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A12 The Pantagraph Wednesday, October 26, 2005 www.pantagraph.com LAGRONE 0 7 4 'i If i'- i 1 I i "T--" 3 I give much more specific evidence of the need to do so." In May, the judge closed the hearing on information he reviewed from defense attorneys, material he said could prejudice potential jurors if it were reported in the media. The hearing focused on the admissibility of statements Christopher and Austin made to several adults and evidence of unspecified character attributes relating to LaGrone. Writing for the court, Justice Robert Steigmann disagreed with Peters on the issue of media coverage. "A speculative concern for how the media will use information should not justify the closure of criminal proceedings," said the justice. The ruling said jury selection should help the court determine if potential jurors have been unfairly influenced by hews coverage.

"Widespread publicity does not necessarily result in widespread knowledge among potential jurors of the facts reported, and voir dire is the preferred method for guarding against the effects of pre-trial publicity," said the court. The circuit court also failed to address alternatives to closing the proceedings, the ruling said, and the possibility of a change of venue should have been considered. FROM Al Defense attorneys maintain Christopher Hamm, 6, Austin Brown, 3, and Kyleigh Hamm, 23 months, died accidentally. LaGrone's trial is scheduled for next spring. The public will benefit from the appellate ruling, said Pantagraph President and Publisher Linda Lindus.

"We fought this not for the news industry but for our readers, the public. We have to maintain openness for our system to work its best," said Lindus, who was publisher of the Herald Review when the appeal was initiated. "We are extremely pleased with the ruling, not only because of the current case we had concerns about, but because this will be a standard, we hope, for other cases in Illinois for years to come," said Pantagraph Editor Terry Greenberg. Defense attorney Jeff Justice said he does not plan to appeal the ruling. "My job is to protect my client's right to get the fairest trial he can get," Justice said.

"This conflicted with the media's job. Judges decode conflicts. The appellate court felt that my approach was too drastic so they told Judge Peters to not close the hearing unless I "Kids need to understand tile way it is now is not the way it always was," said James Shaw, principal of Fairview Elementary School in Normal. "The students' reactions are amazement. They are angry anyone had to be treated that way We talk them through their emotions about it," added Mary Kay Scharf, principal at Irving Elementary School in Bloomington.

But they learn. Some Fairview students shared their knowledge: "The (Montgomery bus system) boycott lasted 381 days," said Bronzi Owens, 7. River Flot, 6, talked about Parks' refusal to give up her seat, arrests, and Martin Luther King's march on Selma. Jasmyn Thomas, 8, remembered her first-grade teacher reading her class a book about Parks; 7-year-old Ashlyn Mil-lett recalled using puppets to act out the bus boycott. And Ariyan Harrington, 7, smiled and looked to his friend.

"If she hadn't given up her seat, I couldn't be sitting here next to River (Flot)." Irving students Bailei John-son-Durbin, 9, and Sandra Pacheco, 10, shared the lessons they learned about Parks. "She was brave person. I'm sad Rosa Parks died, because I really wanted to meet her," said Bailei. Sandra, who is Hispanic, said she maybe wouldn't be in school in some of her black and white friends if it weren't for Parks. "What she did wasn't just for black people, it was for everybody," she said.

PARKS FROM Al Of Montgomery's black residents living without the bus system for a year, she said, "The very fact these things were happening (in the South) opened the idea to us that we could change things." Before that, "we didn't go into most restaurants. We knew what we could and could not do, which dentist we could see, which doctor." Student help The civil rights movement got help, in part, from college students. The year Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Pruyne got a new renter at his home: Donald McHenry. The future U.S. ambassador to the United Nations arrived on campus and organized its first chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Only one wing of one dorm was open to black students, and then only females. AH other minorities had to rent rooms in homes, and they didn't always find open doors. McHenry and his fellow students drafted a "covenant of open occupancy," so landlords would disregard skin color. "They took it around to the 295 households that rented, but only five would agree to it," said Pruyne. McHenry and other students helped desegregate restaurants and barbershops in town, said Pruyne.

"Before Rosa, there wasn't a OVERTURNED FROM Al With a pending case for drug possession, Hill said prosecutors initially refused to acknowledge the wrongful conviction. But during a hearing Tuesday, prosecutors vacated Ea-son's conviction for failing to register. Eason was placed on two years' probation for the drug possession. "The law works in mysterious ways," McLean County Circuit Judge Ronald Dozier told Eason during the hearing. "I'm glad we got this straightened out before it got too much further down the line." Rick Hector, spokesman for the Illinois State Police, said there's an investigation to determine how Eason ended up on the sex offender registry.

