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Jackson:KathernI. Jackson, 87, of Red Bluff died Wednesday, May 4at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Friday, May 6, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Deathnoticesmustbe provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. DEATHNOTICES Holmansaid. Initial traffic on the scanner reported the need for extrication, but the woman and three children who were passengers in the vehicle were out when emergency responders ar- rived, Officer Matt Coker said. The truck scraped a gold Oldsmobile Alero parked next to it and slid next to a window at which a man had been sitting moments before, but there was no one on the sidewalk at the time the truck went onto it. A separate crash Thurs- day in Tehama County also was non-injury, according to a Caltrans press release about 3:30 p.m. State Route 32 was closed to westbound traffic about 4.5 miles west of the junction with State Route 36 due to a jack-knifed big rig that spilled a load of lumber. A closure to east- bound traffic was put in at place at Los Molinos. Crash FROM PAGE 1 ley said. His primary duty is to preserve, protect and de- fend the Constitution. Reed said his law ex- perience brings the skills needed to be a good Con- gressman. "I've represented cli- ents of at least 10 agen- cies in the state of Califor- nia," Reed said. "I feel like that has been equivalent to holding office." He said he is interested in invest- ing in infrastructure and getting high speed Inter- net so the community can grow business. Being able to communi- cate with various groups, rich or poor, has been in- strumental for Cheadle in understanding other cul- tures, something he says is a benefit to this area. He has earned degrees that allow him to see what works and what doesn't. Candidates FROM PAGE 1 Nichols over Christmas break 2012, a couple of months before she was killed. "I never saw her smoke," Howarth said when Daly asked her how Nichols felt about smok- ing. "She thought it was gross. Both our mothers smoked and she was al- ways trying to get them to stop." Courtni Shults, an ex- girlfriend of Bealer's, was the final witness called to the stand Thursday. Shults said she was in a relationship with Bealer from July 2012 to Novem- ber of 2012, but she has known him for almost 30 years. Daly asked Shults about an incident when Bealer asked her to pretend she was 16. "I don't remember the exact dates, but he asked me to put on a nighty and act like I was 16," Shults said. "I told him that I would act like I was 18." During cross exam- ination, Bealer's attor- ney Shon Northam asked Shults about her relation- ship with Bealer. Shults confirmed there was tension between the two and said Bealer would sometimes push her but- tons, making her angry. "Isn't it true that at times he would tell you that you were acting like a child or like you were 16," Northam asked. "Yes," Shults replied. "He thought it was funny until I was pissed off with him." Northam asked Shults about an incident where she almost ran Bealer over with a U-Haul. Shults confirmed the inci- dent and said she had lost her home and packed up everything she owned. "He was supposed to help me and he tried to take off so I jumped the curb with the U-Haul," Shults said. Bealer's trial will con- tinue Monday at 9 a.m. in Department 27. The trial is expected to last until the end of May or beginning of June. Trial FROM PAGE 1 The Associated Press LOS ANGELES A former trash collector in Los An- geles was convicted Thurs- day of 10 "Grim Sleeper" se- rial killings that spanned two decades and targeted vulnerable young black women in the inner city. Lonnie Franklin Jr. showed no emotion as a clerk read the 10 mur- der verdicts in Los Ange- les County Superior Court after a two-month trial in the potential death penalty case. Franklin also was found guilty of one count of at- tempted murder. Jurors were told to re- turn May 12 for the tri- al's penalty phase. Frank- lin could receive the death penalty. The killings from 1985 to 2007 were dubbed the work of the "Grim Sleeper" be- cause of an apparent 14- year gap after one woman survived a gunshot to the chest in 1988. The crimes went un- solved for decades and community members com- plained that police ignored the cases because the vic- tims were black, poor and some were prostitutes and drug users. Much of the violence un- folded during the nation's crack cocaine epidemic when at least two other se- rial killers prowled the part of the city then known as South Central. The 10 victims, including a 15-year-old girl, were fa- tally shot or strangled and dumped in alleys and gar- bage bins. Most had traces of cocaine in their systems. Franklin, 63, a onetime trash collector in the area and a garage attendant for the Los Angeles Police De- partment, had been hiding in plain