The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 07, 1985, Page Page 2, Image 2
Thur:;y, February 7, 1235 lJ J fa Dally Ncbrsskan wsirsnt rsiigl oe ne 1 1 ft I I If 1 I ' I m R S 7 Drority nouses E7 Cliclby Gtnll fosisat Legal Smite Laryer 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. i Mi I orney 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 23 if you resided in your c"?n private 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 MH1M 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 n IMI HIV Q Is blocking a drive or leading 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. ,4 feinmirfl ttmitoi'X&'Wi ...i 1..; r 1 v r & ' .: i 1 3 1 s r siitL' i Seat belt 1 i 1 : Register at booths m Cempus Unions CITY: Mon.-Fri. 10-3 p.m. Thurs. 5:30-0:30 p.m. EAST: Wed. 10-6 D.m. We invite both students and faculty to register. Some classes offered are: -CPR-CARDSGPULMOfJARY RESUSCITATION -BICYCLE TUfy-UP& REPAIR -CHILDCARE CENTERS -JUGGLING YDIVirJG GROUND SCHOOL -GHOST BUSTING -BASIC YOGA ' -KARATE & JUDO CLASSES RUN FROM FEB. 18 TO MARCH 22. " DEADLINE FOE EGISTRATION IS rfH9i4. II If Resfstrstfon Fes: Studsnt$$1.C3 flcn-Studsnts $2.03 7 QUESTIONS CALL: 472-2454 f! n n. J ! ( In ? rrt i ? r I ; if ' " i f If c 1 II 3 I if m f o 33 r :i m ! I I I 1 i- ll 2 Ml i 5 III ii. m g , J : If il U 1 if 1 1 '1 -I ; . if li I ij I ! I If! S i 1 1 N ; ' " ' 1 i . . : i Continued frm Page 1 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 E:J, Step ro H-rt, lLZn testl5ed 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 '" i -' v ii.i,iiv'3, ;tn a r ;z r- irrl it 5 th:ir hne. TI-.:ir 1033 " . . : -s b r ) yJL t i a cur minds that a:t I :iz rv: 1 c; Lies c1 rsdced e-ij ir:i!D-.eiv;;r c r I! a c t c v . :.o v. j r.t t we sri.- f a e;; Vlt, t: :ri L:a lis car aid ran o .tVj& Irg r'ris. " 7(1 I 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 hj? w.- 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. i r'-'a tn t'M i-M f.. n.. . - - Vv. , J V. --! ... .... . . .IJ fr; L:riz7 cn l::i: wu;3 tcf -;a'U:i r,:i b & p . ::i:n l- i:-: ii n I e;i n.t 1 1 , :tr' t: 3 r:avtt4