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Parents of slain student win judgment . '? I L:,: contributed to the USD Anne Swanke tempted murder of Jodie Santiago, '? o t d t to respond to the wron_glul dea th d 29 of Seattle The a ent of slain US s u en o d Music Scholarship Fun . , · . •

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Lucas also faces a June 16 prehm1: nary hearmg for three other mur Swan e ISappe~re she was seen carrymg a gaso~n\~~ to her _car, which was foun a_,;. · . n d ers. k d' d Nov 19 after

Court records show that Lucas was served with the Swankes' suit in his He has an Oct. 1 trial date for the Swanke slaymg as well as the Oct. 23 slayings of Rhonda Strang, 24, and be Amber Fisher, 3, and the June 9 at- county jail cell. .

lawsuit withm the reqwred 3 . ay Greenblatt said his next task 1s to prove the amount of damage_ sought_. He seeks $10 000,135, includmg van- ouTshceosSt~ankes said that any award realized from the lawsuit would period. .

Anne p therine Swanke have ob- laln('d a $ 10 million default judgmen_t agamst h r accused killer, av1 Attorn y . Gershon D. Gr nblatt, ntmg Swanke's parents, John "nd K thl n Swanke, requ ted _the d hull Judgment alter Luca 31 e D d Allen Lucas repr ..

Huffman appointed to~uperior Court Tribune S/811 Writers Richard Huffman, who prosecuted Mayor Hedgecock and other prominent figures in 14 years with the district attorney's office here, was named today to the Superior Court bench. . Gov. Deukmejian notified Huffman, 46, the !Jo: ; prosec~tor m the district attorney's office, of the long-expected Judicial a pomtment by telephone yesterday and formally announced it today m Sacramento._ The appoiotment assures that there will be a new set of lawyers m the courtroom when Hedgecock goes on trial in August for a second time on felony charges of conspiracy and perjury in connection with his personal and political finances. Deputy District Attorney Charles Wickersham will ~ke ove~ for Huffman as leadfosecutor in the Hedgecock case. He hkely will be Please see JUDG A-8 ~-- B 1tli.a~~borne and Ron Roach

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m·gration, border issues discussed at USD seminar Jim Okerblom ,,,,,..,:;:: aarr Writer ~"/,OJ panic leaders, lawyers, social

asylum. And it touched on increasing ten- sions between San Diego and Tijua- na, including what was described as "a sense of great indignation" in Ti- juana about several recent editorial cartoons in The San Diego Union. Titled "Immigrant Rights in Tran- sition," the conference was organized by the Hispamc Children's Law ProJect, a new group sponsored by the Law Institute USO and the Center for U.S.-MPJCican tu 1es at UCSD. "We want to make the legal re- sources of the (USD) law school and the resources at UCSD more accessi- ble to the community in regard to issues mvol ving Hispanics." said Susan Drake, director of the project. At a seminar yesterday, Robert Nava of the Hispanic Studies Depart-

ment at California State University at Fullerton, described how Hispanic groups in Orange County convinced three county police departments - Anaheim, Santa Ana and Cypress - not to cooperate with the Immigra- tion and Naturalization Service (INS) in raids on undocumented aliens. Nava said group leaders met with police chiefs and argued that when police officers are seen with INS agents, it only discourages undocu- mented aliens from reportmg crimes or serving as witnesses. Nava also described how Hispanic groups had fought what he described as a discriminatory ordinance passed in the city of Orange. The ordinance, he said, was aimed at preventing un- documented aliens from congregat- ing at an intersection where they waited each day to be hired for jobs.

It allowed nearby business owners to hand workers slips of paper asking them to leave, Nava explained to about 40 people at the seminar. If a worker did not comply, the owner could hold him under under citizen's arrest until police arrived to issue a $50 ticket. Dozens of workers, Nava said, were organized to pack a doughnut shop, where they sat eating doughnuts and drinking coffee. "You can imagine the reaction of the man- ager," he said, adding that interest in enforcing the ordinance quickly faded. Nava also urged Hispanic leaders to become well acquainted with indi- vidual TV and newspaper reporters, noting that the INS has hired media consultants to promote its point of view that aliens "are taking our jobs

and filling our schools." The impact of recent editorial car- toons in The San Diego Union on U.S.- Mexican relations also was dis- cussed. Specifically mentioned was a March 24 cartoon that depicted the 600-year-old Mexican national sym- bol - an eagle holding a snake standing on a cactus - but with the bird and snake standing on a mari- juana plant, smoking marijuana cig- arettes and surrounded by "lines" of cocaine. It was used to illustrate a story about how Mexico's poor are most often the victims of the U.S.- Mexican war on drugs. The impact of the cartoon was multiplied because its appearance coincided with a visit of three treas- ured national artifacts to Tijuana - the Mexican flag from the National ,/

Palace bearing the eagle and snake symbol, the original copy Of the 1917 constitution and the bell used to begin the 1810 war of independence, said Dr. Jorge Vargas, director of the USD Law Institute. The cartoon "depicted Mexican na- tional symbols in a very dishonorable way .. people took that as a terrible offense in Tijuana and Mexico," Var- gas said. He told the conference that this cartoon, as well as one that appeared last Sunday, depicting an overweight Mexican dancing on Uncle Sam's hat, and others, have sparked a campaign against the San Diego newspaper in Tijuana, supported by a Tijuana radio station, a Tijuana political group and the Tijuana Bar Associa- tion.

or ers and others met to discuss a wide range of topics dealing with im- migration laws and border issues at a two-day conference at the Univer- s1ty of San D go y terday and Fri- day The impact 1mm1gration laws are having on 'iildren and on the many ·b1-national Hispanic farruhe with botn d umented and undocumented m m were among the subjects addressed m a series of sernmars. The conference also offered advice to attorneys and community leaders about how to deal with actions against undocumented aliens by the poll(:e and Border Patrol agents, m eluding way to block the deporta- tion of people seeking po!Jtical

The dtet1onary defme holocau t a "a complet r t orough de~truc- tion by lire of large numbers of human bemgs." U ing this definition, one mu t agree that military build- up by any nation preparation for a new holocau t, 1.e., destruction of large numbers of "the enemy." I wonder why the right-to-lifers ar not vigorously opposing military build-ups throughout the world. Sure- ly, th y would be aving more lives that w y then by hara sing women whos only sm i · birth control

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Gov. Deukmejian chose wisely in appointing Assistant District Attorney Richard Huffman to the Superior Court here. Al:f 55 A career prosecutor, Mr. Huff- man began his service with the state attorney general's office in 1966. When his colleague, U.S. At- torney Edwin Miller, became San Diego's District Attorney in 1971, Mr. Huffman joined the office. Presently, he is the number-two man, supervising the second larg-

est district attorney's office in the state. Dick Huffman is, of course, best known for his prosecution of Mayor Roger Hedgecock. During the trial, Mr. Huffman's straight- forward courtroom style and careful preparation was on daily display. The mayor's defense counsel, Michael Pancer, was moved to observe, "There is no lawyer who could have put on as good a case as Dick Huffman

did." A friend of U.S. Attorney Gen- eral Edwin Meese, Mr Huffman is director of the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Man- agement, which Mr. Meese found- ed at the Uniyersity of San Diego in 1975. Mr. Huffman will teach an international law course at Oxford University this summer. The Superior Court will be stronger for having Richard Huffman on the bench. ~--~--~-~

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