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INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL, LANCASTER, PA. A-4 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1,1998 FROM PAGE ONE Hershey: Great Bear Lambert: Bail hearing LISA MICHELLE LAMBERT Continued from A-1 sten, Lamberts daughter, celebrated her sixth birthday on March 19 without her mother, who is incarcerated at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility tor Women in New Jersey. She's now missed six birthdays, Rainville said. Your honor, Easter is (in two weeks), please let Lisa go home. Rainville pleaded with Stengel to act with courage and release Lambert on bail in the face of community opposition and show that justice is supreme in Lancaster County.

The lawyer said Lambert poses no risk of flight and is no threat to the Lancaster community. Lambert did not appear in court Tuesday. Instead, Rainville presented Stengel with a sworn statement signed by Lambert. I am more than willing to submit to any form of custody in lieu of being in prison, Lambert said in the statement. I am willing to be under house arrest; wear monitoring equipment; or do whatever else the court requires.

Lambert said she will continue to fight for her freedom rather than flee. Judge Stewart Dalzell last spring into the state court record of the Lambert case. Rainville told the judge he will have more than enough evidence of misconduct from the previous testimony of police officers during the federal hearing to reach the same conclusion that Dalzell did without the unjustifiable expense of another long hearing. Dalzell overturned Lamberts murder conviction and freed her, saying police and prosecutors framed an innocent woman for Shows death. A federal appeals court, however, reversed Dal-zells ruling because Lambert came to federal court before exhausting her appeals in Pennsylvania courts.

Lambert was sent back to jail in February. Judge Stengel questioned Rainville concerning how he could make findings of fact based on the credibility of witnesses by merely reading a cold transcript. How am I to deal with credibility of witnesses on a (federal) record that now occupies two full shelves in my chambers? the judge asked Rainville. Rainville suggested to Stengel that reading the testimony of eight Lancaster County law enforcement agents alone would If I were to flee, people would say I fled because I was guilty, Lambert said. I will not have my daughter growing up being taunted by cruel people who would no doubt say her mother is a murderer.

I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison, declaring my innocence, than let that happen. At the hearing, Stengel, who convicted Lambert of first-degree murder during a nonjury trial in 1992, will decide if theres enough evidence to warrant a second trial for Lambert. He could also decide to free her unconditionally because of prosecutorial misconduct during her original trial here six years ago or he could uphold the guilty verdict. The state Supreme Court on Feb. 25 ordered the judge to hold the appeal hearing and render a decision within 120 days.

At Tuesdays court proceeding, the judge was handling outstanding legal issues that need to be resolved before the hearing can begin. Stengel made no immediate decision on Lamberts request for bail or a second issue Rainville put before him Tuesday. Rainville also asked Stengel to enter the record from Lamberts three-week federal appeal hearing before U.S. District Construction equipment is everywhere. The asphalt is torn up in many places and there is dirt, stones and dust scattered throughout the park.

However, Shearer said it will all be cleaned up and ready to handle the crowds that will start streaming in Memorial Day weekend. The Great Bear was built by Bollinger Mabillard of Switzerland, although much of it was manufactured in the United States. Between now and the opening of the ride on May 23, test runs will be made using seats loaded with sandbags. Human occupants will then follow, specifically Budgeon and a representative of Bollinger Mabillard. I have been labeled as the Chuck Yeager of Hershey Park, Budgeon joked.

The opening of the Great Bear will give Hersheypark six roller coasters, two of wood (the Wildcat and the Comet) and four of steel (the Great Bear, the Sooperdoo-perlooper, the Trailblazer and the Sidewinder). Shearer remarked that no other amusement park in the state boasts six coasters. This is by far the most unique, the most interesting, the most thrilling, the most exciting ride weve ever done, Shearer said. It's very intense, very exciting and were looking forward to opening this ride. Continued from A-1 Jeff Budgeon, the park's managing director of planning, engineering and maintenance.

But youll still instinctively pull up your feet. Two million pounds of steel and 4,500 yards of concrete, or the equivalent of 450 truckloads, went into the Great Bear. The track is supported by 217 steel piers. Some sections of the ride weigh 30,000 pounds, and a 200-ton crane with a reach of 230 feet was used to place them. The biggest challenge of this project was getting the large ride sections into place and positioning the crane properly to make the fit, said Jim Rogers of Aycock Inc.

of Hummelstown. Wickersham Construction and Engineering Inc. of Lancaster served as general contractor for the project. The interesting part about this project is that you dont often get to work on anything unique, and this is unique, David Nace of Wickersham said. There arent that many rides done in a year.

Also the time frame. Under normal circumstances, you would take six months to a year to build this, but everything has to be done in four months. Throughout the length of the ride, builders had only an eighth-of-an-inch margin of error in placing the ride sections. At present, the park looks a long way from being ready to open. prove to him that the evidence they presented to him during Lamberts trial six years ago was fabricated.

The judge wasnt swayed. Stengel said to Rainville: I think it's vital with any court charged with fact finding to hear, see and observe the witnesses. Im asked to do something very serious here and I want to do it well. To do that, I think I have to hear the witnesses. Judge Dalzell reached his decision after hearing from the witnesses and I think this court is entitled to the same thing.

