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1 17 JI id EE (GO RI Report Thursday September 12 1996 Section A Page 2 0 c) 0 c) 0 0 A 11 Court reinstafes death penalty in ld 4 4 11 Ring Worth then drove Bolden's car to the Mexican border "Soria's planning of the murder weeks in advance and recruiting others to assist him and his only apparent motive being his desire to steal the victim's car in order to sell it for cash weigh heavily in favor of the jury's verdict" Judge Frank Maloney wrote in his majority opinion For Ed Bolden the reversal reaffirms his faith in the justice system 11 years and two months after his son was killed High School was outside the Fort Worth Boys Club where he was a lifeguard who worked with underprivileged children when he was accosted by Soria and Mike Lagunas on the night of June 28 1985 With a 22-caliber pistol aimed at his head Bolden was directed to drive his new Camaro to a secluded area near Northside Drive according to court documents and police accounts There Lagunas hit Bolden with a rock and Soria stabbed the teen in the head and neck according to court 36 on teen 0s and is serving a 45-year Soria was convicted of capital Bolden's death and given the de4t1 1 in July 1986 s---- ea) t-- the sentence was reduced to life -mi: two years ago the majority of tie -z based its opinion on Soria's lack of al: prior criminal history and the infitr- of his co-defendant The lighter sdit': would have made him eligible for 15a-i 4 011 2005 All 6 0 Charles Baird who with Judgq: Overstreet and Sam Houston Clin4 in yesterday's reversal said in hj': opinion that the reinstatement of thft penalty was a bow to public pressfire 'I I than dispassionate judicial review 4 Ed 1 grt kidnapping sentence der in penalty When prison court serious ence tence role by Judge Morris dissented written death rather EU 4 ks eip-4 4- By JOHN MORITZ Siar-Telegram Austin Bureau AUSTIN The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reinstated the death penalty yesterday for the man who killed an Arlington teen-ager 11 years ago in a scheme to steal the youth's car and sell it at the Mexican border The court's action reverses a 5-4 decision two years ago when the judges found there was insufficient evidence for jurors in the original trial to find that Juan Soria would pose a future threat to society Soria was 19 when Allen Bolden was abducted at gunpoint and stabbed in the head and neck in June 1985 But in yesterday's 6-3 decision the judges gave weight to evidence submitted during the trial that Soria planned the crime weeks in advance and enlisted an accomplice to help him carry it out The pair participated in a robbery shortly after killing the 17-year-old Bolden and leaving his body in a remote section of north Fort "Two years ago I was absolutely shocked by what the court did" said Bolden who owns an aviation company and serves on the board of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children "1 felt like the jury worked long and hard to do what they did only to have the appeals court come in and assert themselves as the 13th jury member nine years after the fact" Allen Bolden a nationally ranked swimmer who had just graduated from Lamar A The pair later picked up two teen-agers bought some beer then robbed an ice cream truck to finance their trip to the Mexican border where they planned to sell the Camaro court records said Soria was arrested near Del Rio two days later when he was stopped for speeding and the officer determined that the Camaro was stolen Lagunas pleaded guilty to aggravated DULUell uthap "It's been 10 years since Soria was victed of killing my son" he said "It finallia' looks like justice will be served" te44A IV :404 4 t022 14 Bolden disagreed Allen Bolden: Was abducted at and killed in June 1985 I Schools and juvenile justice 4i 1 i 4 4 4 it' f- i kp4 4 I 4 '1 4 4 'i 4 i 9'0 i i 4a I ''111 4: 4 4-' i i I Seminar to focus on relationship in disciplining youths Association of Tarrant County a host agency for the daylong conference "The problem of continuing the education of these young people while ensuring order and safety in the classroom is a major concern and will be addressed during this conference" Harris said The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is sponsoring the conference which was developed by the Mental Health Association the state's Youth Commission the Juvenile Probation Commission the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services and the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Law From Page I 11 State Sen Mike Moncrief D- Ifrt Worth an author of the 1993 I and its 1995 amendments said staff immediately contacted the ices of Gov George Bush and Lt Gov Bob Bullock to urge their support for a new stalking law next year The Legislature will reconvene in January "I'm confident Texas can have a stalking law" Moncrief said "All we have to do is address the court's concerns and fine-tune the law There are too many victims and families of victims who are counting on us to finish what we started" Defense attorneys who in 1993 predicted constitutional challenges to the anti-stalking law praised the court's decision "What is annoying to one person may not be annoying to another" said Port Worth attorney Mike Heiskell vice president of the Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Heiskell said other By Lou CHAPMAN Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH Last year in Tarrant County more than 7750 youths were put under the jurisdiction of the state's juvenile probation department but most continued to receive their education through public school systems It is a modern spin on an age-old relationship: discipline