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THE HARTFORD COURANT: Monday, August 4, 1980 Outspoken Crime Victims in Court' Can Influence Judge's Sentence Victim-Witness Assistance, Unit, which maintains offices in Hartford, Bridgeport and Waterbury. The units work closely with victims to familiarize them with all stages of prosecution. Charles Lexius, advocate for the Hartford Victim-Witness Unit, advises victims to tell the sentencing iudee in fendants, has no quarrel with the rule! that entitles victims to put their feel- ings on record in the pre-sentence re-, port But, he thinks victims who want to go beyond that by speaking out in court: should be put under oath and required -to submit to cross-examination by the? defense lawyer. Hartford criminal lawyer Richard R. Brown believes the oratory of victims1 "makes it difficult" for the defense.

One defense lawyer, who declined to be identified, said he and some of his associates are planning to ask the criminal justice section of the Connecti-1 cut Bar Association to review the entire 4 problem and recommend a rule that' will halt or modify the practice. Figures kept by Lexius indicate vie-, tims may become even more vocal in; the months ahead. He said in two out of every three criminal cases he's follow-' ing, the victims closely monitor all, court developments and make it their business to be in court at the time of sentencing. writing what they think the punishment should be. The attitude of the victim is also included in a pre-sentence investigation report prepared by the adult probation department The report gives the judge a rundown on the background and criminal record of the accused, details of the crime and a specific punishment recommendation.

Heiman believes strongly that the attitude of the victim has no place in the pre-sentence report "I say it is wrong for a judge to ask a victim if he or she is satisfied with the sentence imposed," he said. "This infringes on the sentencing process." Assistant public defender Carl Eisen-man, who represents many indigent de surgeons fear they will be denied equal access to new operating rooms replacing separate facilities now used by the university staff and the surgeons from the community. Three surgeons perform a kidney transplant in one of Yale-New Hospital's operating rooms, which have become the focus of a controversy at the hospital. Private practice Carter Prepares for Panel Yale, Community Doctors Argue Uses of New $60 Million Building sociation of Community Physicians says in calling members to today's meeting with St. Clair.

Although the university and community staffs were theoretically combined in the 1964 merger, they have remained largely separate with the community doctors practicing in the Memorial Unit and the university staff working across the street in the New Haven unit an arrangement which, in general, was peaceful. While a few of the medical services are consolidated, such as pediatrics and obstretrics and gynecology, most are duplicated in the separate units. Some community doctors also hold privileges to practice at St Raphael's Hospital, the only other hospital in the city. The new Yale-New Haven Hospital building will combine surgery, radiology, internal medicine and intensive care units. It will house 18 operating rooms to replace the 20 now used.

"This issue is bringing out all the frustrations, hostility and anxieties that have existed over the years between these two groups," one university doctor said. "It was inevitable we were heading for a fight over this." Continued from Page 1 Billy Carter, meanwhile, continued to give short answers diced with barnyard expressions to questions put by reporters at the Americus, motel where he breakfasts. These were more developments Sunday: A Beirut newspaper, Al Sharq, reported that Ahmed al Tabib, whom it described as an official at Libya's For eign Relations Bureau, said his country gave a $50,000 gift to President Carter via his brother. White House spokeswo- man Pat Bario said, in response, "the resident has received no gifts from ibya, either directly or through his brother." Billy Carter would not comment on a report he showed off a laudatory note he got from the president in hopes of establishing an oil deal with Libya. Billy Carter swore in describing Floyd Hudgins, a Georgia state senator who was quoted in a West Coast newspaper saying Billy had shown the note around.

Hudgins repeated that claim and another in an interview with United Press International Sunday. On Friday, the White House said the president had sent his brother a State Department cable that complimented Billy on the way he handled a 1978 trip to Libya. The president wrote in the II DYE YOUR VINYL TOP YOU CAN COLOR OF VOOR VINYL TOP. YOU DO NOT HAVE 6 IDE Continued from Page 1 The hospital was formed in 1945 i when two financially troubled commu-7 nity hospitals, Grace and New Haven, merged to become Grace-New Haven Community. Hospital.