sight, said Deputy District Attorney Beth Sil- verman. Police eventually con- nected Franklin to the crimes after a task force was assigned to revisit the case that dozens of offi- cers failed to solve in the 1980s. The DNA of Frank- lin's son, collected after a felony arrest, had similari- ties to genetic material left on the bodies of many of the victims. An officer posing as a busboy later retrieved pizza crusts and napkins with Franklin's DNA while he was celebrating at a birth- day party. It proved a match with material found on the breasts and clothing of many of the women and on the zip tie of a trash bag that held the curled- up body of the final vic- tim, Janecia Peters. She was found Jan. 1, 2007, by someone who was rifling through a trash bin and noticed her red fingernails through a hole in the bag. Silverman described the victims as sisters, daugh- ters and mothers who suf- fered frailties but had hopes and dreams. She projected photos of the 10 women from happier days, many smiling from headshots that captured their youth and the hair- styles of the times. The im- ages were in stark contrast to gory crime scene and autopsy photos also dis- played of half-naked bodies sprawled among garbage — images that made family members wince, weep and recoil in the gallery. Defense lawyer Seymour Amster challenged what he called "inferior science" of DNA and ballistics evi- dence. During his closing argument, he introduced a new theory: a "mystery man with a mystery gun and mystery DNA" was re- sponsible for all the kill- ings. He said the man was a "nephew" of Franklin's who was jealous because his un- cle had better luck with ro- mance, though he offered no supporting evidence or any name. Amster based the theory on the testimony of the sole known survivor, Enietra Washington, who was shot in the chest and crawled to safety after being shoved from an orange Ford Pinto in November 1988. She testified that her assailant said he had to stop at his "uncle's house" for money before the attack. Washington later led detectives to Franklin's street. Silverman scoffed at the "mystery nephew" notion, saying it was as rational an explanation as a space ship killing the women. She said the killer had just lied to Washington about an uncle and was probably stopping at his house to get his gun. The attack fit the pattern of seven previous killings and showed how the killer carried out the crimes, Sil- verman said. The bullet re- moved from Washington's chest matched ammo re- trieved from the previous victims and she provided a detail that would later prove telling. Washington described how her attacker took a Po- laroid photo of her as she was losing consciousness. Police searching Frank- lin's house more than two decades later found a snap- shot of the wounded Wash- ington slouched over in a car with a breast exposed. It was hidden behind a wall in his garage. CRIME Lo s An ge le s ma n gu il ty i n 10 'Grim Sleeper' serial killings BARBARA DAVIDSON — LOS ANGELES TIMES VIA AP Lonnie Franklin Jr. appears in count in Los Angeles, on Thursday. The Associated Press DAVIS An epidemic of the tree disease "sudden oak death" has surged beyond control in California, a new study shows. The computer model used in the study pub- lished this week in the Pro- ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences took into account topography, weather and factors like funds available to fight the extremely contagious dis- ease. It has killed millions of trees along the North- ern California coast since it emerged in 1995. The study suggests that the disease is spreading too fast to eradicate statewide, saying it will accelerate af- ter 2020 when it is likely to flourish in California's northwestern corner, where conditions are perfect for it. Had the state begun fighting the disease in 2002, it may have been possible to eliminate it, the study says. Critics have faulted the state and federal govern- ment for failing to take such stronger actions, the Los Angeles Times reported (http://lat.ms/1SZhyr5 ). But the report is not en- tirely hopeless, offering rec- ommendations for fighting the disease on a small scale to slow its growth by focus- ing on restoring small lo- cal forests. "We're going to have to learn to live with it and try to slow its spread with lo- cal management efforts and lots of experiment- ing," University of Califor- nia, Davis, ecologist Rich- ard C. Cobb told the news- paper. "We won't be able to avoid much of the ecolog- ical impacts of losing all these trees ... but there is still time to avoid the worst possible outcomes of this epidemic by prioritizing trees that are most at risk and taking steps to protect them." Cobb worked on the study with colleagues from North Carolina State Uni- versity and the University of Cambridge in England. 