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The Daily Herald Sunday, September 1 1 1 994 Charge against leader put attorney in quandry Christian group targets Hatch SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The conservativ Christian Action Network is campaigning against Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch who is listed atop the group's "Hall of Shame." The private lobbying group based in Virginia also has made Hatch the focus of its new "Restore America Home Lobbyist Kit," which it sells for $36.50. "We wanted to target people who didn't live up to what we felt people's expectations -were," said Christian Action Network (CAN) spokesman Tom Kilgannon. He is quoted in a copyright story of Saturday's Deseret News. The group is critical of Hatch's support of the National Endowment of the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, which CAN claims promote pornographic and offensive work.

Kilgannon said Hatch also receiv ed poor ratings because of his support of the hare-crime bill and funding for AIDS research. CAN believes both measures back pro-homosexual agendas. As part of the lobbying kit, the group prepared a report card on members of Con- -gress. Delegates with the worst ratings, including Hatch, made the Hall of Shame. Only two other Republicans made CAN's Hall of Shame including House Republican Whip Newt Gin- grich, and Sen.

John-Warner, R-Va. lot. After it stopped, he sneaked up and observed the woman performing oral sex on the driver. The car pulled out. Walters followed and stopped it.

The driver, Poelman, "was scared to death," the deputy recalled. "He told me nothing had happened." The lie angered Walters. "I mean, I told him, 'I seen what I seen, and now you're telling me I Walters began reading Poelman his rights, and explained he'd be booked into jail and his car impounded. "That's when he fell apart," Walters said. "He said he didn't want to go to jail." Poelman confessed he'd given the girl $30 for oral sex.

Walters cited Poelman and released him, but booked the woman into jail because she didn't have a legitimate address. The next day, he dropped off a copy of his report and citation at the South Salt Lake city offices. Watkins didn't see them until July 26. "I was confused," he recalled. "At first I thought (Poelman) was a witness.

Then I saw he was the alleged actor. I went into a sort of shock." After two sleepless nights and long talks with his wife, father and others, Watkins called the church's regional representative, Wayne Peterson of Holladay, Poelman's immediate ecclesiastical superior. "As far as I know, it was the first he'd heard about it," Watkins said. Peterson said later that after hearing from Watkins, he referred the matter to his own superiors, whom he declined to name. The same day, Watkins called the Utah State Bar, at first posing an anonymous, hypothetical scenario based on Poelman's arrest.

Told the matter should be referred for possible discipline, he filed a formal complaint. A bar investigation is pending. "I have not spoken to anyone else about this except Mr. Watkins," said assistant disciplinary counsel Alan Barber, who would not elaborate. Oscar McConkie Poelman's law partner, said Thursday he was unaware of a bar investigation.

He said Poelman's name was "no longer on the marquee," but that he continued to practice law in the office. "The firm has taken no action on his status," McConkie said. "The firm has determined that it would not take any action under the heat of the problem." There was a time when Watkins thought he'd been spared at least some problems posed by the case. Poelman pleaded guilty to the class misdemeanor on Aug. 1, and Watkins role as prosecutor was resolved.

But that changed a month later when Poelman, accompanied by an attorney, withdrew the guilty plea, forcing Watkins to remove himself from the case due to a conflict of interest. Another attorney will be brought in to handle the case. In many ways, that is a relief to the young prosecutor. "This has been very difficult for me, personally and professionally," Watkins said. "I don't regret it.

I've been told by the regional representative and the people to whom he spoke that I did the right thing." Poelman is due back in court Sept. 19 before South Salt Lake Justice Paul Thompson, ostensibly to enter into a so-called "diversionary agreement." Such agreements allow a plea to be held in abeyance for a year. If the defendant meets several strin gent probationary requirements, the charge is dismissed and there is no criminal record. Watkins believes the publicity resulting from withdrawing the plea is a high price to pay for a clean record. "Personally, I think he got some bad legal advice," he said.

Poelman's attorney, John Walsh, refused to discuss the case and has advised his client not to talk, either. While Watkins won't be prosecuting the case, he said he will confer with the new attorney. Regardless of any diversionary agreement, Watkins will demand that Poelman enter a guilty plea and undergo the usual conditions surrounding such convictions, including an AIDS test. Poelman was excommunicated from the Mormon Church on Aug. 14 in a secret disciplinary council.

Earlier in the day, members of the Monument Park North Stake, which comprises several wards, or congregations, met in a special stake conference. Some who attended felt the meeting lacked the tone of contrition and apology they had expected. Speakers included Boyd K. Packer, acting president of the church's Council of the Twelve Apostles, who praised Poelman for having come forward. His remarks reflected an expectation of Poelman's future rebaptism.

Poelman also was allowed to speak, but his words left a sour taste with some including the young South Salt Lake prosecutor. "Because of the seriousness of this offense, after I thought about it, I felt there was a lack of contrition on Lloyd Poelman's part," Watkins said. "Others I've talked to sensed it perhaps stronger than I did." By MIKE CARTER Associated Press Writer SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah -City Attorney Kevin Watkins had a personal and ethical dilemma. It sat in his in-basket for 10 days before he realized it. But when he finally picked up and read the police report and accompanying citation, Watkins was stunned.

Even after repeated readings, he found it inconceivable that his neighbor, B. Lloyd Poelman, an esteemed attorney and Watkins' ecclesiastical leader, had been arrested for soliciting a prostitute. As a prosecutor, Watkins duty was clear. But what were his obligations as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? Or as an officer of the court and member of the Utah State Bar? Watkins, a devoted Mormon, said there hadn't been a peep about the incident in the church's Monument Park North Stake, where Poelman served as president. Watkins doubted church leaders knew.

And then there was the bar association. Poelman, 60, was a well-known and powerful partner in the firm of Kirton McConkie Poelman, the primary law firm used by the Mormon Church. Had he told his partners? Had the incident been reported to the bar's disciplinary arm? Nearly two weeks after the arrest, Watkins had heard nothing. Not from Poelman. Not from the church.

The silence, he said, left him in a terrible quandary. Wasithisjobtotell? "In my mind, this was such a serious thing," said the 33-year-old Watkins. "I agonized over it for a couple of It was the most difficult thing I've had to struggle with in my life." Watkins' dilemma began on a busy corner at half-past midnight on July 16. Waiting at the southbound stoplight at 2100 South and State Street was an unmarked sheriffs car driven by Deputy Doug Walters, a vice detective who had been cruising the county's strip clubs for violations. En route to another bar, he saw a young woman standing on the southwest corner, gesturing and yelling at passing cars.

Her name, at least on police records, was Shawna Rochelle Dunton. She was 19. Walters pulled into the parking lot of a convenience store on the corner to watch the woman. As he did, a late-model Nissan Maxima slowed. The driver leaned over, opened the passenger door and Dunton got in.

Walters followed the car around the corner into a business parking Four plead guilty in Utahn's abduction SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Four of seven men charged with kidnapping a Salt Lake City businessman have pleaded guilty to conspiracy and will help in the prosecution of the remaining defendants. Those three including Hong Kong millionaire John Wong and his nephew will stand trial Feb. 13. The others pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge Friday in exchange for the government's dismissal of kidnapping charges. The men all were indicted in the Dec.

21 kidnapping of Carl W. Martin, one of the founders of Goldcor, a Florida company that claimed it could extract gold from Costa Rican sand. Series of quakes shake Sanpete SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A series of minor earthquakes shook the eastern edge of the Sanpete Valley in central Utah for the second day in a row. The largest of the shocks, which measured 3.5 magnitude, occurred at 12:33 a.m. Saturday, said seismologist Sue Nava of the University of Utah Seismograph Station.

Two others followed at 3:23 a.m. They measured 3.3 magnitude. A sequence of small quakes also rattled through the area on Friday. A 3.4 magnitude quake was recorded at 2:06 p.m. followed by two 3.3 magnitude shocks at 2:13 p.m.

All of the earthquakes were felt by', residents of northern Sanpete Cdunty, Nava said. Because of the activity, she said, there is a one in 20, chance of a larger earthquake occurring in the next three days in the same area. "Since 1962, four other earthquakes of 3.0 magnitude or greater have occurred within 15 miles of the current activity," she said. "The largest historic earthquake in the Sanpete Valley measured 5.0 magnitude in 1876." Woman arrested for death of man LOGAN, Utah (AP) A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 75-year-old Logan man who was fatally shot nearly a year ago. Debra Brown, 37, was booked into jail Friday following 10 months of investigation.

She was an employee of Lael V. Brown, whose body was found in a bed at his Logan home on Nov. 7, 1993. The two are not related. Debra Brown had since moved to Afton, and was visiting her children in Logan when she was arrested.

She is being held without bail in the Cache County Jail. Charges are expected to be filed Monday. Cache County deputy attorney James Jenkins said he expects a bail hearing will be held within the next few days. Although a murder weapon has not been found, he said "I think we have a strong case based on circumstantial evidence." Most Utahns think air quality serious SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Most Utahns believe air pollution is a serious problem along the Wasatch Front and they want environmental regulators to strengthen cleanup efforts, according to a new poll. The latest Deseret News-KSL poll, detailed Saturday in a copyright story, found an overwhelming 86 percent of Utahns believe air pollution is a serious problem.

Half of those thought it was "very serious." percent of Utahns said they believe the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should be stricter in its efforts to clean up the air. That belief dipped to 54 percent in Cache, Box Elder and Davis counties, but jumped to 65 percent in Utah County. survey, conducted Jy Dan Jqnes Associates from Aug. 23-25, has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percent.

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