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to 51 9.75 T. 38.25 Ruling On Cop's Past Scheduled HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (AP) Site District Court "Bid" Wvrai, who abwdy KM ruled octal jvnn' hearing testimony about Joe Campos Torres' violent put, wifl rule Monday whether the jury can hear about alleged bruUttty by a former policeman accused at killing Torre). Terry Denson and Stephen Orlando are charged with murder in connection with the drowning of Torres in Buffalo Bayou. Torres body was recovered May I Witnesses haw testified they saw Denson push Torres off a 17-foot embankment into the bayou.

Former policeman Glenn Brinkmeyer, who received immunity from state prosecution in return for his testimony, testified Friday about alleged past brutality incidents involving Denson. Brinkmeyer, who testified with the jury outride the room, said he saw Denson slap arotnd subdued prisoners or IS limes during the five years they rode as partners. Brinkmeyer also said he saw Denson slap a burglary suspect and then "choke him For a little while" at the scene of an arrest. "He choked him with his hands and the burglar gasped," Brinkmeyer said. Last week, Warren ruled the jury could not hear testimony concerning alleged past acts of violence by Torres.

Donald Myers, T-ntcs' Army sergeant, said Torres was discharged last November because he was "unsuitable" and wm receiving treatment for alcohol use. Myers also said Torres "tried to pull his karate stuff" on a group of Fayetteville, N.C., policemen who had to forcibly subdue him. "Hekictedoneof them pretty bad," Myers said. Defense attorneys claimed Warren's refusal devastated their case "The ruling takes issues away from the jurors and determines for them what inferences to draw from testimony and which witnesses to'believe," defense attorney Mike Ramsey said, Ramsey and defense attorney Bob Bennett contend Torres' "propensity for violence" shows that the two officers did not intend to beat Torres. The state contends that Brinkmeyer should be allowed to tell jurors about Demon's past because Denson testified he had never slapped other prisoners.

Denson also denied telling Brinkmeyer about throwing a wino into a ravine. Brinkmeyer, however, recalled it vividly. Accompany ing Denson on this incident, Brinkmeyer testified, was officer Joseph Janish, DOW facing trial on a misdemeanor assault charge in the Torrea death. Terry and Janish had picked up a drunk," Brinkmeyer said. "They went out on Armour Drive took him out of the car.

They pushed him dawn a ravine. Not knowing it was as deep as it was, it took a long time for him to hit bottom. "They heard him hit and flashed their lights down to see him. "He wasn't moving. They came back the next night and the body was gone.

He related this as if it were fact." Sergeant Describes Conduct Of Torres HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (UP!) An Army first sergeant recalls telling Joe Campos Torres he probably would be dead or in prison within six months of being discharged last November. "I didn't miss it by much," 1st Sgt. Donald Myers told an interviewer Thursday. "When I first heard about his deata, I was told two policemen had shot him.

I wasn't surprised." Earlier, he had testified at the murder trial of two former Houston policemen accused of beating Torres May and pushing him off a 16-foot ledge into a downtown Houston bayou where he drowned. Myers courtroom testimony about Torres' past record was limited, but the Vietnam veteran who served with Torres for about a year at Ft Bragg, N.C., talked at length in the interview. "In 20 years of Army service, he was the worst one I had ever seen for becoming antagonistic and violent when he wm drunk, "Myers said. "I was sorry he seemed inable to solve his problem. No one disliked him as a person.

If it hadn't been for the drining, he would have made a good soldier." Myers said Torres apparently was not an alcoholic, but he said the 23-year-old Mexican-America) could ret hold Ms liquor. "He was particularly obnoxious and always threatening to whip somebody. He wanted everybody to think he was real rough. "One time he physically attacked a truck. A van screeched to a halt at a crosswalk and for some reason he landed a karate chop on it which broke his arm.

"Another time, some MPs brought him in for glue-sniffing. They had found him in the with a garbage can over Ms head." Myers said he recalls most vividly the occasion the 54, impound Torres confronted four members of the Fayetteville, N.C., police department. "He kicked one of they worked him owr with nightsticks. He was hurt badly enough that he went to the hospital at Ft Bragg. When he got there, he tried to whip the doctor.

They took dime out and left him to sober Myers said Torres practiced and claimed to be an expert in Tae-Kwan-Do, a Korra martial art that emphasize kicking. One morning after exercises, the sergeant said Torres "took a couple of running steps and kicked a ledge about eight feet high, I had never seen anybody do that." He said Torres apparently wanted to show what he could do, perhaps because he could not prow it. "You know, I can't think of any instance in ail his trouble! where he ever really whipped anyone." AMIGOLAND MALL PHONE 546-4551 Shop Penney's cash, layaway, catalog or charge. Open'lO a.m. p.m.

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