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Endacott also ruled that Special Prosecutor Robert Bartle’s authority in the case was “limited to prosecut ing only the specific indictments re turned by this grand jury against these defendants.” Bartle had asked for clarification of his position, stating that he be lieved probable cause existed to file felony charges against one or more of the defendants. Bartle wrote, “It is clear ... that no other prosecuting attorney will be able to act upon this information except for the special prosecutor.” After Endacott’s ruling was re leased, however, Bartle said filing additional charges now was a ques tion for County Attorney Gary Lacey. Bartle will turn over investigative find ings to Lacey this week. Lacey did not return Daily Nebras kan phone calls this weekend. Carlos Monzon, a lawyer for the Renteria family, said he talked to Lacey on Friday about filing additional charges, but the county attorney was not very receptive to the idea. Bartle said he could not appeal Endacott’s ruling. The decision was not a surprise or a disappointment, he said, but an answer. The answer clari fied the special prosecutor’s role for him and all other interested parties, he said. The Renteria family, Monzon and members of the Hispanic community criticized Bartle in recent weeks for not filing felony charges. Bartle also said he would not ap peal Endacott’s earlier ruling that dis missed an indictment of official mis conduct against Police Chief Tom Casady. The year-and-a-half-long delay would not be in the best interest of those affected or the community, he said. The Nebraska Supreme Court last week denied a request by the Renteria family to order Bartle to file addi tional charges. The family is now considering fil ing in another court, he said. Monzon did not specify when additional action might be taken, or what the action might be. Endacott did grant Bartle his re quest for co-counsel, assigning Patrick W. Healey to assist the special pros ecutor. Cost of death, life focus of debate By J. Christopher Hain Senior Reporter The cost of the death penalty was the focus Friday of efforts to support a bill in the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee that would repeal the death penalty. LEGISLATURE LB 18, sponsored by Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, would re place the death penalty with life imprisonment or life imprisonment without the possi bility of parole. Nelson Potter, a University of Ne braska-Lincoln philosophy professor and chairman of Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty, said the death pen alty was a costly law. “It’s more expensive to attempt to put someone to death than it is to keep that same person in prison for the rest of his life,” Potter said. He said the cost of the death pen alty in Nebraska had not been ad equately studied, but it should have been. A report issued in January by the Nebraska Legislative Research Divi sion found it was difficult to deter mine the cost of the death penalty in Nebraska. But based on studies in North Carolina and Kansas, the re port concluded that death penalty cases were likely to be more costly than murder cases where the death penalty was not issued. “The question is whether the state should spend the time* the money, the other resources,” Chambers said when he introduced the bill. Scott Wesely, coordinator for Ne braskans Against the Death Penalty, said the death penalty was not seen by law enforcement as an effective deter rent to crime. He said many states without the death penalty had low homicide rates. “Deterrence is a myth,” Wesely said. Rebecca Mehring said she struggled to listen to the testimony of those wanting to repeal the death pen alty. Her father, Eugene Zimmerman of Grand Island, was murdered on March 6,1979, by Charles Palmer. Palmer is still on death row. Mehring said that was where he should be. “It’s more expensive to attempt to put someone to death than it is to keep that same person in prison for the rest of his life. ” ■ NELSON POTTER UNL philosophy professor. She said she was not a revenge seeker, but the death penalty would prevent Palmer from brutally killing another man. “It’sthe only way to keep him from finding the legal maneuver that will eventually set him free,” Mehring said. Two other bills dealing with death penalty issues were quashed by the committee. LB755 would have limited the ap peals process in death penalty cases. LB310 would have changed the method of execution in Nebraska from the electric chair to lethal injection. Spend your summer on the island. Make '95 a summer to remember, and one you'll get credit for, while on the island of Manhattan, attending the Columbia University Summer Session. 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