas of At
lanta.
Reps. Jack Brinkley of Co
lumbus and Dawson Mathis of
Albany did not vote.
All of Georgia’s congressmen
are Democrats.
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Court to rule with speed
on ‘Dawson Five’ appeal
ATLANTA (AP) - The state
Court of Appeals has promised
to rule “with dispatch” on an
appeal that is holding up trial in
the 21-month-old “Dawson
Five” murder case.
The appeals court heard ar
guments Thursday concerning
suppression of a confession
made by one of five young black
men charged with shooting a
white ranch foreman at a rural
south Georgia grocery in
January 1976.
Roosevelt Watson, 21, has ad
mitted confessing to the shoot
ing of Gordon “Bubba" Howell,
but he now denies he shot any
one and says he confessed only
after law enforcement officials
threatened to kill him.
Prosecutors admit their
strongest case is against Wat
son, who is accused of firing the
fatal bullet, and they say
charges against all five defend
ants may be dropped if they
can’t use his confession during
trial.
Assistant prosecutor Michael
Stoddard told a three-judge ap-
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Superior Court Judge Leonard
Farkas exceeded his authority
in ordering the confession sup
pressed at the end of a pretrial
hearing last summer.
Defense attorney Millard
Farmer argued that Stoddard
had no Igal basis for appealing
such a ruling. He asked the
judges to dismiss the appeal
and said “you’ve got to change
the law” to make any other rul
ing.
Superior Court Judge Walter
I. Geer had heard pretrial mo
tions last August in the case,
which has drawn national at
tention because of defense
claims that the defendants were
jailed only because they are
black.
Geer ruled on all motions ex
cept the one on suppressing the
confession, then bowed out of
the case, citing illness.
Farkas, who was brought in
from Albany to substitute for
Geer, listened to impassioned
arguments from Farmer, then
abruptly granted the motion
without reviewing any of the
previous testimony for or
against it.
Stoddard, who immediately
appealed that ruling, told the
appeals panel that he consid
ered Farkas’ action an abuse of
judicial discretion.
Farmer contended the appeal
ruling should turn on a simple
matter of law, that the appli
cable statute allows the state to
appeal some pretrial issues but
not the question of whether to
suppress a confession.
“If this appeal is dismissed,
the state is through,” he said.
“Everybody is ready to put this
case to bed; this gives them
reason to put this case to bed.”
All five defendants were kept
in the Terrell County jail for
nearly a year. Two, including
Watson, were released on bond
early this year, and the others
were released last summer.
Two of those were released on
their own recognizance the day
Farkas recessed the hearing to
await the appeals court’s rul
ing.
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GBI to receive part
of S7O-million surplus
ATLANTA (AP) - The Geor
gia Bureau of Investigation will
receive part of the state’s S7O
million surplus to expand its
cramped facilities, Gov. George
Busbee said after a tour of the
bureau.
The governor did not say how
much money he would try to get
for the GBI, but he said he
would attempt to place the bu
reau in a larger complex.
Overcrowded conditions at
the Confederate Avenue facil
ities that house both the State
Crime Laboratory and the
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Center, both sub-agencies of the
GBI, have caused some evi
dence to be discarded after a
year because of lack of space.
“We can only keep evidence
for about a year, and we’ve lost
some cases because of that,”
said Dr. Larry Howard, head
pathologist at the crime labora
tory.
GBI chief Beverly Ponder
said the agency has submitted a
budget and capital outlay re
quest for the past three or four
years to eliminate the space
problem.
He said the crime laboratory
has about 17,000 square feet for
70 employees and the crime in
formation center has only 7,000
square feet for about 100 em
ployees.
‘.‘The laboratory needs 40,000
square feet of special purpose
space for efficient operation,”
Ponder said.
He said one facility of 100,000
square feet could house the en
tire GBI. The bureau, however,
has not been housed under one
roof since it was separated from
the Department of Public
Safety in 1973.