SOUTHLAND: BRIEFLY : BOARD DELAYS HEARING ON NEW CLUSTER HIRINGS.A public hearing before the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Board of Education to vote on whether to hire new cluster administrators was postponed Monday. The hearing was rescheduled for Monday at the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. offices. Over the objections of school principals, teachers and education reform leaders, Superintendent Sid Thompson has proposed spending nearly $4 million to add administrators and clerical workers to the district's 27 regional cluster offices. Clusters are groups of schools, each with its own management. SOURCE: Daily News Second trial for Fleiss set to begin Oct. 16 Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30 1965), known as the "Hollywood Madam", is a former American madam. She was convicted in connection with her prostitution ring with charges including pandering and tax evasion. Her ring had numerous famous and wealthy clients. will return to court Oct. 16 for retrial retrial n. a new trial granted upon the motion of the losing party, based on obvious error, bias or newly-discovered evidence. (See: newly-discovered evidence) on pandering charges, a judge ordered Monday. Fleiss, who was put back into a rehabilitation program when she failed a drug test, said outside court that she wasn't thinking about the retrial. ``Recovery is more important right now. I'm focused on that,'' she said. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had thrown out her 1994 conviction on three counts of pandering, citing juror juror n. any person who actually serves on a jury. Lists of potential jurors are chosen from various sources such as registered voters, automobile registration or telephone directories. misconduct because some of them had swapped votes to avoid a deadlock. Fleiss was free on bail while awaiting sentencing for her conviction last year on charges of laundering money from a sex-for-hire operation and cheating on her income taxes. She was scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 24. Regular drug tests were a condition of her bail, and when she failed one in late September, a judge ordered her back into Impact House, where she'd undergone rehab after testing positive for drugs in September 1994. Her lawyer, Donald Marks, said he is confident, noting that some jurors in the first trial were inclined not to convict her. ``The second time around our case will be even more compelling to her defense,'' Marks said. SOURCE: Associated Press Jury split in hearing on killer's sanity SANTA ANA - A mistrial A courtroom trial that has been terminated prior to its normal conclusion. A mistrial has no legal effect and is considered an invalid or nugatory trial. It differs from a "new trial," which recognizes that a trial was completed but was set aside so that the issues could be was declared Monday in the sanity hearing for Mark Richard Hilbun, a fired postal worker convicted of killing his mother and a former colleague in a 1993 shooting rampage. A Superior Court jury convicted Hilbun in August of two murder counts and seven counts of attempted murder. Since Sept. 5, they have been trying to decide whether he was sane at the time. Hilbun, 42, could face capital punishment capital punishment, imposition of a penalty of death by the state. History Capital punishment was widely applied in ancient times; it can be found (c.1750 B.C.) in the Code of Hammurabi. if it is determined he was sane. If determined insane, he may be committed to an institution. Attorneys said a decision on whether to retry re·try tr.v. re·tried , re·try·ing, re·tries To try again. Verb 1. retry - hear or try a court case anew rehear the sanity phase would be made next month. A court hearing was scheduled for Nov. 15. SOURCE: Associated Press |
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