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Attorneys ask fo sxxdated Pre? CHARLESTON ? Lawyers in the legal challenge to The Citadel's all-male corps of cadets asked a tederai judge Monlay to again delay a trial after they bickered over evidence. "The more I delay, the more I cause problems next sumner and next spring," U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck earned. Houck has set a Nov. 20 trial on whether a women's leadrship program at Converse College is an acceptable alterative to women cadets at The Citadel. Hie trial was to have been held last summer to determine f Shannon Faulkner would be permitted to become a cadet. Death Row inmate to get new sentence I Usodated Press I COLUMBIA?A man sentenced to die or the murder of a St. Matthews woman nust get a new sentencing trial because urors did not know he could never get jarole if they rejected the death penalty, he state Supreme Court says.. When the court on Monday upheld lames Neil Tucker's murder conviction )ut ordered a new sentencing trial, it reied on a previous South Carolina case hat helped redefine death penalty senencing across the country. Tucker was convicted of murder in he July 2,1992 death of 21-year-old Shanaon Mellon. He was accused of robbing ler home and shooting her three times in the head. I Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case stemming from the murder conviction of Jonathan Dale Simmons that juries must be told of parole ineligibility if prosecutors argue the future dan- In gerousness of the accused. Simmons was convicted of the July 1990 beating death of Josie Lamb during a burglary at the elderly woman's Columbia home. Since he previously had jjH been convicted of two violent crimes, state law meant that a second violent crime Lft rwviilsJ n/nroi* Kn olirriVvIn VYUU1U. lliCdll lie iajujlul lie vex ue wigiwiv ivi parole. Tucker also had been convicted of a previous rape in Utah, so he also could never be eligible for parole. Though Tucker will get a new sentencing trial for the murder of Mellon, he also faces the death penalty for killing Rose Lee "Dolly" Oakley. Oakley was shot to death in June 1992. Zelenka said Tucker was fleeing from authorities after the murder of Oakley when he killed Mellon and stole her car.. Two other Death Row inmates have sought new sentencing trials based on the Simmons case. The case has spurred several appeals on other states, too, Zelenka said. Charleston students rnnlH rprpivp W v? JL X/V/V/X F v conduct grades Associated Press CHARLESTON ? Students who misjehave in school could get a poor conluct grade on their report card soon unler a proposal being considered by the Charleston County Academic Policies md Instruction Committee. "What I see now is kids coming to school with a lack of respect for authorty and thafs the problem that this is atempting to address," said school board nember Larry Kobrovsky. The Student Accountability Act would equire all middle school and high school students to be graded for conduct. Elenentary school students already have such standards. Conduct grades would be based on vhether students respect their teachers, hemselves and their fellow students and ivhat efforts they make toward showing jood conduct. Grades from each teacher would be iverapied together tr> ppf, the smrp whirh vould appear on a student's report card alongside academic grades. The act proposes to create a l-to-5 scale with 1 representing poor behavior and 5 representing good conduct. Grades aelow 4 would earn sanctions, Kobrovsky said. The plan could reach the low-level roublemakers before their behavior gets hem suspended or expelled, said school aoard member Betty Varner, who coauhored the plan with Kobrovsky. This is mainly to get that middle-ofhe-road crowd that tries to see just how ar they can push your buttons," she said. The proposal must be approved by he committee and the full school board jefore it could be enacted. If the measure passes, Kobrovsky irnri Vip wonts tr> wrvrlr with arVinnl ct-_nff md teachers to devise the sanctions. Earner said some possible punishments ?uld include in-school suspension, Satirday school or requiring students to atend citizenship workshops. Kobrovsky got the idea from his grandither's report card from 1905-06 that icluded similar grades. "Every child can't get an A or B acaemically... but I don't see anybody who an't behave. If s a choice," he said, and lassage of the plan would show the dis , - a , , , . * For interstate calls. net is serious that your character counts i-soo-collect is nd behavior matters." The Gamecock | r more time in i But Houck ruled then there was no time to hold the trial fore school began. That opened the way for Ms. Faulkne become the first woman cadet in August, although she drop out after less than a week on campus. The trial has since been delayed twice. Houck indicated he would give lawyers more time, he rejected a request from Val Vojdik, the lawyer for Na Mellette, to put off the trial until January. Ms. Mellette taken Ms. Faulkner's place in the case. Houck didn't set a trial date Monday, but said he wj appeals courts to be able to have the case before another c of cadets enrolls at The Citadel next fall. Bffj$ /vj Jpp ^ w . mm * P :--f " HSIife i* ' ? ^ M *? j * , X You are Ti a hole in your pocket you r You dial 1 80< Your pan Know the Codi i Promotions excluded a registered trademark of MCI. * I mi inlay, November 7,199S ^/il +/\ mroliio^ r*r\ uiai IU vYaiuaiv \jc be- He took no action Monday on a Citadel request to limit r to the scope of the trial or another request from Ms. Mellette's ped attorneys to order The Citadel to process applications from women. He also didn't act on a request from Ms. Vojdik seeking But records on discipline for hazing or suicide attempts as a rency suit of hazing at The CitadeL has Ms. Vojdik said there have been allegations of hazing of gay students at The Citadel and she alleged that The Citadel ints system lessens respect for women, lass The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled states may have leadership programs for women if they don't lessen dignity "i^^^yjKijjjBiL iot a mooch. : renders you cH cinge eluctantly call the 0 CALL ATT. igs of guilt are TVLlTlTTt E ?. 1 800 CALL ATT. That's Your True ART Your True Choice i rnverse program or respect for women, Vojdik said. Citadel attorney Dawes Cooke objected to the request, saying the records have nothing to do with the Converse program. "Certainly they are not saying Converse has to produce as many suicide attempts as The Citadel," Cooke said. Houck said he wasn't sure the documents would produce any relevant evidence. But he told Cooke it's impossible to try the case without looking at the value of the Citadel system. "It seems to me you can't divorce from the trial all consideration of single-sex education," he said. W MI THE CODE5" I m Kinnni aiiiisiBiKM But when Hess, folks collect. rcil. i ChoiceT