UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 30. 1993
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LOS ANGELES
Defense says client not proven as man who attacked Denny
Prosecutors are looking for scapegoats in the beating of Reginald Denny and failed to prove that the man charged with hurling a brick at the trucker was the attacker seen on a videotape, a defense attorney said yesterday.
"This case has no credibility whatsoever. This case should not have been before you," attorney Edi Faal said in closing arguments.
Faal, who represents Damian Williams, said prosecutors failed in their primary mission: identifying Williams as the man seen beating Denny on videotape in the opening moments of the April 1992 riots.
On Tuesday, the lawyer representing defendant Henry Watson conceded during his closing argument that his client probably assaulted Denny when he put his foot on Denny's neck but said Watson certainly did not intend to kill him.
Watson and Williams, who are African Americans, are charged with attempted murder in the attack on Denny, a white trucker who was pulled from his rig and bloodied after four policemen were acquitted in the Rodney King beating.
THE NEWS in brief
NEW YORK
Jury picked for bombing trial
An anonymous jury of 12 people — all of whom described themselves as Christians or said they did not practice a religion — was selected for the trial of four Muslim fundamentalists accused of bombing the World Trade Center.
Six alternate jurors were to be selected yesterday. The eight women and four men were selected Tuesday after more than a week of screening in which more than 150 prospective jurors were questioned.
Opening statements could begin as early as today. Six alternate hurors were to be selected yesterday.
The bomb blew a 150-foot-wide crater beneath the second-tallest building in the world on Feb. 26, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000. One woman selected said she was Christian and had "a love for Israel."
A 28-year-old man on the jury said he was a member of the National Rifle Association, had read Soldier of Fortune magazine and liked to play "paint ball," a game in which adults shoot each other with paint in a mock battle.
Each juror will be referred to by number only.
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CLEVELAND Court OKs Demjanjuk protests
Demonstrators will be allowed to march outside John Demajurki's house but must schedule their protests with police in advance so that opposing factions don't meet on the street.
Common Pleas Court Judge Daniel Gaul issued the order on Tuesday. It embodies an agreement worked out by the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents anti-Demnjarjuk demonstrators, and the prosecutor for the suburb of Seven Hills.
Jewish groups and the Ku Klux Klan have demonstrated outside Demjanjuk's empty home in Seven Hills since his return from Israel, where he was convicted and later acquitted of being the Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible.
The 73-year-old retired Ohio autoworker has not been seen at his house since he returned to the United States on Sept. 22.
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