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By AUSO JONES
"'ch' .n Citizen
TWo now before t courts
are challenging the practice of
all-white juri dec; Jing the fate of
Black defendants !D Michigan.
In federal court in Grand Rapid ,
Bnimeu Jon i king to have hi
conviction by an all-white jury. of
c
unarmed robbery overturned
becaus Bl c were y tematically
omi tted from Kalamazoo Cireui t
Court juries for a decade.
And in Berrien County, an
evidentiary hearing on jury
tampering in the case of Maurice
Carter i putting under crutiny a
ys tem that sees Blac s rarel y
called and routinely omitted from "0 E HUNDRED percent of
jury duty. the Blac in the Carter jury pool
Carter, an African American, were excused," Carter's lawyer
was convicted by an all-white jury Frank Mafrice aid. The hearin
of shooting a white police officer underway in Berrien County are to
despite his insistance of innocence how that irregularites urrounded
and the testimony of eyewitnes es the disn;ti aI of Blac in the Carter
that Carter was not the man. . jury pool. The hearing, ajourned
S , JURY, Pag A-4
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ByR�SEIGEL
OIT-Tb tropoUt.
Detroit American Civil Liberti
Union (ACLU) charged that Pro
posal "Aft violated equal protection
of the law.
Mark Brewer said the proposal
ould not ufficlentl deal it
inequality betw n e money liven
to riell poor a . '!be ealthler
a with high tax b could still
rai dditional dollars that are not
available to poor districts, like De
troit aoo Highland Park, where in
dustry 11m left.
The Metropolitan Detroit ACLU
, charges thi not only denies poor
children equal protection and equal
opportunity, but also equal protec
tion under the law es specified under
the corstituuon.
The ACW branch also char
Michigan Governor John Engl
with "insufficient disclosure" to the
public of the "exact impact" of th
proposal, "so that people can make
an informed decision."
BREWER PECIFICALLY WANDAF, AOOU MO ichiglnC
said there was a lack of information SAYING NO TO CASINOS-Approximately 150 Detroit residents 2 ballot. Mayoral candidate Dennis Archer (front, right) was also on
See EaUAL, A4 rallied Saturday, May 22 in Kennedy Square against Casino gambling hand. The rally was sponsore<fby Citizens Against Casino Gambling.
in Detroit. The issue of casino gambling in Detroit 'will be on the June
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CI
o
Day Car
o
By TUREKA TURK
partment of Social Services Child
Day care License Consultant, Edna
Samuel made an umcbeduled trip to
the Center January 28 and found
overcrowded cribs; co 15 jammed In a
play area during nap time, 25 chil
dren in 1050 sq. ft., four more than
the number allowed by DSS regula
tions; and a bus still in use a1 though
the Center was asked to top using
until a fire extingui her and window
C
n
r
repairs were fumished.
ing the place of a mi sing caregiver.
During the inspection, a 12
month-old boy went into "convul
sions as a result of a high fever", and
although caregivers responded
quickly, Samuel cited that "in ligbtof
the agency's continued reluctance to
assigning children to primary
caregiver, staff may have been more
knowledgeable of health and behav
ioral changes in this particular child
throughout the course of the day.
VOL. XV NO, 28 All l nt cu n u-c! I't'()/)It' I,. A f ft't' Pc o p!« MAY 30. 1993 - JUNE 5. 1993
IN ADDITION, DSS consultant
Samuel found that the center was in
noncompliance wi th DSS taff ratio
regulations, which assigns one pe
cific caregiver to a pecific group of
children.
Although, at the da of the in
pection, the' Director of the Infant
Department at Focus:HOPE was tak-
FORMER PR RAM director
Richard Collins and i tant pro ...
gram director Pen lop Mathis, both
Black, were in charge of the center at
the tim of the unscheduled visits.
And, al though th ir position
made them immediately respo ible
for compliance with DSS regula-
See CENlER, A4
Focus:HOPE's Center for Chil
dren is under investigation by the
Department of Social Services
�SS), and has been the victim of
understaffing, overcrowding, not
enough fuming and po ible corpo
rate poll tics.
According to compliance letters
dated February 10 and 23, 1993 De-
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How are
you going
to vote on
Proposal A?
SILL LEE- I am going to vote
no. It is not going to do anything
for schools in Detroit. I t is
designed to help those small
rural schools.
F'RANKIE TURNER- I am
voting no. The legislature
needs to find other ways to
finance the state's school
districts.
CYNTHIA BERRIEN�I am
voting no on the proposai It is
not- going to benefit people
such as myself who live in the
city of Detroit. .
GAIL TWITTY-I will vote no.
, I am not a property owner so
there is no benefit in it for me.
Also, I don't want to see the
sales tax raised.
I.