Battalion/Page 11
November 10, 1982
national
DeLorean cries ‘foul
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — John
DeLorean’s attorney says fed
eral agents illegally trapped
his client and prosecutors
have resorted to distorting
facts to holster their cocaine
conspiracy case against the
multimillionaire automaker.
After DeLorean pleaded
innocent Monday to charges
he took part in a conspiracy to
distribute cocaine, his attor
ney, Seth Hufstedler, said,
“There is a procedure where
by outrageous conduct by the
government can be estab
lished."
Hufstedler, one of four
attorneys representing DeLo
rean, said the government
had publicized half-truths
and lies about the case. He
said DeLorean’s lawyers were
from the “old school” and
would not discuss the case,
which will be tried beginning
fan. 7.
“All of the publicity is com
ing from the government and
from agents closely associated
with the government,” he
said. “We must therefore real
ize much of it is half-truths,
some of it is downright false.”
In an “outrageous conduct”
defense, the defendant would
attempt to show he would not
have become involved in an
illegal act without the guiding
hand of law enforcement.
“It is not a fair appraisal of
what occurred,” Hufstedler
said. “There’s a procedure by
which outrageous conduct by
the government can be attack
ed, and we propose to file
appropriate motions to do
so.”
The government charges
DeLorean approached a paid
informant and said he wanted
to earn up to $60 million
through cocaine and heroin
sales to save his flashy sports
car firm in Northern Ireland.
DeLorean, 57, who is free
on $10 million bail, appeared
before U.S. District Court
judge Robert M. Takasugi
Monday and pleaded inno
cent to nine criminal counts of
conspiracy to distribute
cocaine. Co-defendants Wil
liam M. Hetrick and Steve L.
Arrington also pleaded inno
cent.
Takasugi, who set a Jan. 7
trial date for the three men,
instructed defense attorneys
to submit all pretrial motions
by Nov. 29, with the govern
ment’s response due by Dec.
15. A hearing was set for Jan.
3 to hear the motions.
A spokesman for U.S.
Attorney Stephen Trott said
the government’s policy was
not to comment on the case.
Stock rises expected
United Press International
NEW YORK — Wall Street
gave new' life to its historic rally
Tuesday, sending stock prices
sharply and broadly higher de
spite profit-taking sparked by
the Federal Reserve’s failure to
cut its discount rate.
The Dow Jones industrial av
erage, which fell 14.34 points to
1,037.44 Monday, was ahead
15.27 to 1,052.70 at 12:30 p.m.
ES I . It had fallen 28.05 points
since hitting an all-time high of
1,065.49 last Wednesday.
“This market has a life of its
own,” said Trude Latimer of
Evans & Co. “There are great
expectations that prices will
move on to new highs in the near
future,” she said.
Man charged in jail fire
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BILOXI, Miss. —A man with
I long history of mental illness
las charged with 27 counts of
lurder for setting a fire in his
caudal cell at the Harrison
lounty jail that killed 27 in
mates and injured 47 other
( people.
“I; District Attorney Albert
[Jecaise said Robert , Eugene
fates, 31, Granite City, Ill., was
lltarged with 27 counts of t apit-
imurder, Arraignment was not
immediately scheduled.
Pates suffered only minor in-
ries and was in the psychiatric
Unit at Memorial Hospital in
tulfport, Miss., Tuesday, where
.dr.' policeman-brother said he
I Should have been all along.
“The deputy called (Sunday)
to tell me they had my brother
on some charge,” said William
Pates, a police officer in Forest
'ark. Ill. “I told him my brother
ft a mental patient and sug
gested they take him to a mental
listitution or somewhere for a
kychiatric evaluation.
"I guess they didn’t do it soon
:nough,” he said. “I really feel
tad about this, hut like 1 say,
[hey were advised (Sunday) he
liifa mental patient.”
Robert Pates had been
hrrested twice within six hours
;j |unday for public drunkenness,
^ find was ordered held f or a san-
u Shearing when he refused to
Aave the jail after his second
' Brest.
. Deputy Fire Chief Roy Ed-
tards said the cause of the fire
Id not been determined,
Ithough authorities suspected
natches.
The fire blackened the one-
tory brick jail with deadly
pyurethane smoke that
»ured through the air-
:ondiuoning system.
Rescue crews used wreckers
pull the bars off some win-
iows to get inmates out of the
)lock of group cells, but many
ivere found huddled in the cells,
iome prisoners had tried to
rlock their cells with rags.
The injured, 30 inmates and
17rescue personnel, were taken
to three hospitals, where nine
remained in critical condition
Tuesday from smoke inhala
tion.
Deputy Donald J. Ramos said
he determined Robert Pates
should be placed in a padded
cell after he talked with him for
45 minutes “without under
standing anything he wanted.”
William Pates said his brother
has escaped from mental institu
tions about 28 times.
“He has been a mental patient
for 10 years,” the elder Pates
said. “He’s been in mental insti
tutions all over the country.
They release him all the time.
The doctors say he’s not going to
harm himself or anyone else. “It
doesn’t speak highly for our
mental system.”
Sheriff Hobbs said the jail,
housing 95 inmates and three
jailers on duty when the fire
broke out, was equipped with
smoke and fire detectors but did
not have a sprinkler system.
Authorities said the padding
in the cell, made of
polyurethane and containing
formaldehyde, was installed in
1977 and they were assured it
was fireproof by the company
that installed it. “Obviously, it
did not resist the fire,” said
Boyce Holleman, Harrison
County attorney.
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