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Qsssticii: When docs a police
c-.cer have ths right to enter a hater
rity or scrcrlt When U a search warrant
necessary to search psrt of a scrcrity or
fraternity? Signed, M.S.
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Ars-;zn D car H.D.: Your question
pertains to the arcs cf search Kid
seizure lr.7 under the Fourth Amend
ment. It to a diScult question to
answer because thi-3 is eh cm cf hr
that i3 quite complex end currently in
a state cf flux. With this in mir.d, the
most general advice 1 can offer is that
the police probably can enter irto the
downstairs common area entryway
without a warrant, bat net the private
rooms.
A member cf a fraternity cr scrcrity
is entitled to protection under the
Fourth Amendment guaranteeing free
dom from ur.feasor.atl3 searches j:rst
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residence. However, because cf the
nature of the living arrangements in
Greek houses and the feet that certain
areas cf them are open to til members
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ar.d at t!:r.c3 the general public, soma
slightly different search end seizure
rules apply.
With the consent of any resident, a
police ef.lecr could enter common
areas such 3 the foyer, living room cr
cllnin I room without a search warrcnt.
A police officer cculd not legally enter
personal living quarters such as bed
rooms without a warrant unless 1) the
Individual occupant consented to the
entry cr 2) the cfT.ccr had probable
cause to believe a crime was being
committed and "exigent" cr emergency
circumstances justified immediate
entry.
Before tMrg consent to any police
cfllcer who wants to enter your room,
you should consult with an attorney.
Never physically resist a police officer
that i3 going to enter without consent,
but verbally ask the cccr to leave.
Qucstisa: Last week my car was
towed from a university parking let.
The company that towed it caused $300
worth cf damage to the bumper and
front end. How cen I get them to pay for
the damage? Signed, CO.
AnswR Dear CO.: The univer
sity has a policy of towing a car when
the cur:
0 is on the impoundment list,
usually because cf delinquent parking
tickets more than 20 days overdue.
0 is perked in a designated reserved
stall
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zcae or Ere hydrant '
O b parked on the lawn or sidewalk.
When the UNL police authorize the
towing of a car from a UNL lot, the
oLIeer fills out a "damage report" on
the condition cf the car prior to towing.
If you haven't picked up your car yet,
take phcto3 of the damage before you
move it. Ask to talk to the manager of
the towing company and call his or her
attention to the problem. You probably
won't resolve the matter before taking
year car home, but at least you will
have notified the toeing company of
your intent to hold them responsible.
Consider contacting your own in
surance company. Your policy may
cover the damage minus a deductible.
Once your Insurance company pays
you, it can proceed against the towing
company with a lawsuit cr possibly
settle with the towing company's
insurance company.
If recovering through your own
instutnee company is not an option,
you mcywant to sue the towing company
in Small Claims Court. Get an estimate
cn the damage. Send a letter to the
towing company asking that they send
a check for the estimated damage
within 10 dajs. Enclose a copy cf the
repair estimate. If you don't get a
satisfactory response from your letter,
file a Small Claims lawsuit.
In court, you will have the burden of
proving that the damage to your car
was caused by the negligence of the
towing company. You may want to
consider having a mechanicbody
repairperson testify about the car
damage.
If you have a legal problem cr
question for this column, send a letter
to Ask Your Attorney, co Shelley Stall,
Student Legal Services, Nebraska Union
335.
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Sen. Patricia Moorhead of Beatrice,
another co-sponsor, said motorcycles
and police vehicles were not intended
to fall under the bill's jurisdiction, and
that they will be written cut.
"We certainly intend to hive that
clariSed," Moorhead said.
According to statistics compiled by
Moorhead, the proposed law annually
would save 85 lives and prevent about
2,800 injuries. Fdkr to pass the law
would cost the state many lives and, by
1SS7, more money.
"It's & proven fact that safety belts
save lives and reduce irjuries," Hoc?
head said. "If states don't require
belts, cars will cost more to pay for
automatic resents."
Elizabeth Dole, secretary of trans-
mobile industry by 137 to install
either ail bsgs or automatic seat belts
attached to doors. The attached seat
belts would restrain paaeengsrs cr.ee
they get into & car and close the door.
The rests of those features would be
paased to buyers in states that have no
mandatory eest belt kw, lloorhead
"Air bep T8 an expensive and faef
fective mesas cf protection," said Sen.
James Cell c Tekamsh, encthe? eo '
fpcRScr. The device offers no prote
tion ffcsa rear end or side collisions, or
in rollover seddests.
Safety belts, like those found In
most cars on the read today, are the
best traSs death and injury deterrent,
Moerhead said, "and they're already
paid for."
Several survivors of i.uto accidents,
their Ispcls dotted with red and white
buttons C't read "Facile Down. Eig
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C;t iz.-j I til, tavci their Uvea.
