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San Diego, CA. (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir . S. 341,840) AUG .1 - 1989

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New dean of USD law school tely supports abortion By nn 1\1bullt! Edueation Wrtltr T HE l ~l\'ERSl'f ' of San Diego law chool's new (! n outspoken f mmist who ys he believes strong• ly m wom n's right to abortion and the Equ 1 Rights Am ndment. USD school and becoming one of 11 female Jaw dean· in the United States. She also plans to teach a course this fall in civil procedure. As dean, she succeeds Shel- don Krantz, who resigned last year but re- mains on the faculty.

· Thursday, August 3, 1989 L cas: '{riple-murderer is impassive wheirdeath sentence is handed down

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Lucas, was altered a week ago Mon- day when a male Juror was replaced by a female juror for what Hammes said was "legal cause." Williams de- clined to say why the unidentified juror was replaced, as did defense attorneys Alex Landon and Steven E. Feldman. Feldman, however, said defense motions for a new trial will raise legal issues raised and debated prior to and during the trial. "Some of the activities of the past two weeks will be addressed,'' Feld- man said, in reference to the replace- ment of the juror and other issues that were heard behind closed doors. The San Diego Union and The Tri- bune sought to gain access to the records covering the closed-door ses- sions and to gain access to all hear- ings, but were denied by Hammes. The newspapers have petitioned the 4th District Court of Appeal to order Hammes to give the media access to records and transcripts of the pro- ceedings. Williams said the length of deliber- ations caused him anxious moments. "I'm gratified the jury chose the penalty they did," he said. "They were obviously a conscientious group of people, very concerned about the penalty they chose and 1 think they chose the right on See Lucas

father of Anoe Swanke, for reaction were unsuccessful late yesterday. While the jury convicted Lucas of three murders and one attempted murder, it was unable to reach ver- dicts in connection with the Oct. 23, 1984, slayings of Rhonda Strang, 23, and Amber Fisher, a 3-year-old girl Strang was baby-sitting in her Lake- side home. Lucas was found not guilty of the Dec. 8, 1981, murder of real estate agent Gayle Roberta Gar- cia, 29, who was found slain in a Spring Valley home she was sched- uled to show a prospective buyer. Deputy district attorney Daniel T. Williams, who prosecuted the case with deputy district attorney George W. Clarke, said he would confer with District Attorney Edwin L. Miller Jr. before deciding whether to prosecute Lucas again for the Strang-Fisher murders. Becky Fisher, an aunt of Amber Fisher, attended the trial from its in- ception. Although disappointed a ver- dict was not reached in the murder of her niece, Fisher said the jury's decision calling for Lucas' death was "the right decision. We couldn't ask for more." While the verdict by the jury was rendered after seven days, it was a 13-day ordeal of waiting for Lucas and his family, and the families of victims. The original jury, which convicted

Continued from A-1 remanded Lucas to custody without bail pending a Sept. 19 sentencing, when she is expected to hear defense motions for a new trial or a motion to set aside the jury's decisions. Michael Jacobs, husband and fa. tber of two of Lucas' victims, said the verdict is what he expected. "' feel he's getting what he de- serves," Jacobs said outside the courtroom. "I feel no compassion for David Lucas at all. He didn't have any for my wife and my child." Joseph Masewicz of Riverside ech- oed his brother-in-law's feelings. "Frankly, I think the death penalty is too good for him,'' Masewicz said in a telephone interview. "I'm really bitter about the whole thing. I took offense at the defense's depiction of my sister, demeaning her name. "He should be taken out right now. 1 think the death penalty is too light. l went to clean up the mess at the house ail.er the murders. It was worse than anything I saw in Viet- nam. "There is no doubt in our family's mind that he is guilty. We're not confused like bis family is." Masewicz said it was bad enough having to live through 1979, but then the wounds were reopened with the trial. Efforts to reach Dr. John Swanke,

In her first in-person interview since she was appointed to the post in April, Strachan talked about women, Watergate and the Southern California lifestyle. Since 1973, Strachan has taught on the law faculty at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, a city dominated by the Mormon Church She described the city as a theocra- P/ease ee DEAN: A-6, Col.,

