Bjorklund wants new name
From Staff Reports
Roger Bjorklund has petitioned
the Lancaster County District Court
to change his name to Tommy Will
iam DeSimone.
Bjorklund was convicted in 1992
for the rape and murder of UNL stu
dent Candice Harms and will be sen
tenced next week to either life impris
onment or death.
The petition, filed Monday, is an
amendment to an earlier petition that
asked for his name to be changed to
Tommy Lukert, which he derived
from the names of his biological par
ents.
DeSimone is the name of a gang
ster in the book “Wiseguy.” Mention
of that character is not made in the
petition.
In the hand-written petition,
Bjorklund states that he has had no
formal contact with his adoptive par
ents for the past six years.
“I have nothing but hate and dis
dain for the name my adoptive par
ents gave me,” he wrote. “Each time
I hear my name I am reminded and
relive the years of torment that I had
while living with my adoptive par
ents.”
Bjorklund wrote that he established
a relationship with his birth mother
seven years ago and that he wants to
establish his own heritage — Irish,
Italian and German — with the new
name.
“It is important to the petitioner’s
mental state and continued inner
growth to change his legal name,”
Bjorklund wrote.
Judge Paul Merritt was reviewing
the petition Wednesday, but no court
date has been set.
Lottery
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sented an irresistible urge to some.
“It’s just like the first drink to an
alcoholic,” she said. “Compulsive
gambling is the purest form of addic
tion there is.
“But the lottery itself is just the tip
of the iceberg.”
Hammond said a compulsive gam
bler in the lottery would buy five, 10,
50, even 100 tickets on a regular
basis. All of which she has witnessed,
she said.
But it’s the people who have gradu
ated to casinos and bigger money tnat
find themselves with the biggest prob
lem, she said.
Teresa Krafka, a clerk at Q4Quik
on 17th and Vine streets, has been
selling lottery tickets for about a year.
She said she had seen interest grow.
“It’s increased as it’s gone on,”
Krafta said. “The students want the
lottery. They want the instant cash,
and they don’t want to wait.”
The tickets come in batches of
300, and some rolls may have only a
few winners of nothing more than
$20, she said. Others ticket rolls might
have a couple of $100 winners.
It’s a hit-and-miss game, she said.
Athlete’s charges
from one event,
judge rules
From Staff Reports
Two charges against NU
footbal 1 player T yrone Will iams
stem from the same event, a
judge ruled Wednesday.
Lawyers for Williams ap
peared in court to try to show
that the charges against their
client were unconstitutionally
similar, Deputy County Attor
ney Joe Kelly said.
Williams, who did not ap
pear at the hearing, has been
charged with the unlawful dis
charge of a firearm and the use
of a weapon to commit a felony.
Prosecutors allege that last
January, Williams fired a .22
caliber pistol into a car driven
by a University of Nebraska
Lincoln student.
Kelly said the ruling would
aid another motion that Will
iams’ lawyer filed.
Lancaster County District
Court Judge Bernard McGinn
set a hearing for Oct. 11 on the
motion to dismiss one of the
charges.
The motion, called a plea
and-bar motion, says Williams
could not have committed one
charge without committing the
other, Kelly said._
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