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Area television camera crews wait outside the district courthouse Tuesday afternoon
where the jury is still deliberating the evidence and testimony in the Roger Bjorklund
trial. ______ ___
Expenses
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Media attention and avid public
interest in the trial have spurred the
sheriffs department to increase secu
rity in and near the courtroom, Casady
said.
“Here we arc now, with nothing
going on except the jury beginning its
deliberations, and we’ve got a full
hallway of people,” Casady said,
motioning to more than 20 people
sittingoutsideDistrictCourtroomNo.
2. “Naturally, we’re going to keep a
little tighter lid on things.”
Casady said he had used several
more deputies during the trial because
of its length. The sheriffs department
has provided security during 20 days
since the jury was chosen.
Bruce Medcalf, chief deputy clerk
of the Lancaster County District Court,
said jurors received $30 a day for their
services.
The district court also pays to house
the jurors at the Cornhuskcr Hotel in
Lincoln for $55 a day, Medcalf said.
That adds up to about $ 1,000 a day in
jury expenses.
However, Medcalf said the district
court was in no danger of runn ing over
the $60,000 budget it had set for the
trial.
Deliberations
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jury.
Laccy said jurors requested 11
copicsoftranscripts from Bjorklund’s
three confessions. Following an ob
jection from defense attorneys, he
said, the judge denied the request.
Since only one copy had been sub
mitted as evidence, the judge told the
jury, one copy was all jurors would be
allowed to view, Lacey said.
The jury may listen to tapes of the
confessions during deliberations.
Lacey said, and probably just wanted
to follow along.
Skate
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The last big skating boom was
roller disco dancing, Wilhite said.
During that time big lights and disco
music were rink favorites.
The museum has a book of roller
disco dancing full of popular disco
moves. One picture shows Kevin
Bacon demonstrating the “can opener”
move.
Regular attendance at the museum
is low, Wilhite said, because few
Lincoln residents know about it. His
patrons come mostly from outside the
Lincoln area, he said.
But the museum’s business booms
every two years. During a two-week
period when the National Roller
Skating Championships are held in
Lincoln, thousands of people tour the
museum, Wilhite said.
Museum visitors’ reasons for
coming are varied, he said.
“You won’t believe the number of
little old couples who are lilelong
skaters that come here,” Wilhitc said.
“But then some people sec an ad and
come to sec it because they think it is
the weirdest thing.”
Wilhite said roller skating’s
popularity went in peaks and valleys
through the years.
“It goes in booms." he said.
The latest boom is in-line skating,
also known as roller blading.
But Wilhitc said in-line skates were
nothing new.
Actually, that is the way roller
skating all began.
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It goes in booms.
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“The first skate mimicked the ice
skate so people could skate in the
summer,” Wilhite said. “The wheels
were in line like the runners on an ice
skate.”
The first in-line skate waspatented
in 1819, Wilhite said. In-line skates
disappeared for a while when the quad
skate with the wheels at the corners
was invented.
“The quad skate caught on because
you didn’t have to lift your foot up to
steer,”Wilhitc said.
In-line skates have been marketed
and ignored a few times since 1819.
Roller blades owe their recent
popularity to a new polyurethane
material used to make the wheels and
the way the skate is geared foroutdoor
use, Wilhite said.
In-line skating re-energized the
roller-skating market, but has hurt the
quad-skate market and roller-skating
rinks, Wilhite said.
“Rinks were declining in Lincoln
before roller blading and they continue
to do so,” Wilhite said. “We’ve gone
from three to one rink in Lincoln in
the last 10 years or so.”
It will take time to tell whether or
not the roller-blading boom is here to
stay, Wilhite said, but a few of the
other skating trends from the past
make for interesting museum fodder.
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