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THE BATTALION Thursday, January 30, 2003
Houston woman aimed vehicle
at husband, stepdaughter says
By Pam Easton
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — An expres-
Isionless Clara Harris said noth-
ling as her husband pleaded for
I her to stop as she ran over him
(with her Mercedes-Benz after
Icatching him with his lover, the
| woman's stepdaughter testified
I Wednesday.
“She stepped on the acceler-
latorand went straight for him,”
117-year-old Lindsey Harris
[recalled for jurors in her step-
Imother’s murder trial. “He was
[really scared. He was trying to
[getaway and he couldn’t."
Clara Harris, 44, is accused
[ofintentionally running over her
[husband David Harris in a hotel
[parking lot July 24.
She has claimed her hus-
| band’s death was an accident.
[Defense attorney George
[Pamham has said she only want-
|ed to save her marriage and
[family.
Prosecutors say the defen
dant became enraged when her
husband chose a woman he was
having an affair with over her
after a confrontation at the same
hotel where David and Clara
Harris were married on
Valentine’s Day a decade earlier.
Lindsey Harris, who was a
passenger in the luxury sedan.
testified her father was struck
once and then her stepmother
circled around and hit him two
more times, never once trying to
avoid him.
She said she screamed and
tried to get out, but couldn’t
because the car was moving
so fast.
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She stepped on
the accelerator and
went straight for
him.
— Lindsey Harris
1 7-year-old stepdaughter of
Clara Harris
When the car finally stopped,
Lindsey Harris said she jumped
out and hit her stepmother.
“I knew she had killed my
dad,” she testified as Clara
Harris sat with her hands cover
ing her face.
“She said, ’I’m so sorry. I’m
so sorry. It was an accident.’ She
knew what she did and she
wasn't sorry.”
Lindsey Harris also told
jurors that her stepmother had
told her just before her father’s
death that “she could kill my
father for what he’s done and
get away with it.”
The teen testified that days
before her father’s death, he had
confessed to Clara Harris about
his affair with Gail Bridges, one
of his office workers.
Lindsey Harris, who had
suspected the affair, said she
was upset with her father for
what he had done. She said her
father and stepmother had
grown apart after the birth of
their twin boys three
years earlier.
The relationship between her
father and stepmother seemed
to improve after Clara Harris
fired Bridges and she thought
everything was going to be all
right, Lindsey Harris said.
She said Clara Harris later
learned her husband was still
sneaking off to meet Bridges,
which prompted her and her
stepmother to search for him on
July 24.
In earlier testimony
Wednesday, the victim’s father,
Gerald Harris, said he still goes
to church with his daughter-in-
law and talked with his grand
daughter on the telephone about
once a week until the murder
trial began Jan. 21. Prosecutors
asked the grandparents to
refrain from contacting Lindsey
Harris because she was feeling
“pressured.”
Andersen lawyer central in Enron
case dismissed from lawsuit
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By Kristen Hays
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — The in-house Arthur Andersen
lawyer whose suggestion to alter a company memo
leda jury to convict the firm of obstruction of justice
isamong several partners released from a massive
iliareholder lawsuit filed in the aftermath of Enron
lorp.’s collapse.
U.S. District Judge Melinda Hannon released
awyer Nancy Temple and four other former
Andersen partners from the $25 billion lawsuit late
Tuesday because plaintiffs didn’t adequately specify
what she and the others allegedly did wrong.
Thirteen other Andersen partners, including for
mer chief executive Joseph Berardino, remain as
defendants in the lawsuit led by the University of
California and other investors that lost millions of
dollars when former Andersen client Enron went
bankrupt in December 2001.
Andersen spokesman Patrick Dorton said nearly
all the partners addressed in Harmon’s ruling no
longer work for the firm, but he declined to specify
who. Temple’s lawyer, Mark Hansen, didn’t return
repeated calls for comment.
Andersen was convicted in June of obstruction
for destroying Enron-related documents in October
and November 2001 as the Securities and Exchange
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their country’s Commission investigated the energy company’s tan
gled finances. Harmon presided over the trial.
Jurors zeroed in on Temple because she advised
David Duncan, a former Andersen partner in charge
of Enron’s account, to remove a sentence and her
name from an internal memo about Enron’s earn
ings. Jurors said her action interfered with the
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Temple has not been charged with any crime.
Last month, the House Energy and Commerce
Committee asked the Justice Department to investi
gate whether she lied to Congress a year ago when
she told the committee she didn’t advise document
destruction to thwart the SEC.
Her testimony focused on an Oct. 12, 2001, e-
mail she sent to Andersen’s Houston office remind
ing workers of a little-known policy to destroy
unneeded documents. Mass shredding of Enron
documents later ensued.
Duncan was fired in January last year and plead
ed guilty to obstruction in April for advising the
Enron team to follow the policy. He is cooperating
with prosecutors, and is slated to be sentenced
in May.
Andy Ramzel, one of the Houston lawyers who
represents Andersen and several of the partners, said
he was pleased that Hannon released five of them
and “we expect our remaining clients will be vindi
cated when all the facts are presented.”
Harmon’s 58-page ruling said most of the law
suit’s allegations target nearly defunct Andersen as
an entity and called allegations against the individu
als “fatally vague and conclusory.”
But the 13 individuals who remain as defendants
— partners at Andersen’s headquarters in Chicago
and in its former Houston office — could have had
control over policy or decisions regarding Enron’s
audits and whether to keep the failed energy giant as
a client, she said.
Trey Davis, spokesman for the university, the
lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, said it didn’t appear
Harmon’s ruling “will ultimately have much impact
on the ability of the class to achieve a meaningful
recovery.”
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