'SUDDEN OAK DEATH' Study: Tree disease might be unstoppable in state By Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Califor- nia Supreme Court jus- tices questioned Thursday whether Gov. Jerry Brown made sweeping changes to an existing ballot proposal that shortchanged voters in his bid to put his plan to reduce the state's prison population on the Novem- ber ballot. But other justices on the seven-judge panel said at a hearing that the legislature wanted to give initiative proponents broad latitude to make changes, and pub- lic comment on proposed initiatives had to stop at some point. The justices did not immediately issue a ruling. At stake are Brown's amendments to a juvenile justice initiative increasing sentencing credits for adult inmates and allowing ear- lier parole for non-violent felons. Brown says the changes are needed to help keep the inmate population below the level required by fed- eral judges. But a Sacramento County judge in February said the governor went too far when he amended the juvenile justice initiative, violating a 2014 law that requires that amendments are rea- sonably related to the orig- inal initiative and new ini- tiatives receive 30 days of public comment. Justice Ming Chin said Brown's changes turned the measure into a consti- tutional amendment, and eliminating public com- ment on a proposed con- stitutional amendment seemed "wrong." Justice Kathryn Werdegar also raised concerns about Brown's changes. "What's the purpose of the comment period if after that, as here, the proposed initiative is changed," she said. "The comment period becomes irrelevant and an exercise in futility." But Justice Goodwin Liu, a Brown appointee, ques- tioned how far Brown's amendments strayed from the original initiative, say- ing the court had approved measures before that seemed less related. Liu also said the public com- ment period had to "stop somewhere." Justice Carol Corrigan said it seemed "pretty clear" that the legislature wanted to give a "great deal of lat- itude to the proponents of any initiative." In her February ruling, Sacramento County Supe- rior Court Judge Shelley- anne Chang blocked At- torney General Kamala Harris from issuing doc- uments that Brown's sup- porters needed in order to gather the signatures re- quired to put his initiative on this year's ballot. The California Supreme Court has since allowed the sig- nature-gathering process to continue while it decides the case. Chang's decision came in a lawsuit brought by the California District At- torneys Association and Sacramento County Dis- trict Attorney Anne Marie Schubert. They accused Brown of completely rewriting the original juvenile justice measure to sidestep the normal initiative process. Thomas Hiltachk, an at- torney for the district attor- neys association, told the California Supreme Court Brown had pulled a "bait and switch," and the court would encourage others to do the same if it allowed his amendments to stand. Harris has countered that allowing Chang's in- terpretation would invite similar lawsuits against nearly 40 other ballot mea- sures that were amended after they were initially filed. She has argued that "substantive, even sweep- ing" amendments are per- mitted. "Our concern here is that the trial court created an unworkable standard," Paul Stein, representing the at- torney general's office, told the court. Brown has said without amending the juvenile jus- tice initiative, it is too late to start over and still col- lect the nearly 586,000 sig- natures needed for a ballot measure this year. CRIMINAL SENTENCES California high court questions Brown's prison measure ANNMARIESEIGMUND Ann Marie Seigmund of Redding AKA Ann Carter passed away April 27th at the age of 67. Celebration of Life pot luck at 11am on May 14 at her home, 21526 Hwy 299E Redding." RUTH JEAN CLAUNCH "JEANNIE" May 7, 1947 ~ March 31, 2016 Ruth Jean "Jeannie" Claunch, 68 passed away March 31, 2016, at Enloe Medical Center. Jeannie was born May 7, 1947 in Courdalene, Idaho to Robert Gillaspy & Ruth Deeks. Jeannie and her husband Bobby, were married for near- ly 50 years, and lived in Corning for 25 years. She was a Realtor for 20 years serving Tehama and Butte counties. She worked for Moller Realty Group for 10 of those years. She enjoyed fishing, travling, camping and spend- ing time with family and friends, she loved her dogs. She attended the Bapist Church and a member of Bible Study, Corning. Jeannie is predeceased by her parents, aunts, uncles, and grandchildren. Jeannie is survived by her sons; Dave and Steve Claunch, daughters; Catrina Collins, Sylvia Martin, Brenda Scott; sisters, Geraldine Merritt, Sonya Davidson, 20 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Hall Brothers Mortuary of Corning is handling the arrangments. Obituaries FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2016 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A