State police are provided information about known sex offenders so another law enforcement agency likely is to blame, Hector said. Mark Messman, the county's chief felony prosecutor, said he's unsure why Eason was charged or convicted of the crime. By looking at the original sex offense, either the prosecutor or public defender assigned to, his case could have recognized hp's not required to register. S'Making good charging decisions is pne of the most important things we do here," Messman said. "It's a system run by people and mistakes can happen.

Somewhere along the line, somebody should have caught this." v. Eason, who says he knows he hasn't made the best decisions in life, said being listed as a sex offender has been a terrible stigma during the last three years. He was originally', forced to register after being paroled from prison for dealing cocaine in 2002. just tired of dealing with it," Eason said. "It just made my life miserable.

I've been through a lot over this. I've lost jobs, my house. Police harass me. Prosecutors call me child molester in open court. I couldn't even go out in public without having people thinking I'm a sex offender." Eason said a lawsuit against the state and perhaps even the county could be forthcoming.

He's working on retaining an attorney, and says McLean County won't be spared just because prosecutors did the right thing by overturning his wrongful conviction. "They know that something was wrong. That's why they gave me the deal," Eason said after leaving the courthouse with one less felony on his record. "They think I'm just going to go away. No.

This is just the Associated Press Rosa Parks is shown in Montgomery, on April 22, 1998, at the groundbreaking of the Rosa Parks Library at Troy State University in Montgomery. Parks died Monday. lot of challenging that," he said. In February 1989, Parks was to attend an ISU dedication of the Rosa Parks Conference Room in Watterson Towers, but canceled due to illness. Hard to believe Youngsters today find segregation nearly impossible to imagine.

Parks' story is a staple for primary grades' curriculum just for that reason, say educators. IDENTITY FLU FROM Al An answer for some people could be the health department's 12 community flu shot clinics, which begin today at Miller Park Pavilion in Bloomington and end Nov. 29. The vaccine will be offered to county residents age 50 and older and to those younger than 50 with a chronic disease or immune system disorder verified by a physician. Previously, appointments were being made only for those 65 and older and those at highest risk of influenza.

"Unlike last year, it is. abundantly clear that anyone" wanting a flu shot will be able to obtain one this year," health department director Bob Keller said in a prepared statement. Appointments must be scheduled by calling (309)888-5397. OSF St. Joseph Medical Center received another shipment Tuesday and has about half of its order of 8,870 doses.

Patients of OSF Medical Group offices in Bloomington-Normal may call their doctor's office to schedule an appointment, spokeswoman Pam Meiner said. Part of that order also will go to employees who take care of acutely ill patients. BroMenn Regional Medical Center in Normal and BroMenn Medical Group offices throughout Central Illinois expected to receive their flu vaccine orders by the end of the month. "With great frustration, we have heard nothing (from the vaccine supplier)," spokeswoman Madonna Wilkins said. "We're still playing the waiting game." the United States at age 8.

She described her as a very pleasant, sweet woman. Kotte said investigators do not think someone -is preying on college students in Normal, but declined to say if police believe someone who knows Adeyooye is responsible for her disappearance. Adeyooye's car, a green 1996 Toyota Corolla with license plate LBG927, still is missing. Though police initially fielded numerous tips about sightings of Adeyooye's car, Kotte said the volume has decreased, and none of the tips have yielded new information. been issued in Adeyooye's disappearance, Kotte said, and identification of the body would not alone be enough to lead to arrests.

Investigators continued their search in case the body in Mississippi is not that of the 21-year-old, and-Kotte said "there's always hope" she will return alive. Adeyooye, a senior in clinical laboratory science, was on track to graduate this year. ISU President Al Bowman previously said the woman was planning for an internship in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines. Nwani said her niece was born in Nigeria and moved to FROM Al Normal police have not received reports of any other unidentified bodies, Kotte said. Newton County Sheriff Jackie Knight said the former chicken house was being used to store hay, and the entire wood-frame structure burned Friday morning.

He said the building was about 30 feet wide and about 75 feet long. Knight said the body was badly burned and was not visibly identifiable. No arrest warrants have Today'sWeather Todav Saturday Sunday High Low High Low I'-'V. Hiah Low 5-DAY GLANCE High Low '59 38 Thursday Kd High Low X' 56 35, Partly cloudy and cool. 1mA 57 36 1 58 41 4 55 34 Mostly cloudy and cool.

Partly cloudy and seasonable. Partly sunny and seasonable. Mostly sunny and cool. RANSON'S EH LOCAL OUTLOOK By Lee Ranson, WEEK-TV We are looking for some more sunshine today, but it will still be a bit cool. Our Twin City forecast is partly sunny, with high famnQratumc NATIONAL FORECAST REGIONAL FORECAST in the I.

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