European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 13, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 hostage holding youth disarmed by classmate police Lead away a 17-year-old ninth grader accused of holding 22 fellow students hostage wednesday. Rapid City. . Apr a boy armed with a sawed off Shotgun took 22 fellow High school students hostage for about four hours wednesday and demanded pizza soda and cigarettes before a student disarmed him police said. No one was injured. The gunman a 17-year-old ninth grader at rapid City Stevens High school gave up after a hostage took the Shotgun away when he rested it on a table while lighting a cigarette police chief Tom Hennies said. The youth was arrested without incident Hennies said. His name was t released because of his age. The student walked into a math class wearing a Trench coat pulled out the Shotgun and ordered the teacher to leave Hennies said. Police said the youth fired about 10 shots during the standoff but no one was hit. He released four of the students As he negotiated with authorities Over the school s intercom system police said. At one Point he demanded pizza which was delivered. Later police delivered soda and cigarettes to the room. Chris Ericks a 17-year-old senior said he saw an Opportunity to disarm the gunman when the cigarettes arrived. I he gunman had the Only lighter and students approached him to have their cigarettes lit. Ericks said. When the gunman rested the Shotgun on a table while lighting cigarettes. Ericks said he snuck up from behind grabbed the weapon and pointed it at him. Quot i knew we were never going to get out unless somebody in the room took  Ericks said. The students were on a first name basis with the  and talked with him about school related topics Quot during the standoff. Ericks said. Ericks said the gunman appeared Calm but shot holes in the chalkboard Pencil Sharpener Anil overhead projector. A special response team was called to the school As were the parents of the students being held police said. Stevens student Jason Craig told radio station kk1.s that the boy a Friend of his hinted he might take such action. A a Craig said his Friend asked him Quot a what do you think would happen if i walked into math class tomorrow with a Shotgun a a a use of Dan analysis in court cases questioned by Cox news service technicians who Analyse human genetic material for use in establishing the identity of rapists and other criminal defendants make errors that seriously undermine its Validity As evidence an Emory University psychologist said wednesday. Or. Martin Shapiro said an analysis of samples in a Federal Bureau of investigation data base revealed biases that Lead technicians to greatly overstate the significance of a particular Sample of the genetic substance detox ribonucleic acid or Dan. The Bias always works to the disadvantage of defendants said Shapiro who is also a practising attorney. First used As evidence in 1986, Quot genetic fingerprinting is becoming an increasingly popular Way to establish identity especially in rape cases where semen can be Analysed for its genetic makeup then compared with blood samples. It has been used in More than 2,0 h criminal investigations in 49 states and presented As evidence in More than 185 court cases. However in his criticism of the practice Shapiro joins a growing number of scientists around the country who say the science is too unreliable to be used in court. Dan exists in Long spiralling strands in the nuclei of cells and provides the genetic a a blueprint by which organisms reproduce. The patterns encoded in each persons Dan Are unique to that person. However just As All people have some physical characteristics in common portions of Dan Are similar for All people while other portions vary. From comparative studies geneticists can identify segments with a great Deal of variation and then estimate the probability that a Given pattern from such a segment will recur from one person to another anywhere in the world. It is in this estimation of the uniqueness of a particular Dan pattern that Shapiro said he found Bias. Testifying in court a Laboratory scientist will say that a segment of Dan taken from a crime scene matches the same segment taken from the defendant s blood and that the likelihood of two randomly chosen people having the same match is one in a million or even less. In arriving at their assessment of that likelihood technicians Are required to make two estimates which to be valid must be Independent of each other said Shapiro. However analysing genetic information from the Fri data base he said he found that in a significant number of instances a technician s conclusions on the first estimate influenced his conclusion on the second estimate. In every Case said Shapiro the Bias led the technicians to overstate the significance of Matching segments of Dan. John w. Hicks director of the Fri Laboratory division said he disagreed with Shapiro. Quot we Don t agree that there is a Bias Quot Hicks said a although we Are familiar with the phenomenon he is trying to  drop plea in sex Case fort Lauderdale Fla. Apr prosecutors withdrew a plea agreement with a self proclaimed nymphomaniac and her husband on prostitution charges wednesday after reports that their lawyer tried to sell a videotape of the woman with a client. Kathy willets and her husband Broward county sheriffs Deputy Jeffrey willets had planned to enter guilty pleas to prostitution related charges wednesday. But the state abruptly withdrew the plea agreement during a hearing before Broward circuit judge John a. Frusciante. A reporter had said the office of Ellis Rubin the Willet ses attorney offered to sell a videotape of Kathy willets engaged in a sex act. Reporter Steve Wilson of the syndicated program inside edition said one of Rubin a sons attorney Guy Rubin offered to sell the program for $60,000 a videotape of Kathy willets having sex with former fort Lauderdale vice mayor Doug Danziger. The couple charged clients from $50 to $150 an hour and made As much As $25,000 Over six months investigators said. They face trial on the original charges oct. 2. Couple claim Flag caused eviction Hayward Calif. Up a California couple have sued their former landlords for allegedly evicting them from their Hayward Home for flying the . Flag during the persian Gulf crisis. William and Susan Barker said the landlords Robert and Louise Johnson evicted them after the barkers 18-year-old son Murray refused to take Down a Flag he flew to support of . Troops in the persian Gulf when ordered to do so by Robert Johnson. The suit filed last week in Alameda county Superior court claims Johnson came to the House feb. 9 and ordered the Flag removed because As a Jehovah a witness he believes that flags represent false images or idols. The barkers claim their eviction several months later was triggered by the Flag incident and say their constitutional rights to free speech were violated. The suit seeks unspecified damages for emotional distress and Legal fees based on Quot retaliatory  it also claims the property was in disrepair and no Effort was made to Correct deficiencies. The barkers now live in Fremont. Their attorney Clifford Hirsch said that the Issue centers on the first amendment right to free speech and that complaints about the condition of the House Are secondary. A the landlord cannot decide whether a symbolic or decorative Flag May be flown from the premises Quot he said. Quot no one is contesting the right of the landlord to exercise his religious beliefs. However those beliefs cannot be imposed upon a  Diane Silva the Johnsons attorney said she had not yet seen the lawsuit but said the dispute is Over other matters relating to the tenancy. A my clients absolutely deny that Flag flying had anything to do with it Quot she said wednesday. Quot they were extremely shocked by the  captured fugitive finally wins her Freedom Indianapolis a a woman who had been a fugitive since her prison escape 22 years ago until her arrest this summer gained her Freedom wednesday when a judge accepted a release agreement. Mary Louise Wright 41, was placed on probation for one year and ordered to perform 100 hours of Community service. A i knew one Day it was going to catch up with me a Wright said As she was escorted Back to the Marion county jail for processing before her release. A but in a glad now a she said. Quot for the first time in 22 years in a  Marion Superior court judge Webster Brewer Wrights attorney and prosecutor Jeffrey Modisett All noted that Wright had led a crime free life since 1969, when she scaled a Fence at the Indiana women a prison. She had just begun a one-to-10-year sentence there for assault and Battery. Wright was arrested july 24 after a state trooper stopped her for driving with a broken Brake Light. She had lived in her old neighbourhood and elsewhere in Indianapolis under her own name after her escape at age 19. Alter her arrest she was returned to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence. Wright had been convicted of attacking a 63-year-old nurse at the Indiana girls school where she was sent for truancy. She has said the nurse slapped her face and hit her in the stomach so she struck Back. The judge noted the release was conditional on the performance of Community service. Wright already has agreed to work with Goodwill industries