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s, co-producer Dir JASPER (AP) — The third white
tan 10 stand trial in the dragging
>ho restaurant named ea th of a black man testified yes-
lerated meeting place, (r |3y that he tried to stop the at-
;ase at San Simeonu, lC k|but one of his buddies threat-
5 ancras railway statior^ed him, leaving him paralyzed
ng back to the 1870si 'ith iear.
;hton House, a one-tir “j couldn’t move,” 24-year-old
and gallery, doubledihw^n Allen Berry, who could get
m. ieHeath penalty like his two com
ic was found in the.'anions for the slaying last year of
king for a scene imps Byrd Jr., said.
>d into a swimmingpi; “I’ve never been in a position
Mat ion was incredibli there I couldn’t move before.”
" Djurkovic marvels. Berry said he was so scared he
i an interview mo,Tet his pants beside the road,
ing, director Rossv, Bvrd, 49, _
icular delight in oneS^s chained
tic sleight-of-handth Y his ankles
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s Bloomsbury Squaielhch an d
es of Louis B. Mayer|«g ed to
s had to be frosteds ' eces near
al one of the city’s few as P or * n one
■ the na-
“/Ve never been in a
position where I could
n't move before.'
the street beyond,
m very happy to te® sgiisliest
world, people an :^ c ‘ a cnmes
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king that for Souther
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William
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3C " , 0rwo avowed white supremacist
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first came acrossOtl^ 25 and , Lawrence
V'T a 1 irewer, 32, separately were con-
V-e'::'? tiled and sentenced to die.
ne\ u ete alwaysterrf Kerry said he and the other men
and Mime Med. , ave gy rc j a gf t) anc j t j iat a ft e r a
,r," Welle.s, is pro ^hile, King and Brewer tried to pull
Wes Ciaven s ho. 3y rc j f rom t g e truck.
Moon and Jakobwl®3 err y testified he tried to break
hen ( itizen /utneope:jp t he scuffle, but King called him
o look the part a lnigger lover” and said that he
playing the part, Ii'Qould meet the same fate that
say, ’ 1 his is an alter: awaited Byrd.
I. "Like that 8 reate f'H“I couldn’t do anything more to
e’s another Spock,: s top it,” Berry testified.
said he then allowed King
idying anoff-Broadw:a* Brewer to kick Byrd, spray-
ility. His "Hamlet" op paint his face and chain his feet to
or. the back of Berry’s truck,
in the same year? “fBBerry said King then took the dri-
ike,” Schreiber said, ver’s seat, while he was in the mid-
f hubris ever!" die and Brewer was on the passen
ger side, and "they started dragging
* ;[him]. ”
Afterward, Berry said, he helped
wash blood off his truck and the
logging chain because he believed
he was guilty of murder.
“In my mind I was just as guilty
as they were for being there, ” Berry
said. “And I didn’t want to go to the
police.”
Berry was driving when the men
picked up Byrd. Berry testified that
King suggested they “whip his ass.”
Defense attorney Joseph “Lum”
Hawthorn asked Berry why he
would give a black man a ride after
such a suggestion from King.
“I just thought it was the same
old Bill,” Berry said. He said King
had a penchant
for making al
cohol-fueled
threats with
which he never
followed
through.
Jasper
County District
Attorney Guy
James Gray
asked Berry
— Shawn Allen Berry
Third Jasper defendant
ZIP.
why he was so afraid if King indeed
was such a blowhard. Berry ex
plained he was afraid because this
time, King seemed to be carrying
out his threat against Byrd.
Gray also needled Berry about
his failure to notify authorities af
ter Byrd was killed, but Berry stuck
to his explanation.
As to why Berry associated with
King and Brewer, Berry said he did
not realize the extent to which
prison had changed his longtime
pal King into a racist.
Berry spent about four and a
half hours on the stand before the
prosecution began its rebuttal.
State District Judge Joe Bob Gold
en recessed at day’s end while con
sidering whether to allow the state
to admit pictures of King and Brew
er’s racist tattoos.
Gray wants to show the jury that
Berry’s friends were so coated in
hateful messages that he should
have known they would be a threat
to a Byrd.
Drug trade
down since
gang arrest
AUSTIN (AP) — Law en
forcement officials said illegal
drug trade in Austin has slowed
since the arrest of the city’s top
dealer and alleged leader of a vi
olent prison gang.
“For right now, it’s probably
put a substantial dent in (drug
trade),” Ralph De LaFuente, a
detective with the Austin Police
Department’s gang unit, said.
Hector Soto, 34, of Austin
and 21 others were indicted on
federal drug conspiracy charges.
The indictments were released
Monday.
“A lot of the peripheral people
who were working with them
didn’t get popped, but they aren’t
getting supplied,” De LaFuente
told the Austin-American States
man. “Others are laying low.”
According to the indictments,
11 pounds of cocaine and 440
pounds of marijuana were
brought in from Mexico from
July through October by the
gang and sold in Austin.
The street price for a pound of
marijuana is $350 to $500, while
the 1.1 pounds of cocaine sells
for $8,000 to $9,000 and 2.2
pounds costs as much as
$17,500.
Police said nine of those in
dicted are members of the Texas
Syndicate, one of the state’s most
famous and powerful gangs that
has links with to criminal activi
ties within and without the
prison system.
The others were believed to
have been working for the gang.
The arrests came after a year
long multi-agency investigation
of the gang and Soto, who police
say joined the Texas Syndicate
while serving drug and burglary
sentences in state prison from
1994 to 1997.
Man to be retried after jury’s uncertainty
■HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston man accused of
;i|ing his 55-year-old mother last year after he said
he devil made him do it will be retried for the crime.
■A jury deadlocked last week over whether Steven
iosenbaum, 27, slayed his mother March 31, 1998,
ml then fled to South Dakota. Miriam Rosenbaum,
^TTENTlOls found stabbed 35 times in the apartment she
ared with her son.
lass of 20f Prosecutor Kaylynn Williford said Monday she
>n’t be left out of the:' v f' retry Rosenbaum after a state district judge
gici.iiui! Get your Fjjranted a defense motion for mistrial late Friday af-
iiior picture taken ai er iurors failed to reach a verdict after three days of
otography. kxtended deliberations.
gs arc also available fori ITwo jurors told The Houston Chronicle that 10 of
at 141o TexasAve.Soutll| m wanted to convict Rosenbaum for the murder,
i 693-8183. Open 9-i2; )ut sa id two others were holding out for a plea of not
l( )_5 Mm kilty by reason of insanity.
■Doctors testified in Rosenbaum’s defense that he
AGG IELAND ndee d thought the devil had cast a spell that drove
him insane and that voices convinced him to kill his
mother because she was possessed — and evil enough
to destroy the universe.
But Williford told jurors the psychological assess
ments of Rosenbaum were invalid because the physi
cians didn’t have all the information they needed, such
as letters written before his mother’s death that por
trayed Rosenbaum as an angry Satan-worshipper but
not insane.
Williford also argued that Rosenbaum appeared
well enough to try and hide his murderous actions: he
fled Texas, he took crime-scene evidence and he
drained his bank account before boarding a bus to
South Dakota.
He got off the bus in Wichita, Kan., and was ar
rested after being spotted looking in the windows of
several downtown businesses.
It was not clear when the case would be heard
again.
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