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.I • VOLUME 36 December 2, 2002 ISSUE 1071 Happy Holidays! A ,See Section B THECURREN TONLINE.COM UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST. LOUIS Missouri· COurt of Appeals , hears cases on campus Court tries cases ranging from assault ,. and robbery t o second degree m urder BY B ECKY ROSNER - ~-- - Staff 'Writer ! i ! . I On Monday, Nov. 18 at 1:15 p.m. in Century Room B of the Millennium Student Center, the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals held proceedings at UM-St Louis for tbe first time ever. TIle Court of Appeals appears at all different locations throughout the Governor Bob Holden spoke to the public Tuesday afternoon to present his "Fair Share Budget Plan." Ilene Peyton, a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic, took state. There are three appellate Holden laid out his plans to increase state revenues by closing tax loopholes and holding corporations advantage of the open forum to ask Governor Holden to courts in Missouri. The eastern accountable. Afterwards, he opened the floor for questions from the public. Holden is on a tour of Mo. to continue funding Medicaid. districtis the state' largest appellate explain why the state is in its current budget crisis and what is being done to rectify the situation. court The courts try to move around ~ in an attempt to make the cases more convenient fOf the attorneys and to give different communities a chance to see the COUlts in action. The room was full of men and omen in busin but there us were nanny any stndents pre.sent at almost $900 million in the last fiscal j bs from the s1lIte of Mo .. and more Ac ording to Holden, one of the Holden said. f the event News Channel 5 was BY .1&50• • GRANGER ear. Almost $290 million, or 37 are set be cut bigges t problems facing Mo. is Holden also discusse.d the benefil~ present at the occasion and had a - Nel Editor percent of the cuts have come from loopholes in the tax structure that of banking out of state for story on the 6 p.m. news that night. the dep,utment of Higher Education. allow for money to be funneled away corporations. According to Holden and praising the event. News 5 reportef Mo. Gov. Bob Holden came to The UM-System has fa]len on dire --"-- from the state budget. his staff, Mo. is the only state in the Sharon Ste\'GIls commented that she llM-St. Louis Nov. 26 to discuss the straits: administrators ga e Holden said the "Geoffrey cDuntry that allows corporations to was surprised not to see very many Gov. Holden tried to current budget crisis llild to seek consideration to closing one of the four Loophole," needs to be addressed by avoid paying state taxes on income students in attendance. possible answers from those in llM campuses. ' allay the fears of the the legislature immediately to stop the from out of state investments such as "1 didn't hear anything about the attendance at the press conference. New President Elson Floyd tried to citizens by asking flow of monev out of Mo. According bank deposits. stocks llild certain event," freshman Carl Mertens saici Holden was accompanied by Linda assure the citizens of Mo. at his press to Holden, th~ "Geoffrey Loophole" IOllils. By closing this loophole, the "I saw something about it on the f or their advice in Luebbering, director of Budget and conference e.arlier this month by allows for large companies such a.~ state would save $24 million per news llild thought that it would have Planning,; Carol Russell Fischer, saying the UM-System would remain stabilizing the Toys R Us and Home Depot to create annum. been interesting to see." director of the Missouri Department of a four school system, but he would budget, while at the dummy corporations in Delaware and, The last loophole Holden discussed Chief Judge Lawrence E. Revenue: and Don Phares, professor have to work hard to ensure the with some reorganization of was the "Yacht Loophole." llnder this Mooney led the cases along with same time stressing of &:onomics and Public Policy at financial security of the institutions. paperwork, transfer their profits out of loophole, citizens who purchase a boat Judges Kathianne Knaup Crane and UM- St. Louis. Phares was hired by Gov. Holden tried to allay the fears the need to reduce state so they will not have to pay taxes weighing more than five tons are >l Shen'i B. SulliVllil. The ca~es ranged the state o[ Mo. to examine the current of the citizens of Mo. by asking for state expenditures .