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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2016 Gearhart: City receives letters on vacation-rental issue daily Continued from Page 1A would also be required. Owners would be required to provide neighbors within a 200-foot radius with contact information, a parking plan and the city website where the information is also posted. “Good neighbor” policies and emergency information Sweet said the city is receiving letters on the short- term rental issue every day. One letter in the Wednes- day City Council packet urged the board to “enact regulations that are being considered.” ‘Meat left on bone’ Another advised the coun- cil to consider the noise, safety and destruction of “the neigh- borhood fabric,” as a result of short-term rentals. Property owners and rent- ers opposed to new rules said “a few disgruntled homeown- ers does not a problem make.” Others asked the council to consider “responsible home- owners who care about Gear- hart, their neighbors and take rentals seriously.” Sweet said he expects up to 50 people at Thursday’s 6 p.m. meeting at the ¿rehouse ² chosen as a location because of the anticipated larger crowd. “I think people should par- Trial: Roden could face death penalty Continued from Page 1A Judge Paula Brownhill said she will take the argu- ments and testimony into consideration and make a ruling within the next few weeks. Roden, who is facing the death penalty if convicted, watched the hearing via video link from prison, where he is serving an eight-year sentence for violating proba- tion from a previous domes- tic violence conviction. At one point, he became agitated with defense lawyers Conor Huseby and Robert Axford, and had to be muted. “I can’t believe you are Àipping a coin and throwing my life away,” he said. Expert testimony The prosecution called ¿ve expert witnesses Clat- sop County Medical Exam- iner JoAnn Giuliani; Dep- uty State Medical Examiner Clifford Nelson; Oregon State Police forensic sci- entist Chrystal Bell; Cath- leen Lang, who specializes in child abuse pediatrics; and Richard Fixott, a forensic odontologist. The defense did not call any witnesses, claiming their expert ² Janice Ophoven, a pediatric forensic pathologist ² was unavailable. Roden’s lawyers are basing their case on Ophoven’s claims that the children’s injuries were from a dangerous Àesh-eat- ing virus known as methicil- lin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. She says the toddler likely died from complications of the infec- tion, rather than from blunt- force trauma. The two broth- ers also showed signs of the infection, she said. Because signs of the infec- tion were never investigated, the defense wants Roden’s case dismissed. “In failing to do any meaningful testing to con¿rm the presence of a massive and deadly bacterial infection in this case, the state has failed Mr. Roden and put his life in jeopardy,” his lawyers wrote in a court ¿ling. Graphic evidence At the hearing, state experts said the infection was present on the chil- dren, but did not account for the physical abuse and bro- ken bones. Court documents reveal Evangelina Wing was found with injuries around her entire body, including two black eyes, a broken arm, bruises over her entire face and chest and hemor- rhaging around her head. Patrick Wing had a broken bone in his pelvic region and extensive bruising. Peydon Kahclamat-Harding made statements to doctors about people lighting paper on ¿re in his nose and ears. “The defense has a novel theory that Evangelina Wing’s death was caused by MRSA,” prosecutors wrote in a court document. “This is made up from whole cloth. They are trying to whitewash the terrible physical evidence that exists.” Peydon, who was 5 at the time, told investigators “they chained him and locked him in a cage like a dog.” Inves- tigators found a metal bed frame that was barred on the sides in the hallway, and pos- sibly used as a cage. In addi- tion, investigators believe the crawl space in the apartment may have been used to trap the children. Chrystal Bell, who doc- umented the bloodstain evi- dence at the scene, testi- ¿ed there was blood spatter in every room, including on holiday decorations and on the wall behind a Christmas tree. The ¿ndings told her the blood was in Àight and likely came from people of “shorter stature.” Bell said the spatter in the bathroom was not con- sistent with a story Roden told police about Evangelina falling from the toilet onto a child’s plastic potty. Prosecutors say the case relies heavily on the graphic evidence and expert opinion, since there are no eyewit- nesses other than the children and defendants. Dorothy Wing, 26, pleaded guilty earlier this year to ¿rst-degree manslaughter and two counts of ¿rst-de- gree criminal mistreatment. She was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison, con- tingent on her truthfully testi- fying at Roden’s trial. The prosecution believes the evidence points to Roden, while the defense says it points to Wing. Both Roden and Wing told investigators about incidents where Evangelina fell coming from a bus stop, fell off of a toilet and got in tussles with her broth- ers. Before her sentencing, Wing said, she wished she never left her children with Roden. Intellectually disabled Roden has pleaded not guilty to 15 charges. He is accused of aggravated mur- der for the intentional maim- ing or torture of the toddler and having a pattern and practice of assault. His defense lawyers argued at the hearing this week that he does not qualify for the death penalty because he is intellectually disabled. They explained how the Georgia native was held back in grade school and never graduated high school. When he lived with Dorothy Wing, the defense said, he gave her his money because he was unable to pay bills on time and handle his ¿nances. The defense said he always relied on Wing, and did not know the children needed medical attention. “The defendant in this case suffers from an inabil- ity to function in day-to-day life,” the lawyers wrote. If Roden was mentally disabled, the prosecutors said, they would agree he would not be eligible for the death penalty. But prosecu- tors do not believe he is men- tally disabled. Prosecutors noted he did poorly in school because of his bad behavior and delin- quency. As an adult, they say, he held a high-paying job working on bridges, includ- ing the Astoria Bridge. “He was a user (of women),” Deputy District Attorney Dawn Buzzard said. “That’s how he was able to get by.” ticipate, based on two of the more restrictive items in the proposal draft, only 35 avail- able permits and seven-day reservation blocks,” Sweet said. “That was added on fairly recently.” As for the rules that will eventually be adopted, “Any- thing is an option,” he said. “This is where we’re start- ing the discussion for the public meeting,” Sweet said. “We’ll see what survives and gets forwarded to the City Council. There will be meat left on the bone for the Plan- ning Commission to adjust prior to pushing it up to the council.” Awards: ‘This award really is for everybody’ Continued from Page 1A Lum, the dealership’s market- ing and community outreach manager, helped oversee the recent restoration of the Asto- ria Column. “They didn’t do it on their own, but they were the team captains and made our town a little bit better,” former Mayor Willis Van Dusen said in a statement. The women ² third-gen- eration Chinese-Americans ² serve on local boards and committees, and have set up community giving programs for their employees. Lum’s programs focus on children, education and health-and- wellness issues. “Who would have thought that Dave Lum could produce daughters like this?” Christine Lolich, vice president of the the- ater’s board, wisecracked. “I mean, we knew Shirley could, right?” Taking on the world The Lum sisters took over the family business from their parents, Dave and Shirley Lum, who orig- inally founded Lum’s in 1969 as Toyota of Asto- ria. Together, the couple raised their daughters to be community-minded, busi- ness-savvy and “ready to take on the world,” Hel- ena Barbey Lankton, the award presenter, said. “On a national scale, almost 90 percent of fam- ily businesses fail on the transfer from the first gen- eration to the next,” Lank- ton said. Though many local busi- ness have beat those odds, “what is unique in this situ- ation is that an automobile dealership has success- fully transitioned down, not to just a woman, but to three women who hap- pen to be sisters involved in a highly predominantly male business, where they have taken charge, moved forward, flourished, while preserving, celebrating and advancing their proud Chinese heritage,” she continued. Women own and oper- ate only about 5 percent of dealerships, Lankton said. “Obviously, there’s more work to be done to get more women in the upper-level jobs. But we do need to cel- ebrate the success of those women shattering glass ceilings and changing the playing ¿eld,” she said. 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