How ver, the d an. Kristine Strachan, 45, 1d sh plans to keep her abortion view~ und r wraps at times when he is repre ent- 1ng th Roman Catholic umv rsity. Strachan (pronounc trawn) has been teaching la" at the University of Utah She as m San Diego briefly this week before taking over th deanship of the 1,100-student

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Kristine Strachan, new dean of USD's law school, will keep her feminist views out of her public role

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David Allen Lucas In photo during tnal ~1 Lucas given death for 3 murders By Mitch Himaka Slaff Writer David Allen Lucas, one-time altar boy who was convicted in what pro- secutors called the county's "most brutal series of murders," was con- demned to die in the state's gas chamber yesterday for ree throat- slashing deaths. A Superior Court Jury of seven women and five men rendered its recommendation to Judge Laura p, Hammes in its seventh day of deli)>. erat1ons. The tall, blond, 34-year-old former Casa de Oro carpet cleaner showed no emotion as court clerk Jim Schneider read the words. ''We the jury ... determme the penalty shall be death." Lucas' mother Patricia Katzen- maier, wept softly as she heard the verdict. As she left the courtroom she said to her son: . "I love you, David. I know you're maocent." She and her daughter, Catherine McEvoy, were quickly led out of the courtroom by defense-team person- nel and down the courthouse hallway to escape the television cameras. Lucas was convicted June 21 of first-degree murder in the May 4 1979, death of Suzanne Camill~ Jacobs, 31, and her son Colin Michael !acobs, 3; and, f:be Nov. 20, 1984, slay- mg of Umvers1ty of San Diego stu- dent Anne Clttherine Swanke, 22. He was also found guilty of attemptini:; to murder Jodie Santiago Robertson 35, of Seattle on June 9, 1984. • The jury decided that since Lucas committed mul\iiJle murders be was eligible for the ueath penalty. Hammes commended the jury for "making the most difficult decision any jury is called UpPn to make" and See Lucas on Page A-8 7 Sant~ Maria, CA ./

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an Diego could solve much of its sewage woes with what be calls '·point of origin" water reclamation - treatment plants linked to major housing or commercial developments that use treated water for such things as irri· gating golf courses. An example is in the Jurupa Dis- trict near Riverside, where a treat- ment plant is next to a housing devel- opment. All the effluent from the de- velopment is used to irrigate an 18· bole golf course that initially used drinking water for irrigation. The conference also will be at Na- tional Umversity, starting at 8 a.m. • • • HINTS Rep. Bill Lowery, R-San Diego, won language in the House foreign operations appropriations bill e!)couraging Mexico to partic1• pate uilding a U.S.-Mexican sew-

The bill, which has passed the House, urges Mexico "to participate with the United States in the con- struction of a joint international treatment plant to alleviate the problem of renegade flows of raw sewage from Tijuana into San Diego." • • • MOVING - Sheldon Krantz, for- mer dean of the lhiiversitYJ)f San Diel(o Law ~ool, is the new v·ce presiaeiitof Investigative Group Inc., a Washington, D.C., company that does financial investigations for law firms and corporations. For the last year, Krantz has been writing a book titled "The Law Busi- ness: The Legal Profession in Transi- ::::;;It will be p,bli>hol by ?

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ES - Hunter will host conferences in San Diego next week on drugs and the latest technology for reclaiming water. On Monday, the area's drugs prob- lems will be discussed in a session that begms at 9 a.m at. at1onal Uni• versity. Officials from the Drug Enforce- ment Administration, FBI, Customs Service and Border Patrol are among the scheduled participants. The following day, Hunter will take up the reclamation issue. Hunt- er, an advocate of reclaiming the 8 rn1llion to 10 rrulhon gallons of sew- age that flows daily over the border

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"~hat was going through my mind society,_we shoul_d kill anyone,'' Feld- (durmg the wait) was that they were man ~1d. He said the case has been going to make a very careful deci- very difficult, not only for his client's sion and not a snap judgment. f~!IY but also for the families of the "As I told the jury in my closing victims. . argument, Lucas' behavior clearly Landon said the whole case has called for the death penalty. If we been a "terrible tragedy, which, un- don't accept this, we should abolish fortunately, we perpetuate with this the death penalty." type of decision. Everyone is victim- Landon and Feldman both ex- ized by this type of situation." pressed disappointment over the jury's decision to execute Lucas.

