The Michigan Daily-Thursday, June 17, 1982-Page 3
TESTIMONY ENDS, JURY TO DELIBERATE TODAY
Kelly not remorseful, expert says
By GEORGE ADAMS
Conflicting testimony on the mental state of Leo
Kelly continued yesterday as another psychiatrist
told the jury that Kelly was not mentally ill at the
time of the Bursley Hall murders he is accused of
committing.
Kelly "presented himself as being very
psychologically healthy, both before and after the
killings," said Dr. Philip Margolis, a psychiatrist and
University psychiatry professor who examined Kelly
in May at the request of Prosecuting Attorney Lyn-
wood Noah.
ACCUSED OF the first degree murders of fellow
University students Douglas McGreaham and Ed-
ward Siwik on April 17, 1981, Kelly, 23, is pleading not
guilty by reason of insanity.
The prosecution and defense rested their cases
yesterday and will present closing arguments today
at 2. p.m.
"In my opinion," Margolis told jurors "he (Kelly)
was not remorseful" of the deaths of the two victims.
This lack of remorse was "one of the factors which
suggests he was not mentally ill," he said.
"A PARANOID schizophrenic who commits a
U.S. scoffs
at Soviet
nuclear
restraint
promise
WASHINGTON (AP)- U.S. gover-
nment officials said yesterday the
Soviet Union's pledge never to be the
first to use a nuclear weapon is "un-
verifiable and unenforceable," and not
an effective or credible means of
reducing the danger of nuclear war.
In what amounted to a rejection of the
proposal made Tuesday by Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev, State
Department spokesman Dean Fischer
said the Soviet pledge "gives no
assurance that an aggressor would not
in fact resort to the first use of nyclear
weapons during a conflict or a crisis."
THE BREZHNEV promise, delivered
by Soviet Foreign Minister Andei
Gromyko before a U.N. General
Assembly special session on disar-
mament, was that the Soviet Union
unilaterally is assuming the obligation
"not to be the first to use nuclear R 1
weapons."
Gromyko said this promise "shall
become effective immediately."
Fischer noted that President Reagan, The Un
in a speech Nov. 18, pledged that no during th
NATO weapons, conventional or whether
nuclear, ever will be used "except in given pre
response to attack." fpr Replac
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of meetings with Gromyko tomorrow at Two me
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But he refused to go into detail about Michigan
talks, except to say that Haig and current p
Gromyko have "a lengthy menu of construct(
issues to be discussed." lowest bid
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sought to obtain U.S. consent to a joint dissatisfa
promise on the no first use of nuclear at their A
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the United States has always rejected. Precast
crime, a violent act stemming from his illness, will
tend to be quiet remorseful," he explained.
Margolis added that Kelly said he was "kind of an-
noyed" with the two dead men and "in essence was
blaming these people for causing him a great deal of
grief."
Kelly is of above average intelligence, bright, alert.
and was able to answer all questions, though he was
somewhat "oppositional and manipulative,".
Margolis testified. "He was concerned that I was
examining him. He said he had been examined
enough and didn't want to go through with it," he
said.
AT TIMES DURING the examination, Kelly was
"vague and contradictory," Margolis said. "I
asked him about a Molotov Cocktail (a homemade
bomb) and he replied 'oh yes, I can make one,'
hesitated, then said 'I mean, I know how they are
made,' " Margolis explained.
The several psychology experts that have-testified
are divided in their opinion about Kelly's mental.
health. Testimony that Kelly was insane at the time
of the murders was given by Drs. Thomas Gunnings
and Edward Nol, both of whom were asked by defen-
se attorney William Waterman to examine Kelly.
State forensic center psychiatrist Lynn Blunt and
forensic exaniner Harley Stock, however, both
testified that Kelly was not mentally ill at the time of
the crime.
After the jury was excused, Waterman motioned
to have Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Ross
Campbell dismiss the case in chief, which would
result in Campbell alone deciding the outcome of a
reduced charge of second degree murder. Waterman
said he thought the prosecution had not provided suf-
ficient evidence of premeditation. "There is no
adequate basis for the defendant to go to the jury for
first degree murder," he said.
Campbell denied the motion, saying, "The pur-
chasing of shells, the existence of a so-called hit list, a
list of student's names, I mean, some of them bearing
special notation, the existence of the materials for a
Molotov Cocktail, a gas mask all point toward
premeditation."
Noah then motioned to strike the insanity defense,
which Campbell also denied, saying "there is some
evidence from the defense to support their theory"
that Kelly was insane.
Wagrontrain
These young pioneersforge new trails in their wheels yesterday at Farmer's Market.
egents to discuss hospital bids
By BILL SPINDLE
iversity Regents will debate
eir monthly meeting-today
state contractors should be
erence in the bidding process
cement Hospital Project con-
obs.
nths ago, the Regents asked
Iministrators to prepare for a
ting a bidding policy favoring
firms. The University's
olicy for the project awards
ion contracts to firms with the
d.
REGENTS expressed
ction with the bidding policy
,pril meetin~g, when they reluc-
proved a contract awardfor
dian-based firm of Beer
Concrete Ltd. The Beer
Precast bid was $2,413,000, only $3,000
less than a bid from a Michigan con-,
struction firm; Gerace Construction
Company of Midland.
The award of such a substantial con-
tract to an out-of-state firm at a time.
when several Michigan firms suffer
from the state's lagging economy
provoked local concern.
The Beer Precast award brought the
bidding issue "to a point where the
Regents asked us (hospital planners) to
look at a way to give Michigan firms
preference," said hospital planner
Marsha Bremer. "When times are
tough, (the state) has contractors that
really need to work."
BREMER pointed out, however, that
not all the money awarded to the
Canadian firm was spent outside of
Michigan. She said that 40 percent
($940,000) of the $2.4 million was spent
on stats laborers employedat the site.
Bremer said that hospital officials
were receptive to the Regents' request
for a policy aiding state contractors.
"That certainly is a feeling we can
identify with," she added.
Bremer said that although the Regen-
ts will discuss a change in policy, she
did not expect a final decision to be
reached today.
"I don't think that any proposal is
going to be made," Bremer said,
"(although) I know that there will be
some discussion of it."