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6—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Thursday, April 24, 1980.
Texas judiciary elections
attracting public interest
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By GARTH JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas TAP) -
Texas’ high court, races are
different this year - at least
some of them are attracting
public attention.
Political campaigns for the
Texas Supreme Court and the
Texas Court of Criminal Ap-
peals have always been low key
with the candidates directing
their attention mostly to
lawyers and political leaders.
This year, a number of
candidates for the state’s two
highest courts are campaigning
border to border, even taking
stands on public issues.
Texas voters will have a say
May 3 on two supreme court
races and three positions on the
court of crimihal appeals' The
contest will be continued in
November in two. supreme
court races.
One of the most-watched
races is the three-man primary
battle to succeed Supreme
Court Justice Zollie Steakley,
who is retiring. The most active
candidate is Judge Jim
Wallace, 51, former state
senator and now on the Houston
Court of Civil Appeals. Since
last January, Wallace has
bveen traveling the state,
urging, among other things, the
establishment of neighborhood
justice centers, where private
citizens could get their disputes
settled without big expenses. He
also wants to computerize court
testimony, instead of the
present tedious typewriter
copies that are very expensive.
Other Democratic candidates
for Steakley’s job are Judge
John C. Phillips, 63, of the
Austin Court of Civil Apeals and
Wayne Scott, 42, law professor
at St. Mary's University, San
Antonio. Both stress the need to
expedite cases before the
state’s highest civil court.
The Democratic winner
meets Austin attorney Jim
Brady, 59, in November.
The other supreme court
primary race has incumbent
Justice Sears McGee
challenged by Lawrence E
Bergman, an attorney in
Rowlett.
Justice Robet M. Campbell,
44, is unopposed for a seat on
the supreme court.
The big court race in
■ November likely will be that of
Republican Justice Will Gar-
wood, 42, against Judge C,L.
Ray, 49, Democrat, a member
of the Texarkana Court of Civil
Appeals. Garwood, apported
last year by Gov. Bill Clements,
is backed by a non-partisan
campaign committee including
five former supreme court
judges. Ray, a former state
representative, has the support
of state Democratic Party
leaders.
On the Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals, alj three
incumbents up for re-election
are running in the Democratic
primary. There are no
Republican candidates.
Incumbent Judge "Leon
Douglas,-64, who is well known
for his dissents to apellate court
decisions based solely on
technicalities in the law, is
seeking his third term on the
court. Prior to that he was the
state's prosecuting attorney for
14 years.
Douglas is an advocate of
intermediate courts of appeal
for criminal cases, a proposed
state constitutional amendment
that will be on the November
ballot.
Challenging Douglas is
Houston attorney Marvin 0.
Teague, 46, who thinks the way
to increase efficiency in the
Court of Criminal Appeals is to
hire more paralegal assistants,
briefing attorneys and research
attorneys. Teague ran un-
successfully for the* court in
1978.
Incumbernt Judge, W.T.
'Phillips, 67, is challenged by
Dallas attorney John E.
Humphreys, 54, and Michael J.
McCormick, 34, . of Austin.
Phillips wants a constitutional
change allowing appeals of
misdemeanors, bail forfeitures
and bail reduction cases to be
made to the courts of civil
appeals.
Humphreys wants an in-
termediate division between
trial courts and the Court of
Criminal Appeals.
McCormick, former
executive director of the Texatf
District and County Attorneys
Association, says the present
. system of allowing the Court of
Criminal Appeals to hear cases
in panels of three judges is not
working. He.says the system
should be abandoned because
many cases now handled by a
panel must later be reheard by
a the full court.
In the third Court of Criminal
Appeals race, incumbent Judge
Tom Davis, 58, is opposed by
Houston attorney Walter Boyd,
44, and Austin attorney Edith
Roberts, 47. Davis also urges
passage in November of the
amendment to give courts of
civil jurisdication in criminal as
well as civil cases.
Boyd said judicial selections
should be non-party affiliated.
Ms. Roberts thinks it would be a
good idea for the Court of
Criminal Appeals to travel over
the state in an effort to speed up
the tourt calendar.
Debate renders no surprises
By DONALD M. ROTHBERG
AP Political Writer
HOUSTON (AP) - George
Bush and Ronald Reagan say
they aren’t worried about
losing votes to John Anderson if
the Illinois congressman runs
for president as an in-
dependent.
During their one-on-one
debate Wednesday night, the
two candidates for the
Republican presidential
nomination agreed that An-
derson is more likely to draw
votes away from President
Carter than from the GOP
ticket.
The confrontation between
the two remaining contenders
for the Republican nomination
failed to produce fireworks as
Bush and Reagan outlined their
differences on taxes and
foreign policy in polite fashion.
“It didn’t seem to move as
the other debates did,” Bush
said after the one-hour con-
frontation. “It didn’t have the
zip. Maybe, I contributed to
that. 1 don’t know.
“It just seemed long to me.”
“There hadn’t been any fast
balls thrown that I couldn’t
answer,”, said Reagan. “So, I
was satisfied with that.”
Anderson was to have been
the third man on the stage at
Albert Thomas Auditorium, but
he withdrew and sources in his
campaign indicated that the
congressman would announce
today his intention to campaign
for president as an in-
dependent.
Bush, a former Republican
Party chairman, said he didn’t
believe an independent can-
didacy by Anderson “is going to
make that much difference."
Bush added that “I believe
he's more apt to pull from
Jimmy Carter.”
Reagan agreed, saying, r“T
believe whatever he’s going to
get, he’ll take from the Carter
side rather than from our
side."
At one point, Reagan made a
remark that appeared to
eliminate Bush from con-
sideration as a possible running
mate if the former California
governor gets the nomination,
but later he called his comment
“an ill-chosen bit of humor.”
The remark was a reference
to a major disagreement
between the two men over
taxes.
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