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Shooting recalled as trial winds down TRIAL from page 1 Kennett said he found Cole awake, alert and covering his wound with a cloth on the couch in Williams’ apart ment. He said he looked at the wound and called paramedics. Christo pher Jones, who in 1995 was a para medic with East ern Ambulance, was dispatched to Williams’ house. He fend Cole ***!,„,, with cool skin, sweating and irritable. Auer redressing tne wound anu tax ing steps to stabilize Cole’s blood pres sure, Jones and another paramedic loaded him into an ambulance and took ; him to the trauma center at Lincoln General Hospital. There, Dr. Lorance Newbum, a clinical doctor who was working at Lincoln General Hospital Aug. 2, 1995, examined Cole. He testified that the bullet entered Cole’s right side, bounced off a rib and tunneled under the skin to his breastbone. Newbum said Cole’s injuries were not life-threatening but were painful. Newbum removed the bullet and gave it to Lincoln Police Sgt. Joseph Wright, who then took it to the Lin coln Police property department. When Lahners tried to introduce the slug removed from Cole, Chief Public Defender Scott Helvie objected to the admission of the bullet. He said Lahners had not provided sufficient foundation to show the bullet in his hand was the same bullet removed from Cole. Lancaster County District Court Judge Bernard McGinn sus tained the objection. Testimony for the day ended with Lincoln Police Sgt. Allen Townsend, I 77" who conducted searches of Washington’s apartment and the apart ment of Abdul Muhammed and Willis Brown. Muhammed and Brown were reported to be with Washington the night of the shooting. One piece of bitterly contested evi dence was a spent casing from a gun found in Muhammed and Brown’s apartment. Helvie, in objections and in cross-examination, showed that the bullet was not in Washington’s apart ment, nor was evidence found in Washington’s apartment. In fact, Helvie argued, the shell cas ing was the only gun-related piece of evidence found at either location. Testimony started Monday with Nathan Miles, who lived across the street from the Kwik Shop in 1995. Miles testified that he saw men run ning from the Kwik Shop after an ar gument. Miles saia ne could identity wasn ington as the gunman and Muhammed as a man running from the scene from newspaper photos — something de fense attorneys hammered him about. Miles, who called police after the incident, said he told police who he saw, but later told a defense investiga tor that he could not identify Washing ton. He said he did not want to get in volved in the case. Before Miles could give a reason, the defense objected, and McGinn would not allow him to answer. In tes timony outside the jury’s presence, Miles said he feared retaliation for his testimony, but Helvie argued that state ment was not allowable and the judge agreed. * The defense, in its cross-examina tion, also introduced into evidence that Miles had two previous convictions for giving false statements to police. Washington’s trial continues today at 9 a jil with further testimony from Townsend. } v state senators consider trimming 9May sessions By Erin Schulte Senior Reporter State senators will debate an other day on a constitutional amend ment that would shorten the length oflegislative sessions. Legislators discussed LR5CA, a resolution that would shorten the 90-day session to 80 days. The Ne braska Legislature currently meets for 90 days in odd-numbered years 'and 60 days in even-numbered years. The constitutional amendment was introduced by Sen. Elaine Stuhr of Bradshaw. senators were spilt on wnetner shortening the session would streamline debates, or simply limit their time to do an effective job. Some senators said constituents thought lawmakers spent too much time in session. “Most of the people I talk to at home wish we wouldn’t come here at all,” Sen. Merton L. “Cap” Dierks of Ewing said, jokingly. Sen. C.N. “Bud” Robinson of Blair said other states, such as Ala bama, Arkansas and Kentucky, meet only 60 days in two years. “They must be doing something we’re not doing,” Robinson said. The reason other states might have shorter sessions, Sen. Chris Beutler of Lincoln pointed out, is because they have two-house legis latures to divide workloads. Another reason Nebraska needed longer sessions, Beutler said, was that it is a non-partisan body. Members have to discuss many bills with other senators to reach a consensus, instead of just going along with the leadership of their respective parties. • Also, Sen. Roger Wehrbein of Plattsmouth said, some states don’t have hearings open to the public, and some artificially limit debate time. Other senators said they did not waste time during the long session and could not accomplish work they needed to do in a shorter period of time. .1 Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha said he thought the number of days the Legislature meets should be left alone, and that reducing the num ber of days would essentially hand over oower to the governor. Sen. DiAnna Schimek of Lin coln said the end of the sessions are very close to primary elections, and incumbents would like to use that time to campaign. Sen. David Maurstad of Beatrice disagreed.. “We can do a better job if we have more time to do it, not less time,” Maurstad said. “If an incum bent is in that much trouble, another five days isn’t going to help them anyway.” Chambers said the Nebraska Legislature wasted time on trivial bills, and refusing to discuss them would leave time for more impor tant bills. “I don’t think any legislature ought to waste time on picking a (state) fish, a bug or a river,” he said, referring to bills introduced last week. Chambers said he would speak out in committee hearings against the bills. “They can always find time for these nonsensical bills.” UNLFood Service builds healthful habits with, pyramids By Kasey Kerber Staff Reporter Five hundred cardboard pyra mids, four giant wood pyramids and hundreds of 3- by 8-inch drawings of pyramids. No, it’s not something from an cient Egypt. It’s part of UNL Food Service’s promotion of the food guide pyramid. Food service will promote the food guide pyramid and its message of healthful eating from now until March 3. Every other week during this span, a new food group will be in troduced, and its importance to the food guide pyramid will be ex plained. Pam Edwards, coordinator of food service operations, said this week’s emphasis was on the bread, cereal, rice and pasta group, which is at the base of the pyramid. To get the daily six to 11 serv ings of this group, Edwards said stu dents could select items like dinner rolls, angel hair pasta, croutons or a wide variety of breakfast cereals. The pyramid, first published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is a guide to healthful eating. It places an emphasis on the daily con sumption of servings of the five food groups. She said one goal of displaying the food guide pyramid was to help influence a healthier diet for stu dents and show them how big a serv ing should be. Edwards said a serv ing from one of the food groups is often perceived as larger than it re ally is. To promote the pyramid and healthful eating, food service worked with the maintenance de partment and nutritional science department. The maintenance department constructed four 4-foot-tall pyra mids with pegboard backing, allow ing items from each food group to be placed on the pyramid. Meanwhile, the nutritional sci ence department provided dietetics majors as student volunteers. Karen Miller, registered dieti tian, said the student volunteers are available at residence cafeterias each Monday and Wednesday night to answer questions about the pyra mid. But one of the most time con suming parts of promoting the food guide pyramid was the production of hundreds of small food guide pyramids on 3- by 8-inch pieces of paper. These small pyramids are posted above the certain food items of fered, which correspond to the food group being recognized that week. 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