The Michigan Daily-Saturday, June19, 1982-Page 5
Kell trial: long four
By GEORGE ADAMS murderer Leo Kelly. The jury, to hear a tape-recording of psychiatrist
and LOU FINTOR deliberating in one of Ann Arbor's most Edward Nol's testimony. Nol told
More than a year after the Bursley publicized cases in recent history, jurors Kelly was psychotic and insane
dormitory murders rocked the Univer- failed to reach a verdict yesterday and at the time of the April 17, 1981
sity community, and four weeks after recessed for the weekend. shootings.
the controversial trial started, another Unsatisfied with their knowledge of KELLY'S mental state has provided
delay has occurred in the case of accused the testimony, the jury asked yesterday the focus of debate between prosecution
and defense. For weeks, jurors have
heard conflicting testimony about
Kelly's frame of mind before, during,
and after the Good Friday slayings of
University students Edward Siwik and
Douglas McGreaham.
Kelly is pleading not guilty by reason
of insanity.
Defense attorney William Waterman
called Nol and psychologist Thomas
Gunnings to the stand, while opposing
testimony for the prosecution was
} presented by University psychiatrist
Dr. Philip Margolis. State Center for
Forensic Psychiatry experts Drs. Lynn
Blunt and Harley Stock testified at the
request of the court.
GUNNINGS, A clinical psychologist
and MSU professor of psychiatry, told
jurors that, based on the examinations
he gave Kelly last October at the
request of Kelly's attorney, "I reached
the conclusion that the client (Kelly)
was suffering from schizophrenia of the
paranoid type and he was not able to
judge right from wrong or stop his ac-
tions."
Stock, however, told jurors "there
was no evidence that the defendant met
the statuatory requirements for mental
illness at the time of the crime." Ac-
cording to Stock, Kelly wanted to
"make a name for himself" and "go out
WILLIAM WATERMAN, Kelly's attorney, has relied on psychiatric in a blaze of glory" because he knew
testimony in his attempt to convince jurors that his client was insane at the that he would be dismissed from the
time of last year's Bursley shootings. University a second time for poor
academic performance.
weeks
Blunt, a witness for the prosecution,
offered particularly surprising
testimony when he said Kelly, through
premeditation and deliberation,
targeted Edward Siwik for murder.
"YES, HE was looking for Mr. Siwik,
and yes, he (Siwik) was one of the in-
tended victims," said Blunt. Later the
psychiatrist reaffirmed his belief that
Kelly was sane at the time of the
shootings.
Dr. Margolis continued the damaging
testimony, saying Kelly "was very
mentally healthy, both before and after
the killings." Margolis said that Kelly
was not remorseful of the deaths of the
two students, a fact which led him to
conclude that Kelly was not mentally
ill.
A schizophrenic who commits a
crime, Margolis said, "willitend to be
quite remorseful." He also said that
Kelly was "vague and contradictory"
during the psychiatric examination.
IN ANOTHER unexpected move,
Kelly-against the advice of his defense
attorney-took the stand.
Appearing rational, calm, and lucid,
Kelly testified that he could not
remember events surrounding the
April 17, 1981 murders. Kelly insisted
upon being the first defense witness to
take the stand.
"I can't remember anything from the
time I came back to my room to the
time they (police) arrested me," Kelly
said, adding that he could not explain
how the murder weapon,-which he iden-
tified as belonging to him, got into his
room.
EARLIER IN the proceedings,
Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge
See JURY, Page 7