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Page A6 The Spectrum State Wednesday, May 5, 1999 Kehoe, Lee convicted of racketeering, murder 7Mf Spencer TireyAP Under heavy guard, Danny Lee (top, in prison clothes), and Chevie Kehoe (bottom, in prison clothes), leave the federal courthouse in Little Rock, Monday, after they were convicted of conspiracy, racketeering and murder. their bodies. As a clerk read the guilty verdicts on all five counts. Kehoe watched attentively, hands clasped on the table in front of him. Lee looked down, swallowed hard and chewed his gum.

Lee's mother, Debra Lea Graham of Yukon, closed her eyes and wept quietly. Afterward, she told a reporter, "Don't even approach me." Mrs. Mueller's mother. Earlene Branch, and Mrs. Mueller's sister, Kimma Gurel, both wept.

The jury is to return Thursday to hear testimony for the sentencing phase of the trial, now in its 10th week. Jurors will decide between the death sentence and life in prison without parole. The case is the first death penalty case in the federal courts of the Eastern District of Arkansas. Mrs. Branch said afterward that she and her daughter.

Mrs. Gurel, would testify during the sentencing phase. She said she and Mrs. Gurel had ambivalent feelings about the death penalty before Mrs. Mueller's murder, but now would like to see both men get the death sentence.

"It's hard to be a Christian and think of killing somebody," Mrs. Man arrested in Cedar City may get death sentence By PEGGY HARRIS Associated Press LITTLE ROCK. Ark. Two alleged white supremacists sat expressionless Tuesday as they listened to a federal court clerk read guilty verdicts against them on racketeering, conspiracy and three murder charges. Chevie Kehoe of Colville, and Daniel Lee of Yukon, both 26.

face possible death sentences from the jury of nine blacks and three whites that convicted them of plotting to overthrow the federal government and set up a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest. Included in their crimes, the jury found, were the January 1996 murders of Arkansas gun dealer William Mueller, his wife Nancy and her 8-year-old daughter. Sarah Powell. Bodies of the three were found in a backwater of the Illinois Bayou in Pope County, with bags duct-taped over their heads and rocks taped to Branch said. "But I don't see any other answer.

I don't want them out influencing anyone else." However, she also expressed compassion for Mrs. Graham, saying, "I know she loved her son as much as 1 loved my daughter, and I know she's hurting, too." Jurors got the case Friday afternoon and deliberated a total of about 13 hours before reluming the verdicts. Before their decision, they reviewed transcripts of two key prosecution witnesses Kehoe's mother. Gloria Kehoe, and his brother, Cheyne Kehoe and they watched a videotape of a 1997 Ohio shootout with police. The brothers met up in Utah after fleeing that shootout.

Cheyne Kehoe eventually turned himself into authorities in Colville, and told federal authorities his brother could be found working a ranch in Beryl Junction, Utah. Chevie was eventually arrested in Cedar City. To find Kehoe and Lee guilty, the jury had to find that an "enterprise" existed and that it included at least two crimes. MM Prosecutors said the enterprise involved a 1995 robbery of Washington couple Jill and Malcolm Friedman; the 1995 murder of Jeremy Scott in Idaho; a 1995 robbery of Mueller, the 19 robbery and murders of the Muellers; the April 29, 19, bombing of the Spokane City Hall; the August 19 murder in Idaho of Jon Cox of Sacramento, Calif; and the attempted murders of police officers Robert Martin and Rick Wood in a Feb. 15, 1997, shootout in Ohio.

Defense lawyers argued that while Kehoe and Lee may have had offensive beliefs, they didn't act criminally on them or have the means to do what prosecutors claim. They also said the prosecution's time frame for the Mueller murders didn't fit evidence regarding the whereabouts of Lee and Chevie Kehoe. Mrs. Gurel said word of the verdicts will be passed on to Sarah Powell's father, Michael Powell of Marysville, Wash. "He's still pretty broken up" about his daughter's death, she said.

She said the case was an illustration of carrying beliefs to extremes. "I believe in freedom of religion, but a religion that teaches people to hate is not a good religion," she said. "I believe in freedom of speech, but when it gets to magazines and books about how to make bombs and assassinate people 100 refugees from Kosovo headed to Utah Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY The first of over 100 Kosovo refugees expected to come to Utah will begin arriving this week. Catholic Community Services resettlement director Lina Smith said the first two families will be housed in rented apartments in Salt Lake City. As more families come, they will be spread throughout the state.

The United States has agreed to take in 20.000 of the hundreds of thousands of people who have been forced out of the Yugoslav province of Kosovo by the war there. Smith said more than 100 are expected to come to Utah. The first two families have between five and seven members each and have no relatives or friends in Utah. Catholic Community Services, which handles 500 refugees a year, will meet the families at the airport with translators. They will be taken to apartments, which will be furnished and stocked with food.

"We have landlords we've been working with that have told us they can put people in their apartments," Smith said. However, she said her agency is concerned that it won't have enough beds and other furniture, or pots and pans, silverware, towels, or pillows for the families. The Kosovars will have refugee status, she said, which means they will have Social Security cards, food stamps and Medicaid. They will have help becoming acclimated and looking for work. Catholic Community Services has matching grants available to provide the families either cash assistance or help pay their wages after they find jobs.

"They will be expected to be just like any other refugees: to get a job and to adjust to the community and assimilate to America," Smith said. State In Brief Utah House OKs local broadcasts on satellite TV SALT LAKE CITY Rural Utah and Idaho would finally get local TV broadcasts by satellite under legislation movina'in Congress. The House Tuesday voted 422-1 to approve a measure allowing satellite TV companies to join cable TV in offering network and local TV broadcasts. Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah.

a co-sponsor, hailed the bill as a victory for rural residents who don't receive cable or good TV reception. The measure would overturn an 11 -year-old law that prohibits satellite companies from offering network stations. "Too many of my constituents have come to me and said they are tired of using a clothes hanger as an antenna in another room because their satellite doesn't provide channels," Cannon said. The bill was sent to the Senate, where Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. already has channeled similar legislation through his committee.

Hatch attacks violent music and video games SALT LAKE CITY In the wake of the Columbine High School massacre, Sen. Orrin Hatch is calling for a federal probe into how the makers of violent music and video games are targeting young people. Hatch said Tuesday that he plans to push legislation to prevent youths from buying video games rated as appropriate only for older, "mature" players. "Few people would argue that cigarettes, alcohol or X-rated or NC-17 rated movies should be advertised in children's magazines. Why should such violent video games?" he said, adding that the two youths who fatally shot 13 others before killing themselves in Littleton played violent video games obsessively.

Funeral held for slain missionary MORGAN Jonathan Philip Barrett, killed while on a Mormon mission in Africa, believed there were no accidents in life, said his sister. Vanette Stagg. "He had no doubts about Heavenly Father's plan, and he knew his purpose," she said Monday at his funeral. More than 2,000 people turned out to pay their final respects to Barrett at the stake center. The chapel and gymnasium were packed, as were the overflow rooms with closed-circuit television sets.

Barrett was stabbed in the chest April 24 in what appeared to be a random attack as he and a companion walked to a teaching appointment in Abidjan. Ivory Coast. County asks judge to shred video store records SALT LAKE CITY Utah County has asked a federal judge to shred Movie Buffs' customer records. With that, the county hopes to close its books in the case of Larry Peterman, the chain's general manager who was acquitted in March of 15 misdemeanor counts of distributing pornography. Customers who rented adult films from Movie Buffs' Lehi and American Fork stores were concerned that police and prosecutors had their names and could release them.

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