‘coupon '» 115% OFF! I Regular Priced | Merchandise | Lincoln 14th & P I Omaha 132nd & Center 1 | Sorry, NOT VALID with 9 | any other offer, previous |j I purchases. Doc Martens, | Lucky or fragrance. ■ Expires 12/31/00 L _COUPON~ / L Distinctive Clothing, Sportswear & Shoes Lincoln - 14th & P Omaha ■ 132nd & Center J Bookstore employee ticketed for stealing $1,224 A University Bookstore post office employee was ticketed Monday for stealing $1,224 in money orders this fall to pay her tuition and rent. University Police and a Postal Inspector traced the money orders, which were writ ten between Oct. 5 and 12, back to the bookstore, Assistant Chief Mylo Bushing said. Mina Alia Kurtubi, 23, told police she took the money orders because her parents in Indonesia could not send any money, Bushing said. Kurtubi made out money orders of $600 and $300 to the university for tuition, another of $284 for rent and a $40 order to pay her express charge account, Bushing said. Compiled by Josh Funk Convicted murderer must keep sentence BY UNDSEY BAKER U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf ruled last week that con victed death-row inmate Michael Ryan will not be eligible for resentencing by a jury. Ryan was convicted and sen tenced to death by a trial judge in 1986 after murdering James Thimm near Rulo in 1985. He contested the decision, saying a jury, not a judge, should have made the final sentencing. Ryan was the leader of a cult in Rulo and, along with fellow cult members, tortured member Thimm for several days before murdering him. The appeal was based on a June U.S. Supreme Court ruling that called for jury hearings to be utilized in the event of a possible increase of defendants’ maxi mum punishments, but that case did not involve the death penalty. Nebraska law, though, states capital punishment as the high est penalty possible for convict ed murderers. * Ryan argued that the jury, not a judge, should have weighed the circumstances of Thimm's murder before Ryan was sentenced. Assistant Attorney General Kirk Brown said he was pleased with Kopf's preliminary deci sion. “It was the proper reading of the law,” Brown said, adding that he didn't feel there was a “worse punishment” than death. One of Ryan's attorneys, Steven Achelpohl, said Kopf's order only pertains to part of Ryan's appeal. “It's not a final order," Achelpohl said. The legal team doesn't plan on appealing until the court makes a “decision on the petition as a whole.” Ryan’s other attorney, Michael Nelson, stressed the importance of a jury determin ing an appropriate sentence. “The issue (of jury versus judge sentencing) is going to continue to be addressed in fed eral criminal law," attorney Nelson said. He added that the debate may evolve into persons not only having a right to a jury trial to prove innocence or guilt, but also to determine a proper sen tence.