Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 95, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 December 1981 — Page 4
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 30,1981
Judge allows potential Atlanta jurors to go home for weekend
c. 1981 Atlanta Constitution ATLANTA Twenty-four persons who have qualified as potential jurors for the trial of accused murderer Wayne B. Williams were freed Tuesday from courtroom service until next Monday, verifying predictions that final jury selection for
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Williams’ double murder trial will not be completed this week. The 16 whites and eight blacks murmured their appreciation when Fulton County Superior Court Judge Clarence Cooper told them they could spend New Year’s at home with their families, rather than be
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sequestered in a hotel room. “Thank you much,” one potential juror yelled out. The 24 will be joined by a group of 36 potential jurors to be chosen during the next several days, forming a total panel of 60. Prosecutors and defense attorneys ultimately will choose
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12 jurors and four alternates from the group of 60. Williams, 23, has been indicted on charges of murdering 21-year-old Jimmy Ray Payne and 27-year-old Nathaniel Cater. They were two of the most recent of 28 young Atlanta blacks slain during a two-year
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period. Police theorize that Williams may have been responsible for several more slayings. Williams has maintained his innocence. Pretrial publicity appeared to play a larger role in jury selection Tuesday than on Monday, the opening day. Seven persons were excused Tuesday because they said they had formed opinions of Williams’ guilt or innocence. Three were excused for personal biases Monday. Cooper excused 13 potential jurors Tuesday for medical reasons or other hardships that would preclude them from ser-
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U.S. eyes 5-cent gasoline tax hike
(c) 1981 The Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis has received high-level Reagan administration approval to campaign for a 5-cent-a-gallon increase in the federal excise tax on gasoline, now set at 4 cents a gallon. Although the Reagan administration has not formally endorsed the proposal, and may eventually kill it, a Department of Transportation spokesman said Monday that Lewis was authorized to try to mobilize congressional and interestgroup support for the measure. Lewis was empowered to do so last week by the president’s cabinet council on economic affairs, chaired by Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan, according to Tom Blank, the DOT spokesman. Lewis will “test the waters to
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ving during the trial, projected to last a minimum of six weeks. He excused 16 for the same reasons Monday. All who were excused Tuesday because of personal biases said they had followed the case in the news media and had discussed it with their friends. “If Ole Wayne was sittin’ where you are and you were sittin’ where Wayne is, you wouldn’t feel very good about it, would you?” Binder asked a mechanic from College Park who had told him he had had negative discussions about Williams with his friends.
see if a consensus can be achieved,” Blank said. A senior White House aide, Craig L. Fuller, said Lewis had been asked by the cabinet council “to see what the mood was in Congress and other places” regarding the tax hike. Among those agreeing to Lewis’s efforts was Secretary Regan, the administration’s chief spokesman on tax matters, said Fuller, who was with the vacationing President Reagan in California. But the aide noted that two other top presidential advisers, chief of staff James A. Baker 111 and White House counsel Edwin Meese 111, did not attend the cabinet council meeting last week and may not have signed off on Lewis’s lobbying activities. Without Baker’s and Meese’s support, the aide said, the
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“No, sir, I wouldn’t,” the man replied. He was excused from service. As he had Monday, Cooper asked the new panel of 48 potential jurors 70 general questions, including whether they knew anyone on the police special task force investigating Atlanta’s string of child slayings, and whether they had any law enforcement or chemistry training. Scientific evidence is expected to be a large part of the state’s case against Williams. Potential jurors are asked to review a list of some 550 prosecution witnesses to see if they knew anyone on the list. At
Lewis campaign cannot necessarily be said to have the imprimatur of the White House. Because President Reagan has consistently disavowed new taxes next year, DOT officials are promoting the gas hike as a so-called “user fee” in hopes of making it more palatable. In connection with highways, such a fee in the form of the gas tax is imposed on those who use the system to pay for road construction and maintenance. If Lewis succeeds in pushing the proposal through Congress, the federal tax on gasoline, pegged at 4 cents a gallon since 1959, would more than double to 9 cents a gallon. The proposal would funnel 4 cents of the increase into the financially strapped highway trust fund, the traditional beneficiary of gasoline tax
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least 19 said they knew one or more of the witnesses. At the current rate, jury selection should be completed by the middle of next week. While the racial makeup of the potential jury pool shifted toward a majority of blacks, Binder continued to ask most of the white prospective jurors if they were prejudiced against blacks. Monday’s potential juror panel was 60 percent white. Tuesday’s panel was 65-percent black and that percentage increased to 75 percent when seven white jurors were excused.
revenues. One cent of the increase would be marked for mass transit projects, such as purchasing or rehabilitating buses and subway construction. Under current plans, none of the mass transportation money, however, would be used to continue federal operating subsidies, which the administration is phasing out. DOT officials estimate that every 1 cent increase in the gas tax generates $1 billion in new revenues annually. Thus the 5 cent hike, under the Lewis proposal, would mean $4 billion for highways and $1 billion for mass transit. Blank said the tax hike proposal was “well received” by the White House officials who reviewed it with Lewis last Tuesday.
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