Friday, April 07, 2000
TRISTATE DIGEST
Motion to remove attorney is dropped
A motion calling for the disqualification of a plaintiff's attorney involved in the dispute over Hamilton County transracial adoptions has been dropped, a defendant's attorney said Thursday.
Ross A. Wright, the attorney for co-defendant Carol Wheeler-Strother, who along with the county and other individual officials is being sued in a class-action lawsuit, said an agreement has been reached on his client's motion.
He said he will file a notice todayin U.S. District Court to withdraw his client's motion to have plaintiff attorney Scott T. Greenwood removed from the case.
The motion came in a countersuit contending Mr. Greenwood was too close to the outcome of the transracial adoption suit because he is “for all practical purposes” married to his client, identified as a former Hamilton County social worker, John Doe.
Mr. Greenwood, who is openly gay, never has said whether his partner is a client.
Mr. Greenwood, along with co-counsel Alphonse A. Gerhardstein, called the motion “out of bounds” and a violation of civility.
Girl, 7, critical after being hit by car
A 7-year-old Kennedy Heights girl was critically injured Thursday when she was struck by a car on Zinsle Avenue in Kennedy Heights.
Diera Taylor was struck by a westbound vehicle as she was crossing the street in the 3800 block of Zinsle Avenue about 2:30 p.m., police said. The child, who was not in a marked crosswalk, was in critical condition at Children's Hospital Medical Center.
The driver of the vehicle was identified as Montez Taylor, 21, of Silverton.
The Cincinnati Police Division's traffic unit is continuing an investigation of the accident.
17th person convicted after DEA drug probe
A Lockland man has been convicted by a U.S. District Court jury of distributing crack cocaine.
Don Kemper, 49, of Mulberry Street was convicted Tuesday of crack cocaine trafficking for participating in the sale of approximately 5.1 grams of the drug on December 2, 1998.
Mr. Kemper's arrest was part of an undercover federal Drug Enforcement Administration operation looking into drug activity in the Lockland and Lincoln Heights area.
DEA officials report that 16 others have been convicted on federal charges during the past year in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati for drug trafficking in Lockland and Lincoln Heights as a result of the undercover operation.
Both the Lockland and Lincoln Heights police departments participated in the investigations.
Mr. Kemper faces up to 40 years with a mandatory minimum of five years in federal prison. He is being held in the custody of the U.S. Marshal pending sentencing.
Arrest made in death at west-side bar
A 38-year-old Price Hill man was arrested Thursday and charged in the March 28 death of man in a Bridgetown bar.
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office charged William Poole, of the 1700 block of Gellenbeck Street, with involuntary manslaughter in the death of 67-year-old Theodore Singler.
The fatal incident occurred at Pal's Lounge in the 4200 block of Harrison Avenue, the sheriff's office said.
Ohio challenging death penalty case
The Ohio Attorney General's Office will challenge a federal judge's decision to overturn the death sentence of a man who was convicted in 1985 of killing three members of an Oxford Township family.
Attorney General Betty Montgomery plans to file with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals before the May 1 deadline, said office spokesman Chris Davey.
“We believe it was a bad decision and hope to get it overturned by a higher court,” he said.
Last week, Chief U.S. District Judge Walter Rice ruled Rhett DePew's death sentence should be set aside because of prosecutorial misconduct during the penalty phase of the trial.
On Nov. 23, 1984, Mr. DePew broke into the home of Tony and Teresa Jones. He fatally stabbed Mrs. Jones, 27; her 14-year-old sister, Elizabeth Burton; and her 7-year-old daughter, Aubrey Jones. He then set the house on fire.
Speaker cancels, ceremony will go on
OXFORD — U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a 1960s civil rights leader from Georgia, will not speak at Miami University today as scheduled.
Mr. Lewis, D-Ga., had to cancel his speech at the opening of the Freedom Summer 1964 Memorial on the old Western College campus.
The ceremony will be held, however. In case of rain, the dedication will be in Leonard Theater in Peabody Hall. A new stone amphitheater, near Kumler Chapel, will honor local civil-rights supporters and the 800 students who trained there that summer to help register Southern blacks to vote.
A historical marker from the Ohio Bicentennial Commission will also be dedicated today.
Man gets 15 years for fatal shooting
A Colerain Township man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for shooting Jerric L. Anderson to death Oct. 16.
Rayshawn Walker, 21, received the maximum sentence for involuntary manslaughter from Common Pleas Judge Patrick Dinkelacker. Prosecutors say Mr. Walker was driving through the Skyline Acres subdivision when he shot Mr. Anderson in the chest.
The shooting occurred after a party in College Hill to raise money for a rap CD Mr. Anderson was recording.
Mr. Walker was to have been sentenced two weeks ago but failed to appear in court. He had been free on $200,000 bond.
He was arrested last week in Colerain Township.
Two scholars' work wins NEH funding
Two Cincinnati scholars have won grants in the latest competition at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Stephen A. Kaufman, a professor at Hebrew Union College, received $186,815 to support his work on a multivolume dictionary of Aramaic, a language commonly used in the Middle East in Jesus' time. He will receive an additional $75,000 if he can raise matching funds.
Thursday, Mr. Kaufman said he has received more than $1 million from NEH in his long-running project.
Jack L. Davis, professor at the University of Cincinnati, received $50,000 for archaeological field work and analysis by international scholars at the ancient Greek colony of Apollonia in Central Albania.
It was his first for this project but his third research grant from NEH, which promised another $100,000 if he raises a like amount.
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Teach kids to be 'culturally competent'
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Minority scholars program to honor namesake at events
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Defendant admits he killed girl
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Police chief's leave a mystery
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