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Wednesday, June 11, 1997
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Fourth Kevorkian trial begins
The Associated Press
IONIA, Mich. — Jack Kevorkian's first assisted-suicide trial outside the Detroit area opened with jury selection yesterday in a Main Street movie house. But the man at the center of the case wasn't on stage.
Kevorkian's request that he not be required to attend the trial was granted by Ionia County Circuit Judge Charles Miel. Kevorkian feared his presence might cause a disturbance, defense attorney Geoffrey Fieger said.
Indeed, more than a dozen people, most of them disabled, protested against him outside the Ionia Theatre.
Jack Kevorkiar
times in five Detroit-area deaths and was acquired every time.
The small-town flavor of his fourth trial was evident as 160 people gathered inside the theater, the closest
place to the courthouse able to hold the pool of prospective jurors in this town of nearly 6,200 people. The judge presided from a stage with a red velvet curtain.
Prosecutor Ray Voet has a jury consultant advising him for the selection of 12 jurors and two alternates. Fleger has five consultants.
Several prospective jurors were dismissed for a variety of reasons. Some attended Voet's church; a woman questioned whether Kevorkian should be charged; one man had signed an advertisement in Monday's Sentinel-Standard opposing assisted suicide.
"We believe the role of medicine is
to heal whenever possible and comfort when that healing is not possible," said the ad, signed by 15 local doctors.
Angered by the ad on the eve of trial, Fleger asked the judge to move the case outside Ionia County. Miel declined to make a ruling.
Kevorkian is accused of helping Loretta Peabody commit suicide Aug. 30 at her Ionia home. At first her death was declared natural, and her body was cremated.
A week later, a videotape was seized 100 miles away at Oakland County motel room where police believed the retired pathologist was preparing to help her die.
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The same military court last week cleared another former Darmstadt instructor, Sgt. Julius Davis, of six rape charges, but convicted him of multiple accounts of indecent assault. Davis was sentenced to two years in prison and received a bad-conduct discharge and a reduction in rank.
DARMSTADT, Germany — A female recruit wept while testifying yesterday that she was raped by a U.S. Army sergeant at a training center in Germany and said she did not resist out of fear he would harm her.
Sgt. Paul Fuller is charged with rape and attempted rape as part of a sex abuse scandal at the Darmstadt training center.
The Associated Press
Officer accused of raping recruit
Investigation is second of three at German facility
Jurors appeared bored and distracted with much of Pate's testimony.
As Pate faced the barrage of questions from prosecutor Patrick Ryan, McVeigh leaned back in his chair and watched with a slight half-grin.
The woman testified the alleged rape took place last fall after she had gone to Fuller's room at his request. But she did not report it until the Army began an investigation of the training center in February because she was ashed.
She wept as she described the alleged rape. "He laid me back on the bed. I didn't know what to do. I was too scared," she said. "I just laid there while he did what he wanted to do. I didn't want to make it worse."
charge and a reduction in rank. A third sergeant also is under investigation.
Fuller, 25, of Columbus, Ohio,
has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
His attorneys contend his alleged victims agreed to have sex.
The female recruit, a private first class, testified on the second day of Fuller's trial that he forced her to have sex and she didn't resist because she feared he would harm her.
Pate said McVeigh's reference to power-hungry storm troopers was a phrase used by the militia movement
Witnesses describe McVeigh's anger
The Associated Press
DENVER — Timothy McVeigh's lawyers yesterday tried to make jurors understand McVeigh's rage at the government. A Soldier of Fortune writer testified that McVeigh had embraced the militia belief that federal agents had been responsible for the deaths of women and children at Waco. McVeigh was driven to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building by anger about the deadly fire at the Branch Davidian compound, prosecutors said. McVeigh's attorneys have supported that scenario in their attempt to spare him the death penalty.
Journalist James Pate analyzed McVeigh's writings and found militia buzzwords, patriotic passages and references to the government sieges at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
referring to conduct where the perception was there had been excessive or abusive force.
"It contains a very broad range that touches on every aspect of the movement," said Pate, who has written about militia culture.
Pate said under cross-examination that Soldier of Fortune did not advocate violence to answer concerns about government abuses. He said that some militia members had overstated government wrongdoing at Waco.
Timothy McVeigh
About 80 people died in the fire that destroyed the Branch Davidian compound, over
Waco, on April 19, 1993, exactly two years before the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building blast killed 168 people.
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