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Manson-Cult Jury Selection Closing
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 11 – The jury to hear the Tate-LaBianca murder trial is expected to be seated Monday, prosecutors indicated Friday as the fourth week of jury selection came to an end. The prosecutors’ decision not to challenge any […]
Tempers Flare in Court at Manson Murder Case Trial
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 10 – Tempers appeared to wear thin yesterday at Charles Manson’s murder trial as both attorneys and the judge in the case sniped at each other in the open courtroom. Trial Judge Charles Older apparently was concerned […]
Hahn Assails Tactics at Slaying Trial
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 10 – Supervisor Kenneth Hahn yesterday criticized the “Roman holiday circus” atmosphere which he said is surrounding the Charles Manson murder trial. Hahn, in an impromptu news conference, claimed courtroom tactics by defense and prosecution attorneys and […]
Testimony Sought From Polanski
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 8 – A prosecutor said Tuesday in Los Angeles that film director Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate’s husband, will testify at the trial of four persons accused of killing the actress and six other persons. “I’m relatively sure […]
New Jury Panel Asked In Tate Case
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 7 – A judge asked a new panel of jurors at the Sharon Tate murder case Monday whether they could give the four defendants a fair trial, Twelve citizens stood up and said they could not. A […]
Ex-UW Librarian Seeks Release in L.A. Murder Case
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 7 – Former University of Wisconsin librarian Mary Brunner, 26, charged in the torture-slaying last year of bagpipe musician Gary Hinman, today sought release on the grounds that she had allegedly been granted immunity from prosecution by […]
Tate Slaying Trial Taking on Look Of 3-Ring Circus
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 6 – Opening its fourth week at the Hall of Justice, the Sharon Tate murder trial is taking on the colorful complexity of a three-ring circus, with all participants doing their own thing. With a jury still […]
12 in Tate Jury Panel Want Out
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 6 – The third panel of 48 prospective jurors was brought into Los Angeles Superior Court today in the opening of the fourth week of the massacre murder trial of Charles Manson and three of his girl […]
Manson Clan of Girls Hanging On to Memories
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 5 – A year ago, there were about 45 members of the hippie “family” that lived a communal existence on a crumbling movie ranch in the arid, boulder-strewn mountains at the northern end of the San Fernando […]
Women on Trial Draw Pictures
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 4 – Swathed in satin capes, three women defendants in the Sharon Tate murder trial whispered and drew pictures on yellow legal pads Friday as the third tedious week of jury selection droned to a close. The […]
Tate Case Prosecutor Hit on Query
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 3 – The chief prosecutor in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial was accused of misconduct today after questioning a prospective juror. Dep. Dist. Atty. Aaron Stovitz, who also faces an earlier contempt charge, was charged with misconduct by […]
LSD Said Key In Tate Murder
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 3 – A defense attorney in the Sharon Tate murder case, questioning prospective jurors, intimated Thursday in Los Angeles the effects of the hallucinatory drug LSD could become key to the case. Attorney Paul Fitzgerald, mentioning the […]
Manson Sues for Millions
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 3 – Charles Manson has sued Dist. Ally. Evelle J. Younger, Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess and 10 others for $1 million each accusing them of violating his civil rights. Manson, on trial with three female codefendants in […]
Manson Case Girl Fails Again to Fire Attorney
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 2 – One of Charles Manson’s codefendants, Leslie Van Houten 19, yesterday failed for the third time to fire her attorney, Ira K. Reiner. The reason was the same as on Tuesday — she did not want […]
Charles Watson Wins New Extradition Delay
AUSTIN, Tex., Jul. 2 – Charles “Tex” Watson, the sixth defendant in the Tate-LaBianca murder case, has won at least another 30-day delay in being returned to California, the district attorney’s office reported yesterday. Elvyn Holt, head of the district […]
DA to Seek Hearing into Qualifications of Kanarek
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 2 – Dist. Atty. Evelle J. Younger today had announced unprecedented plans to petition the State Supreme Court to order a hearing into the qualifications of Charles Manson’s attorney. Younger said he was making the move because […]
Teacher Seated As Manson Juror
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 2 – A teacher at the same high school in which one of the defendants in the Tate-LaBianca mass murder case was homecoming princess was seated tentatively today as a juror as the slow process of selecting […]
It Looks Like A Long Loony Trial
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 1 – One of the curiosities about covering a big trial in the U.S. is that the authorities spare no effort to help the press — even at the expense of forfeiting a fair trial for the […]
Tate Figure Fails To Fire Her Lawyer
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 1 – One of the three young women charged along with Charles Manson in the Tate-La Bianca murders tried for a second time yesterday to fire her lawyer. Leslie Van Houten, 19, stood up at the counsel […]
Attorney for Manson Filed Against; DA
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 1 – Los Angeles Dist. Atty. Evelle J. Younger turned in the California Supreme Court Tuesday in an effort to remove the attorney for cultist Charles Manson in the Tate-La Bianca case. Younger told a press conference […]
