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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1989)
just news THE OPEN DOOR Judge refuses light Our House sentence for Doney's killer J NEW AGE CENTER We have the largest lesbian book selection in Portland! / / m im m , Meditation and Chat with Autographing ISHVARA Sunday, February 5, 3-5 pm Katpy Kotz, author of the new lesbian erotic book Sunday, 10 a.m. Wednesday & Friday 7:30 p.m. First Stroke oining the growing list of Portland AIDS hospices is Our House. A licensed foster care home, Our House provides long-term living arrangements and supportive care, as arrell B. Monical, charged with well as gay care for persons who need strangling and slitting the throat of Eugene Doney in Couch Park last February, occasional outside help. With the support o f its volunteer staff. Our may get another day in court. A Multnomah County Circuit Court judge refused last month House is able to offer a wide range of services to accept a plea arrangement for the case, say including a medical social worker, counselling ing the agreed-upon sentence was too lenient. for residents, families and friends, physical and Monical, 19, who was charged with murder occupational therapy, a chiropractor, and a masseuse. in the case, pleaded guilty to the lesser crime of manslaughter last December, noting on the plea Our House provides personal care with agreement that, “ I caused the death of Eugene nursing supervision, nutritious meals, and Doney while under the influence of alcohol spiritual guidance, while allowing the after he accosted me and atiempted to have resident’s primary physician to oversee his or homosexual contact with me, while under the her medical needs. The hospice is non-profit influence of an extreme emotional disturbance.” and governed by a board o f directors. Monical’s attorney, Wendell R. Birkland, For more information contact Our House, and Deputy District Attorney Charles M. Kokes PO Box 42381, Portland, OR 97242; telephone had agreed to recommend a maximum sentence 234-0175. of 20 years in prison, with a five-year minimum K.C. de Gutes term before Monical would be eligible for parole. But Judge Stephen S. Walker refused to approve the sentence, saying it was too light. “ I didn’t think it was appropriate . . . I thought a five-year minimum was frankly too short a time,” he said in an interview. Walker said he favored the maximum sentence for man slaughter one, 20 years in prison with a n February 22, sixteen of the original 18 minimum of ten years served before attaining persons arrested ‘‘for improper position on parole eligibility. a highway” on the Burnside Bridge will have Birkland asked that the case be assigned to a their day in court. The other two had separate different judge for sentencing, and, at press trials earlier — Clinton de Longpre pleaded time, it had been sent back to presiding judge guilty and charges against Sweed Short were Donald H. Londer for re-assignment. Birkland dropped. refused further comment on the case. The remaining defendants will plead not Under the plea agreement statute, if a judge guilty, according to Frodo Okalum, one of the refuses to approve the recommended sentence, sixteen. The trials are scheduled at the Mult the defendant may withdraw his or her guilty nomah County Courthouse on February 22, at 2 plea, and the case may go to trial, according to pm. A demonstration in support of the Bum- Marilyn Curry, a deputy district attorney. 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