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ORT WORTH, Texas (AP) —
prosecutors who put former
Ishipman Diane Zamora he
el bars for the murder of a
irk-Pi school romantic rival are
setting their sights on her
ral6!#oyfriend.
We’re only half done,” lead
secutor Mike Parrish said. “The
n who pulled the trigger still
ds to be brought to justice.”
lobert Swofford, David Gra
n’s attorney, said he will not ac-
|$arf| t a plea bargain offer by the
e that would give his client a
fear sentence for allegedly
ng a 16-year-old-girl.
That’s out of the question,” said
jfford. “We will go to trial with
case and you will see a veiy dif-
nt trial than Diane Zamora’s.”
Swofford
not talk
his de-
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; ort Worth.
It’s pretty
ir that there
been an
“Diane said she faked a
confession to take the
blame for him, but what
excuse does he have?”
Bill Lane
Fort Worth Attorney
irmous
ount of publicity here.”
Zamora was convicted of capi-
murder in the Dec. 4, 1995,
ingofAdrianne Jones.
Prosecutors alleged she or-
ed Graham to kill the girl after
nad sex with Jones.
[fhis trial proceeds, Graham
tface much of the same damn-
evidence that made prosecu-
s’ case against Zamora seem
a slam dunk.
In separate interviews with
ice, Graham and Zamora gave
lilar stories about driving
ies to a remote lakeside field,
[ere Zamora hit the girl in the
id and Graham shot her as she
d to flee.
Both of the accused said the
ingwas an attempt to “purify”
hr relationship after Graham
idlones had a fling.
Zamora testified that she con-
wdonly to take the blame for
Graham. She said others — class
mates and a former best friend —
who testified that she also con
fessed to them were either mistak
en or lying.
At the request of Jones’ parents,
prosecutors opted not to seek a
death sentence in either case.
Zamora is eligible for parole after
40 years.
Her father, Carlos Zamora said
this morning on NBC’s Today
Show that Zamora was “doing
well” although she was numbed
by the guilty verdict.
“My Diane’s not a murderer,”
he said.
Gloria Zamora said she was not
surprised that her daughter did
not display emotion in the court
room Tuesday.
“I reacted in
the same way
that Diane react
ed,” Zamora said.
“We’re both real
jprivate and we
were hurting in
side both of us.”
Defense attor
ney John
Linebarger said
on the program
he would appeal
■■■judge Joe Drago’s
of Graham’s confes-
admission
sion, and his refusal to allow jurors
to consider the lesser charge of
murder against Zamora.
Some observers said Graham’s
attorneys have an even more dif
ficult task.
“He also has a confession that
can be admitted as evidence,” said
Fort Worth attorney Bill Lane, who
watched the Zamora trial.
“Diane said she faked a con
fession to take the blame for him,
but what excuse does he have?”
A juror revealed Tuesday that it
was Zamora’s confession that
sealed her fate.
“No matter how you look at it,
Adrianne Jones would still be
alive if not for Diane Zamora.
That seemed obvious even
though the specifics were some
times cloudy,” the juror told The
Associated Press on the condi
tion of anonymity.
Oprah producer says nothing
was false about ‘mad cow’ show
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) —
Oprah Winfrey’s staff had no rea
son to doubt the truth of her talk
show about “dangerous foods”
and didn’t set out to harm Texas
cattlemen, the
program’s exec
utive producer
testified
Wednesday.
Dianne
Hudson flatly
denied that
there was any
thing false
about Winfrey’s
April 16, 1996
a
Winfrey
show, which discussed whether
U.S. cattle herds were at risk for
the decade-long British epidemic
of mad cow disease.
The cattlemen attribute a cattle
market drop to the show and blame
Winfrey, her production company
and a vegetarian activist guest for
$12 million in losses.
“I’d never heard of those people
or those companies and they were
never referred to in the broadcast,”
said Hudson, referring to Paul En-
gler, Bill O’Brien and other plaintiffs
suing her.
The defense began presenting
testimony a day after the federal
judge in the trial tossed out the part
of the case filed under Texas’ food
defamation law.
However, U.S. District Judge Mary
Lou Robinson rejected a defense re
quest to throw the case out entirely.
Jurors returned from a four-day
break to hear the lawsuit as a com
mon-law business disparagement
case, which forces plaintiffs to prove
not only that Winfrey’s show was
false but that she meant to hurt the
beef industry.
“The mad cow segment of the
show focused on a feeding practice
done in portions of the beef indus
try, as we understood it, not all of
the beef industry,” Hudson said.
Cadet testifies comrade planned
raid at Marine Military Academy
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A
suspended military school student
testified Wednesday that his room
mate enlisted his help in attacking
another student to “get even.”
But Christopher Lee Boze said
what began as a typical hazing rit
ual at the Marine Military Acade
my almost turned deadly when Je
remiah George Jensen cut the
student’s throat.
“Did you know you were going
up there for a killing that night?” As
sistant District Attorney John Blay-
Jock asked Boze.
Jensen and Boze, both 17, are
charged with attempted murder
and aggravated assault in the Oct. 6,
1997, attack of Gabriel Cortez, 18, in
the barracks of the Harlingen
boarding school.
However, Boze agreed to plead
guilty to a charge of deadly con
duct in exchange for testifying
against his former buddy. Defense
attorneys contend he is lying and
that Jensen was asleep during the
pre-dawn attack.
Boze told jurors that the
evening before the attack, Jensen
asked him if he would “help him
get even with Cortez.” Boze ac
knowledged that both he and
Jensen disliked the other cadet.
Boze said he agreed to help, be
lieving they were going to “throw a
blanket party,” a hazing ritual in
which a cadet is covered with a
blanket and beaten with socks filled
with either soap or padlocks.
Blanket parties are “fairly com
mon” at MMA, he testified.
At 3 a.m. the next day, Boze tes
tified, Jensen woke him and the two
snuck down the hall and up the
stairs of the Bravo Company bar
racks to Cortez’s room.
As Boze stood watch, Jensen
jumped the sleeping cadet, he tes
tified. The roommates then ran
back to their quarters as Cortez
began screaming.
It was not until later, Boze testi
fied, that he realized the extent of
the attack. He said Jensen told him
the following afternoon that he had
gone to visit Cortez in the sick bay
and was “surprised Cortez was not
hurt worse because he’d applied a
lot of pressure.
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