NEWS BRIEFS
- Urban League to ask
President Clinton to hold national summit to
develop a national code of conduct for police
officers.
- How much did the
 mistrial of officers
Mullholland and Albert cost us? Read the expense
accounts made public yesterday.
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FULL STORIES
Urban League asks Clinton to hold
summit
After
the rash of civil disobedience incidents that have
occurred throughout the United States over the past
several months as a response to what is being viewed as a
police brutality epidemic, the national Urban League is
requesting that President Clinton hold a national summit
on police misconduct.
Hugh
B. Price national Urban League President issued the
request at a noon news conference at the National Press
Club in Washington D.C. Among attendees to appear were
Esther L Bush president of the Urban League of Pittsburgh
Narves and Jonny Gammage Sr. the parents of slain
motorist Jonny Gammage, and other political and community
leaders.
The Cost of a Mistrial
Last month when two jurors
cried foul and told on Court of Common Pleas Judge David
R. Cashman for treating jurors to the best food taxpayer
money could buy the media downplayed the matter and the
judge said "I was joking".
Yesterday
expense accounts were made public.
- Among the
charges rang up by jurors were:
348
long-distance calls totaling nearly $4600
One juror rang up 49
calls, including 13 in one day costing a total of
$511.28.
Another led spending dialing up 35
long-distance calls costing $538.81,
including $88.34 for a
single call.
Dinner the first night cost $807.21
at the Steelhead Grill in their downtown Marriott
hotel.
Three jurors ordered lobster, at $36,
while other chose entrees ranging from
$14 to $24. The following night jurors also had
lobster, steak, Manhattans, daiquiris and
martinis for dinner.
On Columbus Day judge Cashman treated jurors to a
cruise on the Gateway Clipper Fleet costing $452.85.By the third day
the jurors had been cut down to $18
meals.
One
juror watched 11 movies
totaling $105.38.
Total
tab picked up by the taxpayers -==>
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