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LocalState www.greenbaypressgazette.com Green Bay Press-Gazette Friday, April 29, 2005 B-5 Retired Austin Straubel director to lead Outagamie County airport Propane burner sparks shop fire BY ANDY NELESEN anelesengreenbaypressgazelte.com Paltzer had said on May 1 that he planned to ask Hoeft to take the interim job while the coun- ty searches for Mulder's sue- cessor. Paltzer said he expected the search would last two or three months. HI II vlWIi rl T7T3 It's Time. 2005 DixoirZTFTMowers Firs crews responded to a building fire Thursday at 243 High St. in downtown Wrightstown.

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Advertisement Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers GREENVILLE The retired manager of Austin Straubel International Airport will lead operations at Outagamie County's airport while the county seeks a replacement to departed director Jeff Mulder. Don Hoeft is an airport management consultant who also had served as the interim director at Outagamie County Regional Airport in 1999, prior to Mulder hiring. He will begin work at the Greenville facility next week, an aide for County Executive Toby Paltzer said Thursday. Hoeft Mulder, whose final day of work was Thursday, will begin work Tuesday as the director of Tulsa International Airport and that Oklahoma city's general-aviation airport. Hoeft's prior stint as interim director of the Greenville airport, was while he was managing the larger Green Bay-area airport.

she said of victim impact panels in prisons. "We all make mistakes in life. The ultimate apology is how you live the rest of your life." Besides the injustice to Avery, she also wonders how many other people became victims because Allen was free for several years after he assaulted her. He was eventually convicted of raping a woman in Green Bay in 1995, and was also suspected of killing a girl in North Carolina when he was in service, Beerntsen said. "I was devastated with learning to live with myself." People, including Avery, tell her the false conviction wasn't her fault.

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He beat her around the head, broke her nose and held her throat until she was unconscious. When she awoke, she crawled toward the beach, slipping in and out of consciousness from a concussion, and tried to keep her hand which she used to scratch him, and where she saw blood held up to preserve evidence. Within a three-hour period in the hospital, a female deputy interviewed her. Police zeroed in on Avery within hours, since he was a neighbor of the deputy's, and since he was on bond awaiting trial for a charge of reckless endanger-ment after allegedly trying to force a woman into his vehicle. She picked him out of eight photos and worked with a police sketch artist.

Avery was arrested that day, and she picked him out of a lineup a couple of days later. "I picked Steven Avery again. He was the only person in both the live lineup and the photo array" she said. By the time he went to trial, she had heard about his prior convictions, and was sure he was the man. Manitowoc police called her about another suspect a couple days after the attack, and it was eventually that man, Gregory Allen, who was convicted of assaulting her, through use of DNA evidence.

Police were tailing him, but hadn't checked him since the morning of her attack. After the attack, Beerntsen said she became suicidal, and felt she was worthless to her husband and children. While Avery's case went through unsuccessful appeals, she got involved in restorative justice programs, got trained as a mediator and worked with victim impact panels. "Little did I realize how much I was going to learn because of what the men shared with me," BY JOHN LEE Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers GRAND CHUTE Every day, Penny Beerntsen lives with the fact that the man she identified as the assailant who raped her 20 years ago in Two Rivers is the real victim. "I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me," she said of learning that DNA tests had cleared Steven Avery in her 1985 rape and attack after he had served 18 years of a 32-year prison sentence, largely because of identifications she made in a photo lineup and live lineup of suspects.

"The day I found out I was involved in that miscarriage of justice I wanted to die." But instead Beerntsen, who moved to Illinois eight months ago, has dedicated herself to working with victims, working in Restorative Justice programs and telling her story Thursday, she spoke to about 80 police executives at Fox Valley Technical College on the state Justice Department's recommendations for "best practices in eyewitness identification." Wisconsin Atty Gen. Peg Laut-enschlager said the session here was the first of five in the state to explain the DOJ recommendations to police. In general, the recommendations cover who should conduct a lineup, how a witness should be instructed prior to the lineup, how to best set up a lineup and obtaining a statement from the witness at the time of the lineup. Beerntsen, who has worked with justice projects in Wisconsin and is now working with one at Northwestern University said she welcomes the recommendations proposed by Lauten-schlager's department. "There are many states with many more exonerations than Wisconsin that have not responded to reform," she said.

The day she was raped in July 1985, Beerntsen was with her husband and daughter at Neshota Park in Two Rivers when she decided to go jogging. John Paul Touched the Hearts of Millions WRIGHTSTOWN A midday warehouse fire damaged a carpentry workshop on the village's east side Thursday. Fire crews were called to 243 High St. about 12:50 p.m. and found flames shooting from the roof.

The owner of the building, Peter Albers of Wrightstown, told authorities that he had left a propane heater burning inside the building while he left for a short time, said Brown County Sheriff's Lt. Keith Barth. When Albers returned, he spotted the flames, Barth said. Damages were estimated at $7,500. Crews from the Wrightstown and Greenleaf fire departments responded.

There were no injuries. The building is used as Albers' personal carpentry shop and not a business, Barth said. Woman from Police lineup tips Who should conduct a lineup? The person who conducts the lineup or photo array should not be aware of which member of the lineup or photo array is the suspect. Perhaps the most important procedural recommendation is the use of sequential lineup procedures. In this process, the eyewitness views only one lineup member and decides whether or not this is the accused before viewing another lineup member.

This procedure has been clearly demonstrated to produce fewer mistaken identifications than the more traditional simultaneous presentations of the past. How should a victim or witness be instructed prior to a lineup procedure? Eyewitnesses should be told explicitly that the person in question might not be present and therefore they should not feel obligated to make an identification. They should also be informed that the person administering the lineup does not know who the suspect is. How do you best set up a lineup or photo array? Suspects should not stand out as being different than fillers." Rather, fillers (nonsus-pects) should be carefully chosen based upon the eyewitness's earlier description of the perpetrator or based on other factors that would not draw extra attention to the suspect. You should obtain a statement as to the eyewitness's confidence.

A clear statement should be documented from the eyewitness at the time of the identification as to their confidence that this is the actual criminal. This can be done in their own words immediately following an identification. It is important that this be done prior to any feedback from officers or other witnesses connected to the event. The state Department of Justice recommends the use video andor audio taping for the lineup and the eyewitness. Taping has several powerful advantages although they present challenges, limitations and additional costs beyond what some agencies can reasonably address.

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