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THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1985 5 Morgan County tries hard to land proposed medium-security prison Man sentenced to die for killing 2 women By JUDY BRYANT CourHr-Joumal Staff Writer seeking to do away with price supports and quotas for burley tobacco, threatening Morgan County's $10 million annual income from the crop, "We see the handwriting on the wall," Wells said. "We feel the prison would be a fine asset to the community." County Judge-Executive Gene Allen said county clergymen and civic clubs are supporting the effort, and "I've not had one person come to me and complain about it." The 1984 General Assembly appropriated funds for designing the prison. The Corrections Cabinet will look at potential sites and make a recommendation to Gov. Martha Layne Collins before the 1986 General Assembly votes on its construction, Lewis said. Officials from Lyon County in Western Kentucky, Taylor County in south-central Kentucky and Bath and Morgan counties in Eastern Kentucky made formal requests for the prison during the 1984 legislative session, he said.

Other counties expressed interest "if and when" the state approves construction, Lewis said. The Morgan County chamber has hired the Preston Group of Lexington to organize its bid. Auoclatod Pros WEST LIBERTY, Ky. Many communities don't relish being prison sites, but the Morgan County Chamber of Commerce has hired a public-relations company to help it win a proposed 500-bed, medium-security state institution. "We're going after it, whole hog," Joe S.

Wells, a former chamber president, said recently. The $35 million prison would employ about 250 people and have an annual payroll of about $7 million, said Jack Lewis, state deputy corrections secretary. With the Reagan administration Fit Phot WE MAY LOOK UKE A DEPARTMENT BUT OUR PRICES GIVE US AWAY! plea bargain that prosecutors made with W. Thomas Dean, a witness who testified against White, Clooney claimed Dean, who originally was charged with murder in a separate case and with being a persistent felon, pleaded guilty to reckless homicide before White's trial in January. Dean testified during the trial that he saw White leave a West End nightclub with Ms.

Sweeney shortly before she died. Clooney claimed the jurors might not have considered Dean a credible witness if they were aware that the commonwealth's attorney's office "dropped one murder charge to get another" and that the penalties involved in the two cases differed widely. Dean received a five-year sentence as a result of the plea agreement. However, several representatives of the commonwealth's attorney's office, including First Assistant J. Michael Brown, testified yesterday that Dean's case received no special treatment Witnesses said that the case involved a shooting following an argument over gambling and that Dean might have successfully argued in court that he acted in self-defense.

Peers said jurors were told during the trial that Dean was a convicted felon, and Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Joe Gutmann said Dean would have been a prosecution witness with or without the plea agreement. Peers denied Clooney's request for a new trial. Rejecting a last-minute request for a new trial, Jefferson Circuit Judge Olga Peers yesterday sentenced Larry Lamont White to die in the electric chair for the 1983 murders of two western Louisville women. The execution is set for June 12. However, White's sentence will- automatically be appealed to the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Peers said White showed no remorse for the execution-style shootings of Yolanda Sweeney, 21, and Deborah Miles, 22, except for "a passing thought" in his statements to police. Both women were shot in- the back of the head with a weapon. Ms. Sweeney's body was found June 13, several days after she was seen leaving a West End nightclub. Ms.

Miles was found July 7 in the bedroom of her home. White, 26, was arrested after he threatened a third woman who later helped identify him as a suspect in the deaths. Following a trial in January, jurors recommended death penalty on both murder convictions. White also received a 15-year sentence yesterday for robbing Ms. Sweeney.

Peers set concurrent terms of 20 years on a burglary charge and five years for unlawful imprisonment in connection with the incident that led to White's arrest. Ray Clooney, White's attorney, claimed jurors should have been permitted to hear testimony about a a GocraD: Gessoes Larry Lamont White Execution is set Jor June 12 White did not testify during his trial or at yesterday's sentencing hearing, but he admitted the killings in several statements to police after he was arrested. According to transcripts of those conversations, White told police he left a nightclub on Grand Avenue with Ms. Sweeney on June 10 after she agreed to a prostitution date. He said he shot her after she accepted a $25 payment, but then tried to run away.

White also claimed Ms. Sweeney threatened him with a knife. White said that Ms. Miles sold drugs for him, and that he shot her July 7 in a dispute over money she owed him. Police and prosecutors say there is no evidence that either Ms.

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