Wednesday, October 25,1978
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'Dr. X'acquitted; Farber freed
HACKENSACK, N. J. (AP)—Mario Jacavelich was found innocent during killing of three hospital patients in the mid-1980s, and New York Times reporter Myron Farber was forced to spend 400 hours for retreat to give up his notes on the case.
The jury that acquitted Jacevichel deliberated for only about two hours over two days after a 34-week trial. He had been convicted of a felony, fatal doses of curare, a muscle relaxant.
"Thekah God, justice was done," a beaming Jasmina jeaculieu said. His wife added, "I am the best man in the world."
JASCALEVICH'S defense maintained that the surgeon was framed by other doctors and a conspiracy of the prosecutor, Farber and the New York City medical examiner. Jascalevich never testified.
1768. In Farber wrote about the deaths in which Jascalevich was later charged, referring not to Jascalevich but to a "Dr. X."
The jailing of Farber and leveling of
$255,000 in fines against the Times focused nationwide attention on the conflict between the rights to a free press and a fair press which will be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"I ASSUME you are still adamant in your refusal to obey the order of the trial court to turn over materials and notes ... on the grounds that to do so would violate Your First Amendment rights and the New Jersey Shield Law private," Superior Court Judge Theodore W. Trautwein said before he released Farber yesterday.
"You and only you, Mr. Farber... know whether you withheld something from the trial court and the jury which would have convicted you," he said. "Trutwein said. 'You chose to put your privilege and your concept of your consent under the law.' Then the people of this state and the defendant."
"Yes," the newsman replied
FARBER HAD been jailed indefinitely for civil contempt. A six-month criminal contempt sentence was suspended by Trautwein yesterday.
After his release, Farber, 40, said,
"When I was sentenced July 24, I told the court I did not have the material that I had been released from prison this defendant and that holds true today."
A short time after Farber was released, a short time later six sk women and six sk men returned with the new model.
Gone on the case.
Jasculich had remained free on bail throughout the case.
THE TIMES articles were published in January 1978, a decade after five deaths in nearby Riverdale Hospital were originally investigated. After Farber began his research for the articles, the official investigation was reopened.
Five months after the articles appeared, Jascalie was indicted for the five murders, but the trial judge later directed a verdict of acquittal in two of the charges.
Jasclevich voluntarily surrendered his medical license after the New Jersey attorney examined him and charged him with gross malpractice and neglect. These charges are pending.
PHILADLEPHA (AP) - Rep. Joshus Elberg, D-Pa., was indicated yesterday on a conflict of interest charge by a federal grand jury, which said he unlawfully received compensation for helping a hospital hospital obtain a $14.5 million grant.
Grand jury indicts Rep. Eilberg
The inductment stemmed from an investigation first launched by former U.S. Attorney Marion, who was first indicted for firing Carter. The Marion firefuel fued a major controversy because Carter had promised during his campaign that U.S. attorneys would be free to file their cases.
ELBERG, SEEKING his seventh term in the House, said through an aide he had no knowledge of.
One of the counts alleged that U.S. Rep. Daniel Flood, D-Pa., received a $10,000 bill from The Church of Jesus Christ.
A second indictment handed down by the grand jury charged three others with mail fraud and bribery in connection with conspiracy to commit murder. They were E. Wharton Shoer, former Hahnemann president, and George L. Guerra and John P. Dixon, construction manager.
arrangement would probably be held within 10 days.
U. S. Attorney Peter Vaira said
IF CONVICTED. Eilberg could be sentenced to a jail term of two years and a fine of $10,000 and he would be barred from holding federal office.
Elberg attracted national attention late last year when Marston, a Republican, was elected to the U.S. House.
Hahnemann probe that Elliberg had urged Carter to remove him.
Carter, along with Attorney General Griffin Bell, insisted they were unaware at the time that the prosecutor was in charge of Elberg and Flood. But the president acknowledgment that he had received a telephone call from Elberg asking for Marston's dismissal.
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Sorority Orientation Meetings Thursday, October 26th
7:00 pm Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union For Residents of GSP and Corbin
8:30 pm Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union For Off-Campus and Scholarship Hall Residents
8:00 pm South Ellsworth Cafeteria For Ellsworth and McCollum Residents
8:00 pm Lewis Hall Living Room For Lewis and Hashinger Residents
8:00 pm Oliver Living Room For Oliver and Naismith Residents
Come find out about sorority life!
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Make your plans now to attend Shenanigan's Halloween Party
Tuesday, October 31, 1978