The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 152

Saturday May 16 1987 The Miami Herald 2B Police can make checks court says now can practice preventive law in a three-page Dickey to suppress all evidence obtained by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper when he charged a Winter Springs motorist with drunken driving in October 1985 can be erratic or screeching of State Attorney know what the law is and most importantly the police officers need to know what the law is" Dickey said at the time the driving of the vehicle led the officer to believe that the driver was impaired then there was a legal basis to stop him and after the stop probable cause was established to arrest him" on the drunken-driving charge the appeal court ruling said driver Felipe Carrillo until he committed a violation or "until he had an according to court records However the judge asked prosecutor Gilden to appeal the decision because he wanted the court to rule on whether an officer can stop a motorist because he suspects a driver is drunk "The judges need to know what the law is the prosecutors need to The order is contrary to how some Florida judges have for years interpreted the law Some judges dismiss drunken-driving charges if the officer makes a traffic stop without having witnessed a traffic violation or unless been an accident Under the ruling an officer stop a driver based upon a founded suspicion that he is driving while under the the court said Thursday opinion Such a suspicion driving weaving tires said Assistant lan Gilden of the Seminole-Brevard district "Officers now can practice preventive law enforcement" said Gilden The ruling overturned a decision by Seminole County Judge Alan DAYTONA BEACH (AP) An appeals court has overruled a judge who contended that police had no right to stop motorists they suspected of drinking or taking drugs unless the drivers had been involved in an accident or violated a law The Fifth Circuit Court of ruling was praised by several law enforcement officials who said it allows preventive police work The driver was charged with DUI but was not issued a traffic citation after the trooper saw him weave within a single lane five times within a quarter-mile Dickey said trooper Mitch Tin-dell should have followed the Charles Whiled ounsm 3 dissidents planning to remain murder among 1200 unsolved cases By STEPHEN SMITH Herald Stajf Writer Three wayward members of tourism bureau dashed off a letter Thursday saying changed their minds and want to quit after all The letter and their decision were immediately hailed as signs that the fractious Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau had begun to heal itself The letter signed by Skip Shepard Monty Trainer and Michael Cassidy appeared without notice or fanfare at the start of the executive committee meeting It was handed to Steve Nostrand chairman of the committee who read it to the group and about 60 other bureau members is our understanding that several changes are going to be made in the near future in the administration of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors said the letter written on Dupont Plaza Hotel stationery "In the event changes have been made for the betterment of the tourist industry of Dade County we will most assuredly continue our membership That represented a turnaround by the three top hotel and restaurant operators who only last month spurned the bureau Trainer the Coconut Grove restaurant owner and Shepard general manager of the Dupont had vacated their seats on the executive committee Shepard and Cassidy general manager of the Hyatt Regency had cut off dues from their hotels to the bureau None of the three attended the meeting and they have not formally rejoined Shepard said Friday they will return when they are satisfied all the changes they want have been made Those changes he said include new management of the bureau including hiring a president and possibly appointing a new chairman of the executive waiting for the Shepard said waiting for some changes in the leadership of the convention bureau personally not looking to do anything Let the executive board decide fishing right Trainer referred all calls about the letter to Metro Commissioner Sherman Winn who helped forge the compromise He believes the three will rejoin think they wrote the letter all in good Winn said have written the letter if they have the intention of coming back into the ERICA BERGER Miami Herald Staff Say the secret word To celebrate the Coconut Grove Playhouse opening Friday glasses The town got into the act with balloons posters and of "GROUCIIO: A life in Coconut Grove postal memorabilia The playhouse box guess the secret workers joined other merchants in donning Groucho nose word contest continues today with play tickets as prizes Judge to retire 4 months early Sidelights of a City: been a year since the murder Frances year of hell "The killer is out there somewhere living his normal she tells you "But my life has come to a standstill Jack was my life We were married 20 years" On May 1 1986 someone came in on Jack Wilcox apparently while he was alone I say because who knows what really happened? Only those who were there know the quick and the dead and the dead talk A killer found Jack working alone in his business office at Hoist and Rentals Co in Medley at about 5:05 and shot him once in the back of the head with a small-caliber pistol Bang That was that And Frances Wilcox was left with her memories "They went through wallet and money in the cash box There enough to take his life for Besides all they had to do was ask and Jack would have given them everything "If God had done this taken Jack away so abruptly I could handle it better But this And so Jack Wilcox 53 became a statistic He was one of 392 homicide victims in Dade County during 1986 Today the slaying remains unsolved a tough case among many tough cases in a town where murder continues to rage like an epidemic "We have little to go admits detective Ramesh Nyberg of Metro-Dade homicide "We had some leads in the beginning but they didn't work out He was well-known a businessman Now just checking everything on the Even a $10000 reward from pioneer Dade County family produced anything In the meantime the sheer frequency of killings in a murderous town clamor for their own investigative attention and new cases pile atop the old Homicide Commander Wayne McCarthy estimates there are 1200 unclosed cases backed up over many years In recent times "Cold squad has solved murders going back to 1960 never say McCarthy insists The process is aggravated by the fact that Dade County with its ongoing proliferation of drug-related slayings has perhaps the highest rate of in the nation A by police definition might typically start with a body dumped in the Everglades with no ID or sometimes even