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B2 The Arizona Republic Tuesday, December 26, 1995 VALLEY STATE WATCH Killer seeks execution in New Jersey IK hi' John Martini "I think that living in jail is horrible," he said. "I've been locked up seven years now, and it's been murder." 50-year term for her role in the crime. Marilyn Flax has said she wants to watch Martini's execution. In Arizona, Martini was sentenced-1 in 1992 to serve two consecutive life terms, or a minimum of 50 years without possibility of parole, after pleading guilty to murdering Teresa Dempster and David Richard Uhl, both of Phoenix. Their bodies were found in a car at a Glendale shopping plaza in 1988.

The plea was made in exchange for prosecutors' promise that they not seek the death penalty against him. Martini has not served any time frf Arizona corrections officials said, because he was returned to face the1-: Pennsylvania murder charge. That stems from the fatal shooting, i of Anna Mary "Paulie" Duvall, 62, also of Glendale, at Philadelphia' International Airport in 1977. -t Contributing to this article was staff1 writer Pam Manson. ineffective counsel or prosecutorial misconduct.

Defense lawyers are not required to make such appeals, Zegas said. Martini refused to sign papers authorizing the public defenders to proceed. Martini will get no opposition from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, which tried him for the 1989 murder of Fair Lawn businessman Irving Flax. Martini abducted Flax as he was leaving his home in 1989. Martini then called Flax's wife, Marilyn, and demanded $100,000.

He shot Flax three times in the back of the head and left his body in a car at the Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus. After making a $25,000 pickup, Martini initially eluded a police dragnet, but was later arrested. It was a "pure crime of opportunity," Sciacca said, with no revenge or payback in mind. i Martini's girlfriend is serving a KILLER from page Bl right to die, but the issue has not arisen in New Jersey since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1982. In Arizona, killer John Brewer successfully fought to be executed for the 1987 strangulation of his pregnant girlfriend in Flagstaff.

In 1993, he became the first inmate in the state to die by lethal injection after a marathon of futile last-minute appeals filed by his mother and her lawyers, who argued that he was mentally incompetent and had a death wish resulting from a personality disorder. There now are 10 inmates on New Jersey's death row. Martini; although he is incarcerated in Pennsylvania, is the only one to have a death warrant sighed. The last state execution was in 1963, by electrocution. The new law decrees lethal injection.

Martini's mandatory appeal to the state Supreme Court failed, as did his "proportionality" appeal, which is Driver killed as truck slams into wall at mine near Tucson A dump-truck driver was killed early Christmas morning when he was crushed by his vehicle in an accident at the Oracle Ridge Mine, about 15 rniles north of Tucson. Arthur Owen Koontz, 41, of San Manuel, was thrown from the cab of the 10-ton truck and run over when the vehicle collided with a wall at the mine, law-enforcement officials said. Phone line turns up heat on DUI suspects TUCSON Police agencies are heating up the cool holiday season for nearly 60 fugitive drunken-driving suspects. A telephone hotline, which tipsters can call to help officers nab the suspects, is part of an annual holiday DUI sweep that started last week, when the names, pictures and descriptions of the 12 most hard-to-find fugitive suspects were published in the Tucson Citizen and the Arizona Daily Star. All the suspects are named in arrest warrants.

After the ads appeared, the first of the suspects was picked up Wednesday morning by the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team, a multiagency team administered by the Pima County Sheriffs Department, said Deputy James G. Ogden, a department spokesman. The automated telephone hotline tape tells callers what information is needed if they're turning in a suspect. It also tells suspects who call what they need to do to turn themselves in. Hotline callers do not have to give their names, but the calls are recorded and followed up on by fugitive-strike-team officers.

Celebrating basic values: Kwanzaa rites begin today CELEBRATING, from page Bl we share in our she said. "There are a lot of people out there who have no connection to their culture and heritage, who are looking for something to help guide them," she said. "Kwanzaa does just that." Scott, 36, is a New York native who first celebrated Kwanzaa last year. She is learning about Kwanzaa's rituals from a book given to her by a Hispanic co-worker. Household fights leave 2 wounded in Valley organizing earlier and ask for more help.

"What we want to do is get a sort of community calendar together shows what ceremonies are going on in the different areas," she said. "That way, people can pick and choose and i visit other communities, learn differ ent things. "It's quite an undertaking, since the African-American community is so 4 spread out all over the Valley, but it's not impossible for two or three people who are determined," she said, adding with a laugh, "Any takers?" know what's going on in Phoenix, but no one knows what the others are doing." Davis tried to spread the message beyond Mesa's borders this year, but she ran into a scheduling snafu. "I thought our agreement with the center had run out, so I started making plans in other parts of the Valley," Davis said. "When we got word that we still would be.

at. the center, I had to cancel most of the other ceremonies." Next year, Kwanzaa's 30th anniversary, she said she would start A 7 1SI A Newspapers, laoHen PAnnniif ML Business Join Arizona Central 'Ilia STARKEY HEARING AIDS the online revolution here. AII-ln-The-Ear Hearing Aids Custom Built To Your Loss Starkey Laboratories Built President Reagan's Hearing Aid, Why Not Have Them Build Yours? OW STARKEY CE-8 $C7O50 LUTT Mfr. Sugg. Retail $895 00 9 PR TPF 1 STARKEY INTRA IV $CTO50 JrrVXVxJ-LJ Mfr.

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In the other incident, a domestic dispute in the 1300 block of East Monte Vista Road ended when a 27-year-old man shot his 66-year-old stepfather in the back, Torres said. Robert Wright and his wife were arguing, and Wright's stepson, Ken Schoonover, sided with his mother, Torres said. Schoonover ran to a bedroom and retrieved a five-shot revolver. Wright tossed some coffee toward his stepson. When he headed to the telephone to call police, Schoonover shot Wright in the back, Torres said.

Wright was reported in serious condition at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. Schoonover "was somewhat confused" by the dispute, Torres said. He was arrested and accused of aggravated assault. By Brent Whiting and Jim Walsh Staff writers It was Christmas, but there was no peace or good will as gunfire erupted at two Phoenix households. Police said the shots rang out shortly before 10 a.m., sending two men to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening wounds.

In one incident, Gabriel Diaz, 32, was shot in the 1100 block of East Durango Street after struggling with a man who showed up at his home with a handgun and a set of handcuffs. Diaz and a brother-in-law, Jesus Perez, 21, struggled with the gunman for control of the weapon, said Sgt. Mike Torres, a Phoenix police spokesman. The weapon fired, striking Diaz in the face with a bullet fragment. Torres said the gunman confronted the two men, a woman and her 4-year-old son at the residence in an apparent home-invasion robbery attempt.

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That petition examined whether Martini's sentence was typical for the crime. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his case. The Public Defender's Office wants to pursue another class of appeals, seeking "post-conviction In these proceedings, the defense can address issues that didn't arise at trial, such as newly discovered evidence, "I'm still learning," she said. "Last year, I kind of celebrated it and kept it going for a month or two before it fizzled." This year, Scott pledges to keep the Kwanzaa principles alive throughout the year.

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