SCHOOL URGES EX-LAB WORKER'S RELEASE.Byline: Jack Wheat Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire The University of South Florida • • [ has called for a former student lab worker to be released from prison as President Betty Castor Betty Castor (born Elizabeth Bowe in Glassboro, New Jersey on May 11, 1941) is an American public servant and educator who served as Florida Education Commissioner and President of the University of South Florida. scrambles to distance herself from a patent dispute without giving up the university's fight for the patents. The governor's office demanded the USF USF University of South Florida USF Universal Service Fund (often part of phone bill in US) USF University of San Francisco USF University of Sioux Falls USF University of St. report - released by university system Chancellor Charles Reed This article is about the British politician. For the Pennsylvania Congressman, see Charles Manning Reed. Sir Charles Reed MP FSA (1819 – March 25, 1881) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Hackney and St Ives), Chairman on Friday - as part of its intervention in the Petr Taborsky case. Last month, the Miami Herald reported on how Taborsky's dispute with USF over who invented and owns a new method of treating waste water landed Taborsky in a maximum-security prison in North Florida and on the chain gang. Earlier this month, Taborsky was transferred from the prison to a Tampa, Fla. work-release center. USF's report could help get Taborsky, 34, out of prison entirely. The governor can grant prisoners periods of freedom of as long as two months, and Gov. Lawton Chiles is reviewing a Taborsky petition for a 60-day leave. His punishment could be shortened permanently by a majority vote of the Cabinet. The Cabinet's next scheduled meeting to consider clemency Leniency or mercy. A power given to a public official, such as a governor or the president, to in some way lower or moderate the harshness of punishment imposed upon a prisoner. Clemency is considered to be an act of grace. petitions is in September. The tangled 7-1/2-year-old case began when USF called in campus police to investigate charges that Taborsky took lab notebooks and refused to return them. The data in the notebooks were the basis for a new method of purifying waste water. Taborsky says the method came from independent research he conducted while working in a USF lab. USF claims he stole the data from a research project on which he was paid to work. USF insists that Taborsky's imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. was entirely a result of his defiance of court orders ``rather than from any action by USF.'' But after Taborsky's 1990 conviction, Frank Borkowski, then president of USF, sent a hand-delivered letter to the judge, urging ``that Mr. Taborsky should be incarcerated incarcerated /in·car·cer·at·ed/ (in-kahr´ser-at?ed) imprisoned; constricted; subjected to incarceration. in·car·cer·at·ed adj. Confined or trapped, as a hernia. for his crimes and directed to pay a substantial fine.'' USF now says otherwise. From the report released Friday: ``The current administration of USF takes no pleasure in Mr. Taborsky's imprisonment and would not object to his release from prison.'' |
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