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larch 1.2002 news D avid W. O wens wmm P.C. & A S S O C I A T E S serving the community since 1975 COLORADO A t t o r n e y s a t L aw David W. Owens Brady M. Ricks *0/ counsel Roger Gray* Richard A. Crews’ t Drew C. Hunsinger tlicensed O regon, Washington , and Colorado 101 SW MAIN, SUITE 700 • Portland, Oregon 97204 503°224°3 100 ❖ LANDLORD/TENANT LAW • Concentration on Landlord Rights ❖ FAMILY LAW • Domestic Partnerships • Formation & Dissolution • Adoptions • Divorce & Visitation ❖ WILLS & TRUSTS • Probate & Trusts • Conservatorships & Guardianships • Advance Directives ❖ REAL ESTATE • Home Purchase Reviews ❖ BANKRUPTCY • Advising Businesses & Individuals ❖ BUSINESS FORMATION & LITIGATION • Corporations, Partnerships, LLCs & LLPs • Commercial Collections of large accounts ❖ CRIMINAL ❖ TAX ISSUES & APPEALS ❖ PERSONAL INJURY • Auto Accidents The/ Potter’* Houte/M ¿niatKe*' 3830 SE 62nd Ave. • Portland, OR 97206 • (503) 775-5024 www.pottershouseministries.org e -m ail: fam ily lifecenter @potters hous em in is tries. org federal civil rights claim was filed Feb. 7 in Denver to ensure jus tice is served after the brutal February 2001 beating of Kyle Skyock, a 16-year- old from Rifle. The Garfield County Dis trict Attorney’s office has not yet charged the suspects with any crime, a decision that has come under heavy public fire. Sk yock was found unconscious on the roadside by a jogger after allegedly Kyle Skyock holds hands with his mother, Sharlene, as his father, Mike, being beaten by four stands next to them at St. M ary’s Hospital in G rand Junction, Colo. teen-age boys be cause they thought he was gay. After leaving a legislation also promotes the use of restorative jus party with them, he said the car soon halted, and tice and law enforcement training. he was pulled from it and thrown to the ground. “The plea bargain does not resolve the out The hoys quickly overpowered Skyix:k, kick standing issue of whether this murder will be clas ing him and ramming his head into the bumper. sified as a hate crime,” said Kathy Keyes, Four Cor They threw him back in the vehicle and ners Gay and Lesbian Alliance for Diversity board punched him some more, then pulled him out chairwoman. “Pauline Mitchell deserves to know and kicked him again. that, and so dix» the rest of the community that “Faggot,” Skyock said he heard. “1 want a i Fred was a part of. If you ltxik at the federal defin turn with the bat! G ive it to me. It’s my turn, it’s ition of a hate crime— a crime motivated all or in my turn.” part by bias— it seems clear from witness’ state ments that Fred’s murder was bias-motivated." Police initially believed that Skyix:k was dmnk and that his injuries were a result of “falling down.” Yet doctors said he suffered a NATIONAL X Dixon O sbum , Servicemembers Legal fractured skull, a circle o f bum blisters on his shoulder, a black eye, three broken ribs and ^ Defense Network executive director, criti cized a cartoon by Phillip Thom pson appearing bruises in the shape of a fixit and a 2-by-4. in the Feb. 11 issue o f Marine Corps Times as <• offensive and disrespectful to military personnel everal organizations expressed cautious opti and called on editors to issue an apology. mism at the announcement that Shaun Mur The drawing, titled “In the Trenches,” refers to phy plead guilty to second-degree murder Feb. 8 an Assixiated Press photo taken aboard the U SS in Cortez for killing a 16-year-old Navajo youth. Enterprise last year in which the phrase “Highjack Fred Martinez’s body was discovered June 21, This Fags" was scrawled across a bomb onboard 2001, almost a week after he was chased, blud the aircraft carrier. Osbum called on Navy leaders geoned and left to die of blcxxl loss and expo to hold accountable servicemembers who were sure. A witness is reported to have claimed Mur involved in writing the epithet. phy bragged he “beat up a fag." In response, Rear Adm. S.R. Pietropaoli issued In exchange for the plea, a first-degree mur a statement calling the graffiti “inappropriate." He der charge was dropped. A sentencing hearing is pledged the Navy’s commitment to ensuring such scheduled to begin May 16. statements were not used in the future. “Nothing will bring back my son,” Paula Thom pson’s cartoon, which depicts a serv- Mitchell said. “ I hope that we will find out what icemember writing on a bomb, includes the fol really happened during the sentencing hearing. lowing language, which O sbum says clearly I hope that Shaun Murphy will be punished for implies the artist considers anti-gay animus this crime." acceptable in the armed forces: “Dear {Cen If the case had gone to trial, Mitchell might sored], We can’t write ‘inappropriate’ notes on have had to spend weeks listening to the details of bombs anymore, but we’re still going to kick her son’s murder, being cross-examined and listen your (Censored], you |Censor|ing (Censored]. ing to a defease attorney minimize the violent Love, U .S.M .C .” assault. “We hope first and foremost that the plea Osbum added: “Our men and women in uni bargain reduces the amount of trauma and emo form deserve better than the second-class treat tional hardship that Pauline Mitchell and Fred’s ment this cartoon advocates. T he message family have to endure and that they feel that— to behind this cartoon— that anti-gay sentiment is the extent possible within the law— this feels like j acceptable in our military— contradicts Penta accountability and gon policy. Mr. Thom pson In th e T r e n c h e s • * some form of justice," would, we hope, never suggest said Denise de Percin, that a racial epithet or disparag DEAR! ctNtontp | Colorado Anti- ut cun t write nrm Tf." N otts on ing remark against religious BO M BS ANYMORE but WERE 5UU Violence Program groups is acceptable.” GOING TO KICK YOOR HHEE3. YOU | cw « m > o | |KM T Ittutptto I, executive director. LWE. U6.M.C. The Colorado Sen •s* ate is considering state r he National Education Rep. 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