fingerprints You start by trying to identify the remains from dental work you says McCarthy it even American dental The- Jack take their turn Lacking an early break the case cools and detectives find themselves rummaging through the life style associations and business dealings in search of clues For things always what they seem The office where Jack Wilcox worked on that late afternoon for example is somewhat remote not visible from busy Okeechobee Road from where a passing impulse-robber might spot a target business Detective Nyberg: think it was a random thing It looks like he was the intended victim Someone knew where he was going and it was known that the victim had had never touched us" Frances Wilcox said saw the crime news on TV and the paper but never did we think it would happen to grandparents Henry and Bertha Braddock first came to Miami in 1894 and she was born here family arrived in the early 1920s He graduated from Miami Senior High in 1950 and his father Wilcox 77 is still in the engine rebuilding business The marriage of Frances and Jack was the second for both and between them they had six children They bought a place in Key Largo in 1983 where she lives now She drives up every week to visit grave at Woodlawn cemetery Frances Wilcox survivor talks of life and death: were going so well with us The kids were raised We thought it was our time now somebody changed all which time he heard some cases in the appeal courts Former Gov Bob Graham appointed Owen to the circuit bench in 1982 Owen said he announced his retirement well in advance partly to ensure that his replacement will be appointed before he leaves By law the nominating commission has 30 days to recommend candidates to Gov Bob Martinez Martinez then has 60 days to appoint someone Owen said he believes he can help other judges by taking on long complicated civil cases so they can maintain their regular schedules anticipate that do a lot of he said a judge is hit with one of those cases and takes three to five weeks to handle it it just knocks everything out of kilter" The commission will accept applications for vacancy until June 1 Remsen said Applicants must have been members of the Florida Bar for at least the past five years They must also be electors of the state and residents of the county term will expire Jan 3 1989 Applications are available at the Palm Beach County Bar Association 105 Narcissus Ave Remsen said Owen who was raised in Clewiston received his bachelor's degree from Tulane University in New Orleans and his law degree from the University of Florida He then practiced law for 10 years in Clewiston and nine in West Palm Beach Owen was appointed to the Fourth District Court of Appeal in December 1967 He stayed there until 1976 then returned to private practice He retired briefly during By MIKE WILSON Herald Stuff Writer Palm Beach County Circuit Judge William Owen said Friday he has decided to retire from the bench Sept 1 four months earlier than he had originally planned Owen 64 said he will accept assignments to hear cases after he is retired Retired judges often preside over cases for judges who are on vacation or who have unusually busy schedules "All done is move the date up so have a little more time this fall to tend to some personal matters" Owen said He said he and his wife plan to visit their daughters in New York and Maine and attend the wedding of a niece "We are losing a good one" said John Remsen chairman of the 15th Judicial Circuit Nominating Commission New FSU degree approved Episcopal private school forced to shut its doors Florida International University's two campuses in Dade county as requested by its president Modesto Maidique The main campus previously called the Tamiami Campus after the Tamiami Trail highway that connects Tampa and Miami will be known as the University Park Campus as it adjoins the Tropical Park The Bay Vista Campus overlooking Biscayne Bay will revert back to its old name of North Miami Campus to give it a closer identity to the City of North Miami near where it is situated Riordan said the North Miami name had been removed a number of years ago without consulting the community He said Maidique discovered the change had created a barrier when he started exploring local fund-raising historic background in the entertainment field In addition to being the alma mater of film stars Burt Reynolds and Robert Urich Florida State operates the Asolo Performing Arts Center in Sarasota where actor Tom Hulce once was a student In other action the board approved a five-year $365 million asbestos removal program It will start this year with a $67 million expenditure Over the life of the program most of the money $198 million is earmarked for the University of Florida Other campuses where more than $1 million will be spent are Florida State $105 million South Florida $24 million and Florida Atlantic University $12 million The board also unanimously approved name changes for TALLAHASSEE (AP) The first academic degree program for motion picture television and recording arts at a state-supported school in Florida was aproved by the Board of Regents Friday for Florida State University The new bachelor of fine arts program is being instituted to bolster position as the third-leading film production state behind California and New York said Pat Rior-dan a spokesman for the board need to grow our own technicians artists and construction Riordan said Having a cadre of talent in the state should help Florida attract an even greater share of movie television and recording production The Tallahassee school was selected because of its strong Church officials voted last fall to close the school in January because of losses of $4500 each month Parents however raised $12000 and kept the school open through the spring Last weekend parents and supporters hosted a last-ditch fund-raising festival in which they hoped to take in $15000 That sum would have kept the school open next fall Rainy weather kept crowds away though and the festival earned only about $6000 got rained Langford said just cut our profits in School officials notified the 10 teachers Wednesday that they won't have jobs next year Parents were mailed a letter with the news on By MIKE WILLIAMS Herald Slull Writer A drive to save financially troubled St Ambrose Episcopal School has ended in failure The 30-year-old private school at 2250 SW 31st Ave near Fort Lauderdale will close in June although the day-care center and kindergarten will continue to operate under-enrollment was just killing said Debbie Langford treasurer of the parent-teacher organization was a painful decision but it had to be St Ambrose offered grades 1-8 in addition to preschool programs and the school once had an enrollment of 180 students Enrollment in recent years declined steadily however and this year only 90 students.