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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars Ano stripes tuesday june 14,1988 rapist paroled in Calif returns to of a. Hometown Tampa Fla. A a convicted rapist whose release prompted outraged Calico Means to fight to keep him out of their communities during his yearlong parole there has come Back to his Hometown and he registered with Florida authorities monday in  Singleton gave his address to the Florida department of Low enforcement to comply with a Law requiring convicted felons entering the state to Register heir address  s met All the requirements of he statutes. As far As we re concerned we have no further involvement in this Mailer whatsoever said Jack Espinosa spokesman for the Hillsboro ugh sheriffs office. Sheriffs col. Cal ,.henderson said sin Singleton Lelon received his Florida Driver s License last  was convicted of raping a 15-year old Holch hiker chopping her arms off with an a and leaving her for dead along a Roadside near san Francisco in 1978. The 60-year-old Farmer merchant Seaman spent eight years of a 14-year sentence in a California prison. His parole ended in april and Singleton soon surfaced in the Tampa area where he grew up and still has  s relocation to the Forest Hills Sec lion in Northwest Tampa has some area Resi dents  Don t want Hal Type of individual living Here. We re concerned about the Young children and we re concerned about he Young girls living in the neighbourhood said Audrey Grimes a neighbor. The owner of the Home listed As Singleton s address told the Tampa Tribune i Don t know anything about  California residents mounted campaigns when their comr unites were mentioned As pos sible Homes during Singleton s parole. One town even filed a  year Florida correction officials refused a request from California officials to supervise Singleton s parole while he stayed with relatives in the Tampa area. Justices Rule for parents in polio vaccine lawsuit Washington a the supreme court ruled monday the government May be forced to  dam Ages when a vaccine in licenses causes the disease it was intended to prevent. By a 9-0 vote the justices rejected reap administration arguments that the government always should be shielded from lawsuits in such cases. In another Case the court agreed to judge the constitutionality of a new sentencing system for people convicted of Federal crimes. The court reinstated a suit by the parents of a Penn Sylvania boy who contracted polio after receiving a dose of federally approved vaccine. Justice Thurgood Marshall in his opinion for the supreme court Roundup court said governmental immunity from suit Only extends to instances in which an official exercises discretion or judgment. The discretionary function exception however docs not apply if the acts complained of do not involve the permissible exercise of policy discretion Marshall  a Federal policy leaves no room for an official to exercise policy judgment in performing a Given act or if the act simply does not involve the exercise of such judgment the government May be sued for causing personal injury Marshall  court revived a suit in behalf of polio victim Sevan Burkovitz. Who was less than three months old on May 10, 1979, when his paediatrician in Charleroi pa., gave him a dose of  drug manufactured by led Eric laboratories is a form of Sabin Oral vaccine. Morimune was licensed by the government in 1963.kevan was stricken with polio within a month and the . Communicable disease Center determined he contracted the disease from the vaccine. He is  Al Zed and deformed and breathes with the help of a  Berkovitz family contends that negligence by a government worker caused the child s polio. The parents said the vaccine approved by the government violated its own standards for safety and that policy making discretion by the government was not involved in approving the defective vaccine. The Reagan administration argued that even when an employee is negligent the government Agency that employs the worker May be using its discretion m approving the  department lawyers said thai if the govern ment can be sued in such cases in will be forced into becoming an insurer of vaccines and May withdraw from licensing  officials said Sabin Oral vaccine administered routinely to All children in the United states has All but eliminated polio even though each year a few who Lake the vaccine have Adverse reactions. Monday s ruling overturned a decision by the 3rd . Circuit court of appeals based in Philadelphia which threw out the Berkovitz suit last year. The appeals court held that discretion was involved when the government initially decided to verily test results by vaccine manufacturers thereby shielding the government from Spital Issue in Chr sentencing Case is whether the Vii sentencing commission s rules that took effect new. 1 May stand or must be thrown out. The Validity of the commission itself is also at  the time the court announces its decision expected sometime in 1989, thousands of defendant win have to be re sentenced regardless of which Way the court  other action the court armed police with new authority ruling that offi cers sometimes May Chase someone who starts run Nib at the sight of them even though they have no reason to suspect criminal conduct 11 unanimously ruled thai Michigan prosecutor May use As evidence the drugs dropped by � Man who started running when he spotted a police Cruner on Detroit Street. Declined to study an unprecedented Raci i Dee. Relation Case and refused to free Yon Ken  vials from having to Inte tale City schools and. Build subsidized housing to overcome decades Odis Anmina the court Wilhour comment left intact rulings that Yonkers must build subsidized homing in predominantly White sections of the City and create Magnet schools to reduce segregation. Agreed to decide whether the government May use a 19th-Century anti fraud Law to impose stiff civil fines on lop of criminal penalties for the same offence. The court said it will hear an Appeal by Reagan ,. _lr__1_ t1 �.hr. It wlm ill rv4naaf of in the government 01 Joju in ecu  
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