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'Fatal Vision' killer seeks retrial
RICHMOND, Va.—Attorneys for convicted "Fatal Vision" murderer Jeffrey MacDonald told a three-judge appeals panel yesterday that physical evidence excluded from MacDonald's 1979 trial could have proven him innocent.
Associated Press
The former Army Green Beret doctor convicted in the 1970 killings of his pregnant wife and two daughters is asking the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to order a new trial.
The case became a best-selling book and television miniseries, both called "Fatal Vision."
Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz told the judges that attornes discovered evidence of blonde wig fibers in 1990, corroborating MacDonald's account that intruders killed his family.
MacDonald claimed the intruders were hippies, including a young
Dershowitz said defense lawyers couldn't have learned earlier about the fibers found at the crime scene because the government had misled them.
woman wearing a long. blonde wig.
"The government deflected attention from one haystack to another in which the defense was trying to find a needle," he told the judges.
It was a miracle that lab notes describing the fiber evidence were found by defense attorneys, he said. Attorneys obtained the notes through a Freedom of Information request.
"Anyone can be framed and put in jail as long as the government is selective about what it presents," Dershowitz said later.
"Fibers are nothing more than household debris." DePuzaid.
Justice Department attorney John DePue called the fiber evidence inconsequential. DePue said other fibers that didn't match items owned by the family also were found at the scene.
MacDonald was convicted in the 1970 stabbing and clubbing deaths of his 26-year-old wife, Colete, and their two young daughters.
MacDonald, 47, is serving three consecutive life prison terms at a federal prison in Oregon. He didn't attend the hour-long hearing.
He testified that he heard his wife screaming from a bedroom but was unable to reach her before an intruder stabbed him. MacDonald suffered stab wounds that prosecutors said were self-inflicted.
MacDonald was a doctor at Fort Bragg, N.C., at the time of the killings. He told Army investigators that he fell asleep on a床 in the family's apartment and awoke to find four people standing over him.
A federal judge turned down the request for a new trial last July.
Professor in Maine rigs son's grades
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Maine — A professor at the University of Maine at Augusta has been suspended for one year for his role in a grade-rigging scheme involving his son, the school said.
favors for his son.
UMA President George Connick said Tuesday that Roger Teachiout was suspended for one year as of Jan. 2 for allegedly arranging for several teachers at the college to do special
The university has declined to name the student involved, but several faculty members have identified him as a potential alumna. The science professor Roger Teachout.
The university administration contends Teachout's son received 56 academic credits for work he did not complete. The school said the credits amounted to two years worth of work toward a bachelor's degree in public administration.
Connick said that the issue was not whether the younger Teachout had done any of the course work but whether, as a faculty member's son, he received special treatment and was given lower standards than other students.
acceptable is not holding all students to the same standards." Connick said.
Earlier, the university fired Russell Cotnoir, chair of the Department of Business and Governmental Sciences, for allegedly giving unearned academic credits to a student.
"The issue of standards is in the hands of the faculty. ... What is not
In addition, two other faculty members have been reprimanded for their alleged roles in the grade-rigging scheme.
The two professors have filed grievances asking that letters of reprimand be removed from their files, and Cotnoir has filed a grievance asking for his job back.
Philadelphia plagued by federal housing waste
The Associated Press
Michael Smermonch, Philadelphia regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, said Tuesday that HUD could not risk more money spent on the project, known as Southwark Plaza.
PHILADELPHIA — The federal government has frozen its funding of one of the nation's most expensive public housing reconstruction projects because of overspending by the troubled Philadelphia Housing Authority.
HUD's grant for the project, $48 million for four years, was the largest single reconstitution grant ever made by the agency.
Federal officials decided to step in
According to an internal memo obtained by the Philadelphia Inquirer, HUD said the project was out of control and raised numerous questions on why money was spent and little work had been done.
after an audit showed that $5.8 million spent by the authority had produced no usable architectural drawings, the renovation was more than two years behind schedule and the final cost was projected at $57.2 million, $14.4 million over budget, Smerconish said.
Saidel, who became chairperson in
City controller Jonathan Saidel, the housing authority's chairperson, said HUD officials ordered him to open a separate bank account for federal housing funds and refrain from signing any new contracts.
January 1990, portrayed himself as an outsider fighting corruption and backscratching at the authority.
The housing authority has a 1,700-person payroll, with more than 700 maintenance workers. The authority, with 80,000 tenants and an annual budget of more than $150 million, is notorious for the diapidated condition of its housing and its poor maintenance record.
Rendell said he had formed a task force to review the operations of the housing authority and the city's three other housing agencies. The task force is to report by the end of March.
Mayor Edward Rendell, who took office last month, said the housing authority was in disarray and promised changes.