Cava !!:.n:::t;J c'E'tatriee testified
t;-:.t he tr.i 'ds v.ili were traveling
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from American vessraas
WASHINGTON One cf the lareot U.S. veterans' croups demanded
Wednesday that budget Director David Stockman be fifed for charging
that American military leaders put their pensions ahead cf national
security.
The White House declined direct comment cn Stockman's remark,
made Tuesday during testimony to the Senate Bedt Committee. But
spokesman Larry Speakcs noted that the budget director had said at that
time he did not think President Eeo tod to tfews.
In a telegram to P.essaa,'the Veterans efFcrcii Wars add Stockman's
remarks were "a slap in the face" to p:xt and pr::er.t members cf the
armed forces. "The VFV7 will not be satisfied until the 4 F draft dodging
Stockman has been fired and you have repudiated his views. We also
demand mat stoexman epoicgae. ia unui waa a reier-
ence to the fact that the budget director w:i en
are deemed unt for military ser1ee.
Former CIA arfent not I
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perative E. Howard
MIAMI Watergate conspirator and form-:
Hunt ws3 not libeled by a tabloid article saying ha was in Dallas the day
President John F. Kenney was aaeaasinatea, a Jury raled iesne3dsy.
Hunt, who served 33 months in jail for his part in the 1S72 burglary at
Democratic National Committee headquarters in Wsrhirten's Watergate
complex, sued Liberty Lobby, a right-wing political actfon group, over the
article that appeared in its weekly publication Spotlight in 187$. The
article, by Victor Marchetti, also a former CIA operative, quoted a
purported CIA memorandum as saying the agency would "have to explain
Hunt's presence in Dallas" Nov. 22, 18S3.
Hunt, 68, denied he was in Dallas at the time. This was the second time
Hunt's suit had gone to trial. In 1031 a jury decided he was libeled and
awarded him $850,000 damages, but that judgment was overturned on a
legal technicality.
z pleads innocent to charge
NEW YOF.K Subway vigilante Bernhsrd Goetz pleaded innocent
Wednesday to charges of illegal possesion of the gun he used to sheet four
black teenagers, as demonstrators' chants cf "racist" wafted into a tense,
heavily guarded courtroom.
It was Goetz' first court appearance since a Manhattan grand jury
refused to indict him for attempted murder or criminal assault for
shooting the youths on a subway train Dec. 22 after at least one cf them
demanded $5 from him. That decision led to uproar in the city's black
community and to Wednesday's loud demonstration outdds the Manhat
tan Criminal Courthouse where Goetz was arraigned cn the only charges
now lodged against him illegal possession of a pm.
Standing in snow outside the courthouse, about E0 people, most of
them young white radicals wearing Arab-style headdresses, chanted:
"Eemhard Goetz, you csa't hide, yoa m gailty of pnodde.M Theirslog&ns
and cries of "racist" could be heard in the llth-So cosrtrocra as Goetz'
lawyer, Joseph Kelner, entered & plea cf not guilty for Mm and success
Mly won & reduction cf Ms ball from to 15,001
Ced Wednesday that Westmoreland retod to nly to Wa hinrton a
report of higher enemy troop strcnh h Vietnam- tatair s U v.xal i'be "a
Kvm vniv
political bombshell." He siid WestmereLir. j ht!d r? & I.::y ICS? cable
meant for the Joist adefs cf centt kirj a "Lzl ;t:v;:,?:" hi'her"
number cr enemy troops than vistmereiand kvl Izjz tr-ztJ?-.
U4 Gen. Joseph McChristlaa, who sarved u :rtz:z:hi'a chief of
intelligence from July 1SS5 to Jung i:C7, jpahe b 0.3. fe ir' I cwzt as a
key witness for CBS News, which is tchg gu:d f? lit) rJJlicn by
Westmoreland. Westmoreland rcy3 he w:s llitljd ty C3 because it
chaffed in a 1822 document.!?, "A Vietnam D:cc;tfsnj T.3 D.scunted
Enemy, thit he ddiberately ur.d:re:,tiit-j tl-i rl-a c? cremv troops
poised against the United States and its e!li;s b tls l;tsrm Var.
WASHINGTON The U.S. government taasxtcsd Vcdnssdsy it will
open an investigation into the whereabscts cf Jcstf Vwnh, the
ous Nasi war criminal known as the "Catcher cf AeMs" and the
"Angel of Death."
"The invesiigiticn will seek to cemr'.le til credits cidsncs of the
current whereabouts cf !.!engel3 o well 3 infi-t1: x c:rxcrtln his
movements in occupied Germany tnd h!j rL--,--jj to South
Americi," Attorney General William Frcncn S.d'iki b srJundngthe
Mengels, wanted in West r. r- -i i-.. .i , u v ef fi
accused of taking part in the murdar cf CIO krs CurL-1 World War
" piang maeoos mcu'eal cxrc
inn'aies.
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