vs education Yet old as the relationship is it is not fully understood even by the professionals who work within it experts say Nor does the system always function in the best interests of those it is meant to serve I i 17- 1 o' The Legislature mandated a new partnership last year between public education and the juvenile system with the goal of improving the degree and quality of collaboration between the two "This conference is to talk about what the new law says you have to do what leeway the communities have and there is a great deal of leeway in the law to discuss how things have been arranged in Tarrant County and to look at what is best going to serve the kids" Harris said "Is what we have on line really going to meet their needs?" in 1983 because of vagueness especially in its definition of the terms "annoy" and "alarm" Lawmakers attempted to tighten the statute's language in 1993 But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said yesterday that the current law is in some ways broader than the previous statute The law states that a person has committed stalking if he or she "on one or more occasion engages in conduct directed specifically toward the other person including following that person that is reasonably likely to harass annoy alarm abuse torment or embarrass that person" Yesterday's decision said "The words 'annoy' and 'alarm' remain in the statute from 1983 although they are now joined by the words harass abuse torment and embarrass" Even with the additional terms the court ruled that legislators had done nothing to limit the vagueness and perhaps had even compounded the "uncertainties of meaning" The appellate case involved Raymond Edward Long of Austin who was sentenced to 180 days in jail and ordered to pay the legal costs of the woman he was found to have stalked Because of the appeals court's ruling the case was dismissed The appeals court said the First Amendment rights of Texans could be taken away by the stalking law in certain instances "For example a political protester who crosses the line and makes a threat might find himself forever barred from engaging in peaceful legitimate expression for fear of subjecting himself to punishment for stalking" the court said "The Legislature may legitimately punish the threat but it should not be permitted to hold someone's First Amendment rights forever hostage after he makes such a threat" Staff writers Carlos Illescas and Tamil Berard contributed to this report which contains material from The Associated Press Tomorrow that partnership will be the focus of a one-day seminar "What's Ahead for Texas Kids? Exploring the Partnership: Juvenile Justice Education and the Community" Although the conference is free and participants can register at the door seating is limited and advance registration is encouraged Harris said II The program is free and open to the public with panelists coming from Child Protective Services the juvenile court bench local school boards counseling programs and the Legislature "Behavior problems are at an all-time high and all sectors of society are feeling the effects" said Laura lee Harris executive director of the Mental The conference will be from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm at the state's regional Education Service Center 3001 North Freeway in Fort Worth For information call the Mental Health Association at 335-5405 criminal charges such as assault by threat or terroristic threat adequately cover the crime of stalking The stalking cases tried in Tarrant County represent a minority of the overall domestic violence convictions said Richard Alpert chief of the district attorney's misdemeanor crimes section The crime a Class A misdemeanor caries a maximum penalty of a $4000 fine and up to one year in jail Among those convictions is a six-month sentence that County Criminal Court Judge Brent Carr handed down in February to a man who threatened to pour gasoline under the door of his wife's bedroom and "burn her up" Assistant District Attorney Steve Gordon said he plans to retry the case Since January Tarrant County prosecutors have won five guilty pleas in stalking cases and one conviction Alpert said Another eight to 10 stalking cases are pending he said In comparison the district attorney's office has disposed of 384 other family violence cases this year Alpert said "I think the intent of the law was to deal with people before they committed a more serious offense" Alpert said "We don't want to wait until someone has been killed by their attackers before we criminalize their conduct" La Vonne Skalias of Watauga a stalking victim whose horrific case helped lead to the anti-stalking law said the court's ruling will put lives in jeopardy "This will result in unnecessary deaths" said Skalias who was raped sodomized and had her thumb cut off by a man who had stalked her then attacked her twice in her home Deborah Caddy director of rape crisis for the Woman's Center of Tarrant County said she is "really disappointed" about the ruling The state's first anti-stalking law was ruled unconstitutional by the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Lotto Texas numbers drawn last night 6 10 18 19 21 39 Estimated jackpot for last million 0 4 "These are last night's i-numbtrs drawn in this order'J CASH 5 11 12 21 23 35 These are the Cash 5 numbers drawn Tuesday night Three tickets matched five numbers for $92831 each There were 794 with four of the five numbers for $526 each and 28476 matchelithree for $24 each I 7 4 011 0 4 3 A )- 4 4444 torneys" Smith's NASCAR-style track sits on a 950-acre tract at Alliance Airport in far north Fort Worth The other 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