Searching for the root of contemporary evil Are people today worse than in the past? Some say yes ... and no

"I'm just glad it's over,'' said Mi- chael Jacobs. "I could see no other verdict. We've had to draw support from each other. There were many victims in this case. We'll live with this for a long, long time after we leave the courthouse." Jurors were led away out a back corridor of the courtroom to avoid the news media. Two jurors were en- countered in chance meetings on the street but walked away under escort by court bailiffs, refusing to say a word. Other jurors were seen getting into a marshal's van to be driven to their cars parked elsewhere. Hammes lifted her admonition to them against discussing the case with anyone, but cautioned them that if they chose to speak to anyone, they should be prepared to defend their statements in court if called upon at any future court bearing.

Less obvious are the little evils, the acts without conscience with which so many Americans seem to be filling their lives. University presidents embez- zle funds or lie about their cre- dentials. Record numbers of high school students cheat on tests, while their parents do the same on income taxes, job resumes or expense accounts. Pentagon whistle-blowers are penalized. Athletes win with steriods. A baby-food company sells water and sugar instead of apple juice. When it comes to treading the stony path of righteousness, the morally slippery route seems to be the way to go. Can it be that evil is on the rise in 20th century America? Yes. And no. The root of evil People who have thought about the subject say that evil, at its roots, stems from the unwill- ingness - or inability to make a moral choice for the good of others at the expense of one's own lower instincts. "Ultimately, the well-formed human conscience is the final ar- biter of good and e ·1," said Fa- ther Ronald Pachence, director of the Institute for Christian Mjnis- tries at the University of San Di- ego. In this regm d, lie believes, people are no worse than they've ever been. But, say the same experts, we live in a culture that increasing- ly does not support moral choice. In fact, in many ways, it does the opposite. "What i~ different is

"Tho only th111g nl'C(•.ss11ry for the tnuruph of evil is for good men to do 11oth111g." Edmund Burke By ZENIA CLEIGH "$' Copley News Service T o he d the news these days, one might conclude that un upright heart and a clean conscience have fallen upon bitter 011 in the shifting moral climate of the land. All around u there s1•ems to be an ugly tide of dishonesty, violence and 8Plfishness, the sense that there 1 little anymore we can trust Syndicalt.'d columnist George Will put an old-fashioned name to it when 11 band of youths raped and beat a Central Park jogger into fermanent bram d11mage in Apn for fun. Evil The ev1dl•nce mounL, up. • At it mo t obvious, we see the smug, disgusting face of Sa- tanic evil. Storie~ of babies being bred for human sacrifice were re- cently told to the State Child AbUSl' l'ommis 10r and authori- ties sny cases of r1 ual abuse are more common th n ever be- lieved • We see the petty, deliberate, vengefulness of evil. A prostitute with AIDS goPs to jail in Wash- ington, D.C. for willingly spread- ing the d1 l•a e. Two California teen ,agcrs are accused of hack- ing a man to death because the man's wife bribed them with sex, drug and the promise of money al\d a car

"I'm just one human being," Lan-· don saio. "I was hoping the jury would space bis life. For me person- ally, it was very disappointing." Landon said the length of delibera- tions did cause him concern as time slipped by. "Obviously, the pressure built up," he said. "It was not a time when you can focus on anything." Landon declined to speculate how the jury change might have affected the outcome, if at all. However, like Feldman, Landon hinted that the de- cision to replace the male juror in midstream will be addressed in de- fense motions for ~-.iew trial. Asked bow Lucas was taking the verdlct, Landon said his client was prepared for whatever the jury de- cided Feldman said the· death penalty is not necessary to punish anyone.

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versity, lists a string of forces eroding inruvidual standards to- day: "We have a country where the family structure is fragmenting and the values we express tend See EVI on B6

the means at our djsposal to un- leash the power of evil. We have many more means now," said Pachence. Lawrence Baron, director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies at San Diego State_Uni-

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Al.ONG. .BUSINESS ROW Janie~ Randall Davis is the new marketing manager at O.P.T.I.O.N. Care, a homecare I.V. and nutrition service in Ar- royo Grande. She once worked as · director of development at Ar- royo Grande Community...._ Ho~pi- tal. • joining 0,P.T,.1.0.N., Da~s was community- aUairs di- rector at Marian Medical Center. In addition Dav is also. worke

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