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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 24, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9 spurt quashes to cameras in House raids new York a the Federal courts and the Fri have yelled Cut at to camera Crews who tag along with police and follow them right into suspects living rooms during a raid. The 2nd . Circuit court of appeals ruled earlier this month that Law enforcement officers on a raid have no right to bring reality to shows such As cops into a House without the owner s permission. Citing constitutional rights to privacy and Protection against unreasonable search and seizure the court declared a private Home is not a sound stage for Law enforcement  the ruling came in an invasion of privacy Law suit brought against lbs after a Street stories camera Crew accompanied the secret service on a search of a woman s Home in 1992. Lbs never aired the footage and has settled the suit under confidential terms. Shortly before the ruling the Fri Law enforcement bulletin warned Federal state and local Law enforcement agencies around the nation Media participation in enforcement activities that occur in private areas should be specifically prohibited unless the Media obtains consent from individuals occupying those  taken together the Federal pronouncements Are Likely to Cool at least some Law enforcement agencies ardor for television lights. Lbs spokesman Tom Goodman said the net work will no longer Send a camera Crew into a Home without the owners permission. And of course getting permission before a raid is impose l woman m Miami a a woman who gave up her children and made plans to kill herself when she thought Shehad the aids virus was awarded $600,000 for pain and suffering because her test had been misread. Vernelle Lowder 49, believed for two years that she was dying of aids. She would not let her three teen age children hug her and gave Legal custody of them Toher Mother who would Wash her daughter s dirty dishes with bleach. Finally she returned to her Hometown in Georgia where her attorney said she planned to kill herself when the disease made her seriously ill. But she never became ill because Lowder never had the aids virus a state lab had misdiagnosed her test results. Last week a jury found the state lab and the doctor who treated Lowder responsible. It s horrible to go through something like this Lowder s attorney Steven Mitchel said thursday. This is just about As bad an event As can happen to  ". / ,.\v,/ v. Last year Lowder sued the state department of health and rehabilitative services which tested the $600,000 of aids test Sample the family health Center which Drew the Sample and or. Homer Kirkpatrick who treated her. She said All three should have known she was no Thiv positive and ordered a retest. The clinic was cleared by the Dade circuit court jury but the lab was found 65 percent responsible and the doctor 35 percent responsible. The jury decided sept. 16 that hrs should pay $390,000 of the $600,000 verdict. Under state Law it i required to pay $100,000, the maximum allowed under Florida s Cap of damage payments by government Agen cies. The Cap can be altered Only bythe state legis lature.   Kirkpatrick settled on the eve of the trial agreeing to pay $250,000, $40,000 More than he would have paid under the jury s  attorney Steven Hyatt said they would Chal Lenge the ruling. Lowder is also challenging it saying the clinic should also have been found responsible. Kirkpatrick could not be reached for comment. Mitchel said he had moved out of state and a woman answering the phone at his old office number said he no longer had a Miami practice. Judge balks Cit prison time for offender 94 Jacksonville Fla. A at 94, Wesley Hon Elwood is facing prison time and a judge is worried he won t get out alive. V since 1946, Honeywood has been charged with 46 crimes convicted of five felonies placed on probation three times and served eight prison sentences i Philadelphia Baltimore and Tampa and Orlando Fla., among other cities. " Honeywood pleaded guilty thursday to aggravated As Sault and Possession of a firearm by a convicted Felon. He pointed an unloaded gun at a Man who warned him not to eat grapes growing in the Man s Yard. He faces up to 60 years in prison As a habitual offender. -. -. ".-. If i impose a prison sentence it s probably a death sentence because he s already lived Long past his life expectancy judge r. Hudson Olliff said. It s a dilemma because the crime the person committed is not punishable by  Olliff could come up with an alternative at the oct. 7 sentencing. Honeywood was on probation for attempted sexual Battery of a 7-year old girl when he committed his latest crime. ". 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