Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:30:30 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;AMERICAN SCENE;SOUTH S=NEW STORY Miami cop's trial moved to Tallahassee TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The trial of a Miami policeman whose killing of a black motorcyclist touched off riots in 1989 was sent yesterday to Tallahassee, ending what Florida's Supreme Court called a judicial "pingpong game." The case against William Lozano had been bounced from Miami, to Orlando, to Tallahassee and back to Orlando. "The interests of justice require a rule designed to inhibit trial courts from engaging in a 'pingpong game' by transferring a case back and forth, thereby jeopardizing the rights of the parties and undermining public confidence in the judicial function," the court said in a unanimous ruling. The Hispanic officer is charged with manslaughter in the shooting of a motorcyclist and subsequent death of the motorcyclist's passenger in a crash. Three days of violence erupted in Miami after the slayings. Mr. Lozano's first conviction in Miami was overturned on appeal. S=NEW STORY Man convicted in AIDS exposure case HOUMA, La. - A jury took 12 minutes to convict a man of violating a 5-year-old Louisiana law against intentionally exposing anyone to the AIDS virus. Salvadore Gambarella, 28, could get up to 10 years in prison. He still faces charges he risked infecting the 2-year-old son Darla Trosclair bore him. She is infected with the virus; the child is not infected. Earlier Wednesday, Gambarella testified he told Miss Trosclair before their affair began that he carried the AIDS virus. He said he tested positive for the virus in 1989. Prosecutors said they would try to double Gambarella's punishment under Louisiana's habitual-offender law. He has a prior conviction for burglary. A hearing on an American Civil Liberties Union challenge of the law is set for Dec. 2. The ACLU claims the law is unconstitutionally vague and violates the right to privacy. Twenty-five states have laws against transmitting the AIDS virus. S=NEW STORY Informant convicted of lying about Hunt aide MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A jury convicted an informant of lying to the FBI when she said Gov. Guy Hunt's press secretary wanted to buy 11 pounds of cocaine. Hilda Teague was convicted Wednesday of falsely telling FBI agents she met with the Hunt aide, Terry Abbott, three times this year to arrange the drug buy for $145,000. Her claims came amid an ongoing ethics investigation of Mr. Hunt. Mrs. Teague, 28, faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each of two perjury counts. Sentencing in U.S. District Court was scheduled for Feb. 10. She is free until then. Mr. Abbott, 31, said the verdict was "a relief." He is suing Mrs. Teague for slander and will soon expand the lawsuit to include Cullman County, where the sheriff's department initiated the drug investigation, said Trey Granger, one of Mr. Abbott's attorneys. S=NEW STORY Man finds out he'll get $1 million pension GASTONIA, N.C. - A man who worked for a newspaper for 66 years without knowing he would receive a pension has learned he is entitled to nearly $1 million under a plan the company has since abandoned. Bob Huggins, 86, a part-time security guard at the Gaston Gazette, learned last week that he would receive the windfall from a fund invested for employees. "That's staggering, brother, that's staggering," he said. Mr. Huggins took a $13-a-week job in the Gazette's composing room in 1926. When the Gazette changed to computer-generated type in 1974, Mr. Huggins, then 68, went to work as a guard. Mr. Huggins, who has taken a leave of absence from his job, plans to give at least a tenth of the money to his church. Mr. Huggins plans to spend some of the money on a plane ticket to San Diego to visit his daughter and granddaughter. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM