Word: brunson
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...delight, that has created a monumental legal quagmire, which got deeper and stickier last week. The murder charge was dropped in the first Lucas case to be prosecuted since he changed his tune: the 1983 ax slaying of a 72-year-old El Paso woman, Librada Apodaca. Judge Brunson Moore found his confession involuntary and | ruled Lucas had not knowingly waived his right to a lawyer. "Good treatment and perks" motivated the confession, Judge Moore concluded after his ruling. "You can catch as many flies with honey as with a fly swatter...
...infinite mercy may find forgiveness for your crimes," Judge Hugh Brunson told Defrocked Priest Gilbert Gauthe Jr. But the court, said Brunson, was faced with the "need of society to protect its most defenseless and vulnerable members, the children." Brunson sentenced Gauthe to 20 years in prison without parole after Gauthe pleaded guilty to sexually molesting eleven boys in his Henry, La., parish. Gauthe was the fourth Catholic priest imprisoned this year on such charges (the other cases occurred in Idaho, Wisconsin and Rhode Island) and the most severely penalized...
Companies soon found other advantages to an underground business. In 1960, Amber Brunson, 77, president of Brunson Instrument, a maker of precision optical devices, set up a plant in the caves because vibrations in a surface building posed problems. Once the operation got going, Brunson found that he was also able to cut energy costs to almost nothing; the caves stay at a stable 57° to 62° all year long. Says he: "I've turned the furnace off for six weeks in the dead of winter without our employees complaining...