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Tuesday, April 4, 1995
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Request to jail tennis star's attacker denied
The Associated Press
HAMBURG, Germany — A judge today rejected a request to jail the man convicted of stabbing tennis star Monica Seles.
Guenter Parche was given a suspended sentence in October 1993 after being found guilty of causing grievous bodily injury in the attack six months earlier. Seles, 21, has not played professional tennis since the stabbing.
Prosecutors and Seles' attorney had asked Judge Gertraut Goering to change the charge against Parche to attempted manslaughter and sentence him to prison.
Seles, who lives in Sarasota, Fla. issued a one-sentence statement through IMG, her management firm
"I am as surprised as everyone else, and I just don't understand this," she said.
On April 30, 1993, Parche stabbed Seles in the back during a changeover in a match at a tournament in Hamburg's Rothenbaum stadium.
Parche said he knifed Seles so that his idol, Germany's Steffi Graf, could become No. 1 in the world.
Goering said testimony from Seles would have been needed to convict Parche on a more serious charge. Seles did not attend the original trial or the appeal hearing.
"We assume that Parche's act is the reason that Seles is not able to play tennis anymore, but this can't be said with certainty because Sels was not willing to testify in court," Goering said.
Seles wrote a letter to the court, saying Parche's attack had destroyed her life.
Goering accepted testimony by police officers and psychiatrists who said that, aside from his fixation on Graf, Parche was harmless.
"The evaluations were both positive," Goering said. "Both experts expect that he will never be moved to do something like that again. We can't rule out that he meant to do more than he did to Seles, but we also can't prove this."
The judge said Parche's confession and his written letter of apology to Seles counted to his credit.
Prosecutor Rolf Rosenkanz had acknowledged in his closing arguments, "from the previous life of the accused, there is nothing to show
that he was aggressive."
But Rosenkranz said the 40-year-old Parche should be imprisoned because he had carefully planned the attack, because it was carried out in public, and was in part based on political prejudices.
Parche had spoken of his dislike of Serbs. Seles, an ethnic Hungarian, was born in the Serbian area of Yugoslavia. She is now an American citizen.
Seles' psychologist, Jerry Russel May, of Reno, Nev., testified that she was suffering post-traumatic stress disorder. She has trouble doing normal, public daily tasks, such as going to the grocery store, May testified.
But homicide detective Rolf Bauer, who headed the interrogation of Parche after the attack, testified that Parche had given a credible explanation that he didn't want to maim Seles for life, only put her out of action until Graf could regain the top spot in women's tennis.
"It was obvious to us all that the man belonged with a doctor and not in jail," Bauer said.
Herschel Walker signs with Giants
The Associated Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Now that they have Herschel Walker in the fold, the New York Giants won't have to worry about the loss of Dave Meggett.
He will be paid $1.1 million next season and $1.4 million in 1997.
The deal includes a $1.8 million signing bonus and a $500,000 contract for this season, sources close to Walker said.
Walker signed a 3-year, $4.8 million contract with the Giants today, less than a week after being released by the Philadelphia Eagles.
"I want to thank the Giants for this," Walker said at a news conference. "It's a big homecoming for me.
I consider this my second home. I
started my career here and I want to
end it here."
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The Heisman Trophy-winning running back started his career at Giants Stadium as a member of the New Jersey Generals of the now-defunct United States Football League.
Walker is excited by the prospect of returning to the Meadowlands and playing for Coach Dan Reeves.
"I want to win a championship," Walker said. "Whatever it takes and whatever I have to do, that's what I want to do. My objective is to be in
He is returning now to take over the Giants' third-down and return specialist job that opened when Meggett left the team to join the New England Patriots as a free agent.
Walker rushed for a team-high 528 yards and five touchdowns and caught 50 passes for 500 yards in 1994 for the Eagles.
camp early, so I can learn what I have to learn.
"There's no doubt in my mind I can contribute a great deal to whatever team I'm on. I consider myself a player who can still do a lot of good things in the NFL."
Walker, who can run and catches passes out of the backfield, will spell Rodney Hampton. Walker also can play the upback on punts, return kickoffs — his 27.7-yard average was the NFL's second best last season — and block when used as a fullback.
His best season was 1988, when the former Georgia All-American had 1,514 yards rushing for the Dallas Cowboys.
Skater tries FAST getaway
The Associated Press
PATERSON, N.J. — A group of investors claims Olympic champion Dan Jansen is skating away with thousands of dollars they deserve for sponsoring him before he struck gold.
Just before the 1994 Olympics, Jansen signed with Integrated Sports International of East Rutherford. That agreement, which acknowledges the existence of the earlier agreement with FAST, gives ISI 15 percent of Jansen's earnings.
The group, Falcon Aero Skate Team (FAST), maintains that Jansen has failed to pay them 20 percent of his endorsement and appearance fees, as required under a five-year deal he signed in January 1990.
Jansen switched because FAST organizer Bennett Raffer, a New Jersey businessman, wasn't soliciting endorsements, Jansen said in a deposition in the lawsuit brought by FAST last summer in state Superior Court.
Raffer and several of the other FAST partners then sold their interests, which Jansen maintains voided their deal. Jansen has filed a countersuit through lawyer Stephen Apollo of Hacksensack.
Jansen won the 1,000-meter race at Lillehammer after a series of heartbreaks at previous Olympic Games.
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