••• on them. According to Holden, this allowe.d to pay a watercraft tax instead from a sault to second-degree budget crisis llild find wbere there are their advice in stabilizing the budget, loophole costs Mo. more than $5 of the state sales tax. The watercraft murder. The judges heard five cases possible leaks in thestate.tax. system. while at the same time stressing the million annually. Mo. is currently tax has a maximum payment of total. The state of Mo. is currently facing nee.d to reduce state expenditures by --,,-- suing two companies, Acme Brick Co. $3,050.00, which means that if a One of the cases dealt \vith a mllil its largest budget crisis since World more than he already has. of Texas and Gore Enterprise person buys a $300,000 yacht, they named Shllile Habermann.. who was _ War II, according to Holden, with a According to Holden, even though Holdings, to try and recoup some of would still only pay $3,050.00 in in a bar fight He grabbed a knife out budget shortfall that could surpass he has eliminated almost $900 million "We must addre,~s the problems of those lost funds. taxes. or one percent. I of his pocket llild slashed a IDllil'S $500 million by the end of the next from the state operating budget, the the declining state revenue." Holden "Other states, including our throat outside of the bar. The mllil fiscal year. need to reduce more exists. He went said. "We must also take into account neighbor lU., have done away with this with the knife was much smaller In response to the shortfalls, Gov. on to say that he has cut almost 1000 what the people of Mo. wllill" loophole; it's time we did so too," see HOLDEN, page 8 thllil the mllil that he was fighting Holden has cut the state budget by against. The appeUant's lav.'Yer, Raymond Jared Capelovitch, said that he did it in self-defense. Another case that was presented was that of a sexwll predator named Officer fires seven shots at suspect near campus Thomas IngraSsia, who somehow escaped from prison while in BY ANNE BAUER Natural Bridge. The suspect, Shawn E. trllilsport. The appellant's lawyer Managing Editor Brown, 26 is an African American stated that he is not able to control male from 4978 Loughborough Ave. these behaviors; however, Ingrassia Brown was driving a green Ford • has not been seen since October of A Bel-Ridge officer shot a suspect Explorer. last year. The state's respondent, in the leg last Tuesday after the mllil "At Lucas and Hunt llild Natural James Robert Layton, argued that it pointed what appeared to be a gun at Bridge, he n-erris] saw the car speeding was not be certain whether or not Ionathllil Terris, a Nonnandy Police and then clocked him at 113," they would be able to locate officer. Normandy Police Chief John Connolly Ingrassia for are-trial. The shooting happened at 2: 15 p.m. saici A fter all of the cases were Brown then continued driving \ presented, the judges were west-bound on Natural Bridge and dismissed, llild all of the lawyers and --"-- pulled into the driveway between the on-lookers left the room. Areception middle school llild the elementary followed the proceedings, where the After the shooting, complex where he stopped his vehicle. public was given the opportunity to . Normandy Police 'The officer told him repeatedly to chat \vith the judges and lawyers. discovered that what put his hands where they could be seen. He stepped out of the car llild had I appeared to be an a gun in bis hllild.. He raised it at the automatic pistol that officer," a Normandy Police Ii i was pointed at the Lieutenant, who _wished to not be I identified, said. officer was not a real INDEX I Terris then fired seven shots at the I gun. man, one of which hit him in the B_u.ttetin _ B",oa=r~d__ .___ -= 2 I upper-right thigh. ! FeatlJLes 3 --,,-- After the shooting, Normllildy Pcilice discovered that what appeared Opinions 4 on the driveway between Normllildy to be an automatic pistol that was Kevin OttIeyl The Sports 5 Middle School and the Lucas Crossing . pointed at the officer was not a real Elementary Complex on Natural gJlll. Normandy poHce blOck off the driveway between Normandy Middle School and the Lucas CroSSing t.r~_& Ent~:.:..:in-"m~e .;.;:l1ot.;:.. __---,- 6 Bridge Road, directly across the street "It was identical in almost every Elementary Complex last Tuesday after a man was shot in the leg by a Bel-Ridge officer. The_y~e Idi~~~· _______ 10 from UM-St Louis South Campus. way. 1 don't know why someone Terris attempted to pull over the would point a fake gun at llil officer," Center for treatment. He was charged enforcement officer. His bond is set at was injured in the shooting.