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Estestobe SentencedToday; Lawyer to Ask for New Trial
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EL PASO, Tex. —(UPD)— Billie Sol Estes was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison today for breaking the federal mail fraud and conspiracy laws in a scheme to bilk finance companies out of millions of dollars. He was previously sentenced to eight years by a state court for swindling.
EL PASO, Tex. —(UPI)— Billie Sol Estes, convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy, comes before U.S. District Judge R. Ewing Thomason for formal sentencing today. Estes' lawyer disclosed he will ask for both an arrest of judgment and a new trial.
Lawyer John Cofer said both requests will be based on objections he made during the trial. Asking for arrest of verdict means he will ask Thomason not to pass sentence upon Estes today.
Estes, 38, could be sentenced to as much as 25 years for the four counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy.
NO MATTER WHAT decision Thomason reaches, the 38-year-old bankrupt financier will remain free
on bond. He currently is on $100,000 bond, which has been continued from a hearing one year ago shortly after Estes' arrest in his hometown of Pecos.
His son and law partner, Hume Cofer, has been in El Paso since Thursday questioning the 10 men and two women on the jury that convicted Estes. Cofer apparently wanted to determine whether coercion by the court could be used as grounds for a new trial.
THE JURY reported itself hopelessly deadlocked before Thomason sent them back to deliberate further. He sent in a copy of the charge he made at the close of the trial. The jury came back the next day with the verdict. One of the jurors, Jack Walters, told United Press International that they were sure of a verdict as soon as they got the charge. He said the case was too complicated without it.
Estes' sentencing does not end the legal blocks facing him.
The first suits involving fertilizer tank transactions by Estes were scheduled this weekend for court trial in Pecos, Tex., July 8.
University Daily Kansan
Alumni Association Names Secretaries
Vincent J. Bilotta, a 1957 graduate of KU, has been named field secretary of the KU Alumni Association.
Bilotta is a native of East Orange, N.J.
Bilotta has taught English and journalism at Roy Wasson High School in Colorado Springs the last two years. He previously taught at Washington High School in Bethel, Kansas, and at a Colorado Springs junior high school.
Bilotta, 27, will succeed Dick Wintermote, who becomes secretary of the Alumni Association when Fred Ellsworth retires. Bilotta and Wintermote will assume their new duties May 1.
Monday, April 15, 1963
WHITTIER, Calif. — (UPI) — An armed, would-be bandit came out second best yesterday under a barrage of soft drink bottles.
Pop Bottles Save Liquor Shop
William Hayes, 60, owner of Mills Liquor Store, and his clerk, Hal Wilson, 62, took evasive action when they were met by the masked gunman after arriving to open the store. They launched their bottle barrage from behind the counters—and claimed at least two direct hits.
The gunman, wearing a black stocking over his face, fired twice with an automatic—and missed—before fleeing through a hole he had cut in a wall to enter the store.
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