Gag order: Press lawyers want it lifted Gifted: U.S. review est is a fair resolution of all issues in this case, Show said in his sworn statement. A fair resolution of all of the issues related to the tragedy of my daughters death requires the lifting of Judge Stengels order and allowing free access to the media. Nathan Siegel, a lawyer for ABC News, told the judge his order has blocked ABC from interviewing Lamberts lawyers and others to complete the production of a story on the Lambert case. Stengel suggested modifying his order to allow ABC to finish its reporting to broadcast a balanced story.

He asked Siegel to submit by Friday the names of people who have refused to be interviewed because of the gag order. ville told Stengel. Rainville said that, since Lambert is imprisoned, her lawyers need to be able to speak for her. The problem here is the cat is out of the bag, she said. For six years, the world has been told Lisa is a vicious, lying, manipulative monster.

Stengel told Rainville thats why his order limiting publicity included police investigators, potential witnesses and the Show family, along with the lawyers, so neither side could gain an unfair advantage. John Show, Laurie Shows father, joined the medias opposition to the gag order by submitting a written affidavit to the judge. In his order limiting publicity, Judge Stengel indicated his inter- who responded that everybody can speak from the witness stand, but said the purpose of his order is to limit comments to reporters outside the courtroom and on talk shows. The judge said his order was like the one that had been in place in the John DuPont murder trial in Delaware County and the one presently enforced in the case of two teenagers in Delaware accused of killing their newborn baby. Later in the hearing, Stengel scolded the media for claiming in court filings he was trying to halt reporting of the Lambert case or conceal any court proceedings in the case.

There is no interest on the part of this court in shutting down the press; that is ludicrous. To suggest there is some interest in conducting this in secret is really insulting, the judge said. It is a gross miscasting of the truth and I resent it. Christina Rainville, Lamberts attorney, supported the medias case. She said Lambert would argue all the way to the U.S.

Supreme Court, if necessary, that she cant be retried because of the extensive prosecutorial misconduct during her 1992 trial in Lancaster. I dont see a new trial happening for possibly two years, Rain Continued from A-1 he most likely would grant her a new trial. After her nonjury trial in 1992, Stengel convicted Lambert of first-degree murder for the 1991 death of 16-year-old Laurie Show. A second Lambert trial, which the judge said could possibly occur this fall or next winter, would be in front of a jury. There would be a jury drawn from this county, Stengel said, calling it shortsighted to suggest inflammatory media coverage could not prejudice a possible Lambert retrial.

Werner argued theres no support in the law for a judge to enter a gag order in the case of a criminal appeal simply because it includes the potential for a new trial at some unknown later date. Whats more, the lawyer told the judge, the case has been covered by the media for almost six years and the coverage will continue as the case proceeds through the courts. Additional publicity would have only a minimal impact on a potential pool of jurors in this case, Werner said. Suddenly, the spigot is turned off and nobody can speak, Lancaster Newspapers lawyer said. That remark agitated Stengel, Naked driver leads police on fast chase We changed school districts because I dont have time for that, she said.

My child was not going to be a young black man who was ignored because he was a good kid. Another mother said: Weve got a lot of black gifted children. The school district will not give them the opportunity to expand themselves. Desmond invited concerned parents to become active in their schools site councils groups of teachers, administrators and parents who make decisions that govern each school in the district. He also invited them to contribute to a committee that is reevaluating the districts strategic plan beginning next month.

Desmond said that in his involvement with the GAT program he has not seen discrimination based on race, but he has seen low reading competencies that need to be addressed. Thats where its all falling apart right now," he said. Schreibeis invited input. I would be glad to speak with anyone who has concerns and wants to Joan Williams, facilitator of the discussion, said the Office of Civil Rights will meet with school officials before determining if there are specific problems that need to be addressed. The district then has the option of signing an agreement with the office to remedy the problems.

The office then monitors the agreement for three years. Continued from A-1 districts total enrollment. Wolff said the review, which began Feb. 20, is not unusual. The department selects school districts each year to review.

About 30 parents attended the meeting at Bethel A.M.E. Church. School district officials, including Sue Walker, the director of curriculum and instruction, school board member Daniel Desmond and Patricia Schreibeis, director of the Gifted and Talented Program, attended and answered questions. Some parents said they were concerned about the lack of communication between the school district and parents. Others wondered why their children didnt qualify for the GAT program.

Schreibeis explained that the prograrp is offered to students in kindergarten through 12th grade who have an IQ of 130, though that is not the sole criteria for participation. Schools also consider achievement test scores and classroom performance. Students who do not qualify may participate in an unofficial program for two years to challenge them in specific subject areas before they are retested, she said. One woman said she asked a district elementary school to test her daughter for qualification in October, and it wasn't done until March. She complained that by the time the results were in, it was too late for that school year.

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She said she did not know the names of the other credit unions vying to take over the teachers credit union, and that those names are not normally disclosed. The PSECU will not take over the outstanding loans from the now defunct teachers credit union, Bullock said. The National Credit Union Administration will handle those collections. The PSECU offers more services than the teachers credit union did. The teachers credit union offered savings accounts.

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