Thursday, July 29, 1976
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Seven
Thursday, July 29, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven
Judge refuses mistrial in Harris trial
LOS ANGELES (M) - Wil-
liam and Emily Harris' law-
yers, losing a last bid for a
mistrial yesterday accused the
judge of actions "more prose-
cutorial than the prosecution"
and demanded his removal.
They said he had sanctioned
a jury that may include "a
saboteur."
Superior Court Judge Mark
Brandler refused to disqualify
himself.
"I THINK the court is now
out of control in assuming the
role of prosecutor," said chief
d e f e n s e attorney Leon-
ard Weinglass. "The court has
taken a position more prosecu-
torial than the prosecution it-
self."
Outside court, Weinglass told
reporters he felt the judge was
"handling the case like a pro-
secutor gone berserk."
It was the fourth time in two
days that the defense had bit-
terly denounced the judge as
biased.
WEINGLASS and Harris are
scheduled to address jurors to-
day before the case is submit-
ted for their verdict.
Brandler rejected defense
argument that the smuggling of
an inflammatory newspaper ar-
ticle into the jury room had
poisoned the Harris case.
Weinglass said the smuggler
- probably a juror - wanted
to remind the panel of anguish
surrounding Patricia Hearst's
1974 kidnaping by the Symbio-
nese Liberation Army. Hearst
is the Harrises' absent codefen-
dant on kidnaping, robbery and
assault charges.
THE newspaper found stuff-
ed in a wastebasket in the jury
room last week was a Feb. 6,
1974, edition of the Los Ange-
les Times which reported her
kidnaping with a banner head-
line.
"The jury had heard one
week of testimony from wit-
nesses who seemed not inclined
against the defendants," said
Weinglass. "They s e e m e d
friendly to them.
" . This paper was put in
the jury room to show the oth-
er jurors that not all victims
are a happy lot, that not all
victims are pleased with the
actions of the SLA.
"IT WAS a calculated re-
minder coming just at the time
of the Chowchilla kidnapings of
26 schoolchildren which were
a matter of national concern,"
he said.
Attorney Mark Rosenbaum,
citing numerous legal prece-
dents for a mistrial, said, "It's
likely one of the jurors has in-
fected this case in a deliberate
and purposeful manner. One of
the jurors may very well be the
deliberate saboteur."
Rosenbaum noted that lie
detector tests had cleared all
sheriff's personnel and court
aides of involvement in the
smuggling.
JURORS are the only other
persons with access to the heav-
ily guarded jury quarters in
the bullet-proof courtroom. It
would be considered legally im-
proper to have them take poly-
graph tests during a trial.
Economic index advances
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
government index on eonomic
trends, released yesterday, sig-
naled a continued, though rela-
tively slow growth in the
economy, and a resulting ex-
pansion of job opportunities for
American workers.
The index of leading indicators
advanced in June for the eighth
straight month but by the smal-
lest margin in seven months.
THE COMMERCE Department
said its index, composed of a
dozen individual statistics, rose
three-tenths of one per cent in
June. That compared to a
seven-tenths of one per cent
rise in May.
The May figure represented
a downward revision for the
month from the 1.4 per cent
originally reported. The June
advance was the smallest since
the one-tenths of one cent reg-
istered in November.
A particularly encouraging
note in the June index was that
the primary upward influence
came from a 13.6 per cent jump
in the volume of contracts and
orders for factories and facili-
ties.
THE JUMP reversed a 3.6
per cent decline in that cate-
gory in May and indicated that
business may be getting seri-
ous about expanded capacity-
and thus creating jobs-to cope
with further increases in de-
mand.
So far, consumers have been
the biggest spenders in the re-
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