The institution changed its name to Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1964 when it formally affili- ated with the Yale Medical School. In the transition the word "Community" 1- was dropped, but the hospital vowed to serve as both a community and teach-: ing hospital. The hospital is run by a staff of full-time, university-paid doctors who are also Yale Medical School professors. It also allows most community doctors to practice there. Most of these communi-.

ty doctors are given unpaid clinical ap- pointments at Yale so that medical stu-dents can work with them. The two groups now use separate sets of operating rooms in different build- tags, but these will be closed when the new building opens in early 1982, forc- ing the private and staff surgeons to work side by side. The fight accelerated last spring when a special task force set up by the hospital's medical board to discuss the 'community doctors' rights and role at the hospital fell apart Non-university surgeons say they fear the hospital will cut back their access to the new rooms to meet the needs of a growing universi-. ty medical staff But the latest confrontation has only served as a fulcrum for argument on a broader, more basic question that has been festering for a long time can a hospital function with two separate but equal staffs? A measure of the seriousness of the conflict Is the community doctors' hiring of St Clair to represent them. St Clair was hired by 60 of 68 community surgeons, but today he is scheduled to meet with other community physicians who are considering formal- ly joining the surgeons.

Many of the surgeons contributed $500 each to raise St Clair's initial $25,000 fee, one community doctor said. It could be a big financial help if a large number of the 400 other community doctors join. What the community doctors hope St Clair will win for them is the autonomy and equal treatment they see as guaranteed in the hospital's bylaws but which they believe has been slipping away for years. "The question for the hospital trustees is, Was it a university hospital that let the community in or was it a community hospital that let the university one community doctor said. "It's Slim down fast.

Rescue Your Summer! Continued from Page 1 ies that were inflicted by the attacker, and another to see the scars and the crippling effects first hand," he said. Until about a year ago, the appear ance cf a victim demanding his "pound of flesh" was a rarity. Today, it is com- monpiace. Tne most dramatic confrontation came in Hartford Superior Court June 18 when the mother of a slain 12-year- old Burlington girl denounced her 17 year-old killer as "an animal" and said she was appalled by the 10-year to 20-year prison sentence he received. The sentencing judge, John D.

Bren-nan, was swamped with letters of protest over that sentence. He said he had imposed the maximum since the killer was allowed by the state to plead guilty to the reduced charge of manslaughter on grounds he acted under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance. In another case, the mother of a 29-year-old Hartford man slain during a holdup appeared in court three months ago to object to the 10-year to 20-year sentence imposed on her son's killer. She said he should go to the electric chair, adding it seemed to her the defense lawyers are winning too much leniency for criminals. Joining the parade of protesting victims June 12 were relatives of a slain 19-year-old woman.

They were indignant over the five-year sentence her killer received and unsatisfied with the way the state handled the case. There have been a dozen other criminal cases in which the victims or their relatives were on hand to demand heavier punishment. Although Connecticut law compels judges to give the prosecutor and the accused an opportunity to be heard in open court at the time of sentencing, the statute is silent concerning the right of victims to make statements. This means the question of allowing a victim to speak is dicretionary with the judge. However, there is not a single known case where a judge has refused to hear a victim.

"One must remember that victims are people, and not just statistics," said State's Attorney John M. Bailey. "There is no legal duty to assist the victim of a crime, but there certainly is a moral duty." Meyers attributes the sudden rash of outspoken victims to the rising crime rate and a determination to do something about it. He said a second factor is the judicial system's Increasing sensitivity to the problems of victims and witnesses. That sensitivity appears to ba generated by a newly created agency the CPI's new OPERATIONS DATA CENTER offers you.

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The letter referred to the resignations from the task force and the hospital's Committee on the Design of Operating Rooms. Bowerman, in the same letter, summed up the trustees' frustration: "Virtually every component of this hospital is aware that there are problems and is prepared to go to work to develop solutions. The one component that has, to date, refused to cooperate and participate is your group of clients, thereby creating the paradox of having, on the one hand, made a strong demand that serious concerns be examined and, on the other, refusing to assist in their solution." At this point however, the community surgeons appear to have abandoned hopes that the task force will work and are turning to St Clair for solutions. St Clair said in return letters to Bowerman that his clients had inadequate representation on the hospital boards and demanded two-thirds of the seats. Bowerman and the trustees say that is "untenable and completely inappropriate." The community doctors also say the university doctors are building private practices which are cutting into community doctors' livelihoods.

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