European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes . Saturday december 19, 1992 Tennessee jury convicts judge of sexual assaults Memphis Tenn. Apr a judge was convicted Friday of violating the civil rights of five women by sexually assaulting them at his Small town courthouse. Chancery judge David Lanier showed no emotion As the verdict was read in . District court. He refused comment As he left the courtroom with his arms around one of his daughters and his former wife. Lanier 58, of Dyersburg in Northwest Tennessee was convicted of twice forcing a woman to perform Oral sex in his office. She had come to talk with him about a Job and had a child custody Case before him. He also was convicted of grabbing the breasts or buttocks of courthouse employees. A to my knowledge this is the Only Case that has ended in a conviction involving a judge As a defendant for sexual coercion under this civil rights statute a said Albert Moskowitz a Justice department lawyer. Lanier was convicted of two felony charges each punishable by up to 10 years in prison and five Misdemeanour a jury acquitted Lanier on three other charges included in an 11-count indictment issued in May. Judge Jerome charges each carrying a maximum sentence of one year. Sentencing was scheduled for March 26. Lanier who was mayor of Dyersburg for 14 years will remain free on Bond and under court order to stay away from his accuse Turner threw out another charge on technical grounds. Lanier was originally accused of molesting eight women. He acknowledged having sex on the floor of his office with one of his accusers but said it was her idea. The jury acquitted him on the felony charge involving that incident. The jury also acquitted Lanier on a charge he fondled a courthouse clerk for 30 minutes As she sat beside him while his court was in session. In addition Lanier was acquitted of Lanier cars. Grabbing the buttocks of a woman. Lanier a lawyer Wayne Emmons said he will Appeal. Assistant . Attorney Amy Spain said the Case sends Quot a message that judges Are not above the  woman who aided 1,000 babies Dies new York up1 Mother Clara Hale who cared for about 1,000 babies born addicted to drugs or infected with his died suddenly Friday after suffering a stroke officials said. She was 87. Mother Hale As she was known founded Hale House in Harlem in 1975 to care for infants and youngsters whose parents addictions had left them addict of or neglected. She began caring for children in 1969, after her daughter psychologist Lorraine Hale saw a Young heroin addict nodding off with a 2-month-old baby in her arms. Mother Hale suffered a stroke Friday and was brought to mount Sinai Hospital were she died at 6 22 p.m., said Elaine Blankenship a Hospital spokeswoman. By her own estimate Over the years she cared for about 1,000 babies born addicted to drugs or alcohol or infected wit i the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. A a we be had almost 1,000 addicted babies. We hold them and Rock them. They love you to Tell them How great they Are How Good they Are. Somehow even at a Young age they understand that. They re Happy and they turn out Well a a she said recently. A until i die in a going to keep doing a she said. Born Clara Mcbride in Philadelphia on april i 1905, she married Thomas Hale after High school and moved to new York City where her husband opened a floor waxing business and she did Domestic work. After her husband died she took care of other Peoples children while raising three children of her own. She retired just a year before her daughter coaxed her into a new kind of child care. Clara hate in a 1985 photo cared for about 1,000 drug addicted and his infected babies before her death at 87 Friday. Sex coed Call girl cleared of attempted murder new York up1 a a woman who Moon lighted As a Hooker while attending premed classes was cleared of All charges in the shooting and wounding of her  after she told a Manhattan jury she shot him As he tried to rape her. Elizabeth Dugan 22, was charged with attempted murder and assault in the dec. 19, 1991, wounding of Robert Klaudinger. He is the owner of the East Side escort service that employed her As a $3l 0-an-hour prostitute serving Well heeled clients. The jury of eight men and four women began deliberating thursday and asked Only to rehear Dugans testimony. They announced their verdict just before noon Friday court officials said. Dugan a former straight a premedical student at new York University was the Only defense witness to testify. She told the jury Between sobs monday that she shot staudinger 27, after he put a pistol to her head and tried to rape her. A what else could i do 1 could t gel away la was