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Lawyer says accused
kidnapper was insane
Warped
by Scott McCuI
United Press International
GALVESTON — A man ac
cused of kidnapping three men
last month may nave suffered a
nervous breakdown and should
be committed to a hospital for
mental testing, his court-
appointed lawyer, Elmo Schwab
said.
Ronald Floyd White, who has
been charged with the kidnap
pings, said he has no memory of
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the crimes he is accused of com
mitting. Schwab said Wednes
day that his client is innocent by
reason of insanity.
“This seems to be a classic
case of a person who has under
gone a physical and mental ner
vous breakdown,” Schwab said.
“This is a man who has been
married 21 years, has three chil
dren and has never been in any
kind of major trouble.”
“I think he did (his under the
throes of a complete mental ner
vous breakdown.”
White is charged with kid
nappings in Galveston, Mont
gomery and Live Oak counties.
He is accused of burying alive
Michael Baucom, abducting
firefighter Goby Hamilton and
then forcing trucking company
employee Robert Cameron to
drive White to San Antonio.
Three other suspects are
being held in the Galveston
County Jail on charges that they
acted together in the Baucom
kidnapping and burying.
“If he can’t remember what
happened, I can’t ever begin to
organize a defense for him. He
looks, acts and talks weird, like
he’s insane. This man should be
pitied and not pilloried,”
Schwab said.
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Court rules that trial tapes
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AUSTIN - An appeals court
ruled tape-recorded conversa
tions between a murder defen
dant and a hypnotist should not
have been entered as evidence in
the woman’s trial for allegedly
killing a three-year-old l>oy, and
reversed the conviction.
asked to Ik* executed lor the
shooting death of Jason Phillips.
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The Court of Criminal
Appeals Wednesday ordered a
new trial for Linda May Burnett,
34, who earlier this month had
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The
court ruled tape-
recorded conversations between
Burnett and a hypnotist were
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WARREN, Ark. — Police
have been holding a 70-pound
pig named Prissy since Saturday
in connection with a traffic viola
tion, and authorities apparently
are perturbed about their porky
prisoner.
In fact, police are reluctant to
talk about Prissy, whose owner
was charged with driving under
the influence of intoxicants.
“Anything I say can and will
be used against me,” said an
officer who answered the tele
phone at the Warren City jail.
“It’s the sheriff’s depart- 1
ment’s case,” said another city
officer.
A woman who answered the
telephone at the Bradley County
sheriffs office said there wasn’t
anybody there.
Sources said the pig was pick
ed up by State Trooper Joe Lee
Wright at about 2 a.m. Saturday
in rural Bradley County. Prissy
was a passenger in a car driven
by Joanne Greer of Texas, who
was not further identified.
Greer was charged with DWI
and taken to the Warren jail,
and Prissy was sent to the city
pound.
But Prissy apparently became
distressed there and refused to
eat.
“It turned out that the pig was
this lady’s net,” said an officer
who begged for anonymity. “We
got the pig back and for a while
she just sat in the day room pet
ting it. 1 hen we put it out back in
a pen we sometimes use to hold
stray dogs.”
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her right to keep da
her attorneys private.
Jefferson Countv I
Attorney Jim McGn
prosecuted the case, i
would ask the court ton
dec ision.
“I was shocked.
the\ were going to M
McGrath said.
Early this month,
asked District Judge L.^
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abandon the automat^
of her death sentence s
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wife with three childtfl 17
her boyfriend Joe Dtf y
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Winnie, Texas, along*
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