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VOL. 20 NO. 12 Week of June 27 - July 4,1985 20 cents per copy
Life Sentences
Without Parole
by Governor Mario R. Cuomo
In my annual message to
the Legislature on January 9
of this year, 1 said: "If the
votes are not,, there for the
death penalty again this
year, the legislature should
not go home without con­sidering
life without parole."
. The votes were not there
again for the death penalty.
However, 99 Votes were there in the State Assembly for my
Life Without Parole legislation~a tough measure that >yill
make it impossible for murderers to walk free after serving a
25 year sentence, as present law now permits.
Murderers who commit the most heinous types of crimes
in this state must be given a clear and forbidding message.
Potential murderers must be made to understand that such
conduct on their part will not carry with it a sentence with a
loophole. The citizens of New York State must rest assured
that anyone who commits such anactwill never again walk
the streets—potentially to rob or kill again.
Mayor Edward L Koch of New York Gity~a strong advo­cate
of the death penalty-is in total agreement with me and
the overwhelming number of Assembly Menibers both for
and against the death penalty, about the need for such a law
mandating life sentences without parole for niurderers. He
has joined with me in calling upon State Senate Majority
Leader Warren Anderson of Binghamton to permit the
Senate to consider and debate the Life Without Parole
proposal.
the approvalof Senate Bill 2470 is all that stands between
murderers and the tough sentence of life-in-prison without
the possibility of parole. The State Senate holds the key to
the jailhouse door for these criminals. 1 urge you to contact
your State Senator and ask them to vote in favor of Senate
Bill 2470.
Life Without Parole legislation is within our reach.
Republicans and Democrats alike supported the measure in
the State Assembly. Only the Republicans in the New York
State Senate stand between the people of New York and the
toughest anti-crime bill in our history.
As the Senate has demonstrated intelligence and leader­ship
in adopting criminal justice measures aimed at making
jury selection more efficient and expanding alternatives to
incarceration, I ask you to call upon the Senate majority to
allow the State to jail its worst offenders permanently.
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Tough Screening Law
County JExecutive Francis T. Purcell, seated,
signs tough new county legislation, which man­dates
fingerprinting and screening school bus
drivers and workers in child day care centers.
Looking on are, left to right. North Hempstead
Supervisor John Kiernan; Judy Eisman of Great
Neck and Connie Santangelo of North Merrick,
members of the Parents Coalition for School Bus
Safety; and Hempstead Presiding Supervisor
Thomas Gulotta. Nassau is the first county in the
state to adopt a local law requiring that people
working with children be screened for prior crim­inal
convictions.
"The Convincer" Is Here
Bethpage High School students had the opportunity to experience the effectiveness of safety belts through Geico
Insurance Company's ''Convincer". Several students can be seen trying out the device and actually feeling how safety
belts protect a person. The seat is moving at approximately 10 MPH when it is abrupty brought to a stop simulating
an automobile accident. About 150 students tried the device and almost all came away "convinced" that safety belts
are effective even at 10 MPH! '
Keep The Lid On, Or Else...
God and Soldier
All men adore
In times of peril
And not before
When the trouble
is over
And the peril
is past •
God and the soldier*
Always come last
Anonymous
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Last week the Oyster Bay Town Board
unanimously adopted a tougher open-container
law, according to Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
Joseph Colby.
"Following a public hearing which was held on
June 4, 1985," Colby said, "the Town Board has
approved the adoption of a new law.which will
give the Nassau County Police tighter guidelines*
in their efforts to control public drinking and
which stipulates stringent penalties for the posses­sion
of any open container of alcoholic beverages
in public places within the Town of Oyster Bay."
Drafted jointly by the Town Attorneys from
Oyster Bay, Hempstead and North Hempstead,
the new ordinance includes provisions to meet
current judicial criteria in order to withstand
court challenges.
Colby noted that,"the new law clarifies the
issues raised by the courts by spiecifically stating
that possession of an open or unsealed container
of any alcoholic beverage is presumptive evidence
of intent to consume its contents."
Penalties under the new law include fines for
first offenses of not less than $25 nor more than
$250 or imprisonment for up to 10 days, or both
fines and imprisonment, and for second and sub­sequent
offenses, a fine of not less than $50 nor
more than $250 or imprisonment for up to 15
days, or both fines and imprisonment!
"The new law, which is uniform throughout
Nassau County," Colby said, "will give the police
tighter controls in order to curb incidents of dis­orderly
conduct and vandalism and should also
.help to reduce potential incidents of Driving
While Intoxicated."