Llie Only Chance i had a she said prosecutors however claimed she shot staudinger because he owed her Money and had threatened to Tell her family about her life As a coed Call girl. In his testimony at the trial in state supreme court in Manhattan the tall Burly Klaudinger said Dugan came to his apartment with no indication anything was wrong. He said that while he was making a phone Call she pulled out a pistol and opened fire wounding him in the head and hands. Dugan however testified she met staudinger the Day of the shooting at her request to resolve differences Over her refusal to work More frequently. Staudinger called a news conference later in the Day to denounce Dugan As a a  the Man prosecutors called a a a  said he was getting out of the escort business because it involved a self destructive  Quot it s no longer the business Opportunity it was 10 years ago Quot the Stocky restaurant owner said.2 men 2 women convicted in California mall murders from wire reports Pomona Calif. A a California jury convicted two men and two women Friday of murder in a 1991 san Gabriel Valley crime spree that left five people dead. The four defendants were charged in september 1991 with the highly publicized a Small  during their two month crime spree in 1991, the four robbed and killed three men and abducted and killed two women. The women were kidnapped from the Puente Hill mall. Alleged ringleader John Irving Lewis 22, was found guilty of All five murders. The sex con had confessed to committing the slayings to a get Back at  Eileen Huber 21, was found guilty of three of the four slayings. Vincent Hubbard 26, was convicted of two of the slayings and Robin Machuca 27, was found guilty of three  car Jockers indicted Orlando Fla. A four Polk county men have been indicted on Federal carjacking charges that allege they abducted the occupants of a Light truck near Kissimmee forced three to strip and then killed two of them. It is Only the second time a Federal grand jury has returned indictments for carjacking under a Federal Law enacted oct. 25, said . Attorney Robert w. Genzman. The first Case was filed in Philadelphia. It is the first Case in which defendants have been charged under a provision that increases the penalty in carjacking cases involving murder. The Law carries a sentence of up to life imprisonment without parole if a firearm is used to steal an occupied car and someone  men Gerard Ron Booker 22, of Auburndale Jermaine Alexander Foster 19, of Lakeland and Alf Catholic 21, of Winter Haven were indicted in the carjacking of a pickup in Auburndale on nov. 28 and a separate carjacking of a Nissan Pathfinder Light truck at St. Cloud Early the next morning. Leondra lament Henderson 17, of Eaton Park also was indicted in the Pathfinder carjacking but not the Auburndale  improving slightly Miami a the condition of an 18-month-old sperm whale rescued from a beaching is improving slightly but chances for survival Are still not Good Miami a aquarium veterinarian Gregory Bossart said Friday. Bossart said the whales condition has been upgraded from critical to guarded. The a aquarium has cared for the whale since it nearly washed ashore a week ago at Miami Beach. The 16-foot baby whale is in quarantine and is being treated for anaemia dehydration and malnutrition. Bossart said the whale is receiving about 100 pounds of liquid food each Day. The formula consists of pureed squid River smelt a High calorie liquid supplement and  gunman charged new York apr a Man whose lawyer claims he fatally shot one Man and wounded another in self defense on a Manhattan subway train was charged with second degree murder Early saturday police said. Jerry Robinson 25, surrendered late Friday at Harlem a abyssinian Baptist Church said a1 of Leary a spokesman for the new York City transit police. Detectives from the City and transit police were there when Robinson accompanied by lawyer c. Vernon Mason gave himself up to the Rev. Calvin Butts of Leary said. At a news conference at the Church Mason said his client fired in self defense. Police had said thursday that the shooting victim. Anthony Johnson 24, of Brooklyn apparently started the altercation by assaulting Robinson m�uns0n�?T rns the train through lower Manhattan with three companions got into a dispute wednesday night with a Man and hit him with a flurry of slaps and punches of Leary said. His friends dragged Johnson into another car but the other Man got up and taunted them with a cd a arcs through the window of the door. When the train rolled into the 14th Street station Johnson re entered the car and the fight resumed. 1 he gunman shot him with a .25-caliber pistol once m Cadi Arm and twice in the Chest