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Asbury Park Press Saturday, Feb. 26, 1994 A3 NEW JERSEY New trial ordered in police killing Court rules evidence withheld in 77 murder of Newark officer State Department of Labor officials said yesterday that businesses within the state have created 77,000 new jobs since March of 1992, rather than cutting 40, 1000 jobs as had been reported earlier. Page A8 Foodarama Supermarkets Freehold, has reported a net loss of $1,965,000 for the fiscal year ended Oct 30, which it blamed on a supermarket strike last May and expenses connected with the sale of five stores in Long Island. Page A8 Researchers at Merck Co. reported yesterday that after promising initial results, an AIDS drug to block an enzyme from making the virus multiply now appears to stop working early in treatment Page C12 numerous armed robberies, the court said.

Newly discovered evidence including fingerprints and ballistics tests disclosed that the witness and an associate had committed an earlier armed robbery in which the gun that was used to kill Snow had been fired. The court said the state also suppressed evidence that the only witness to the shooting said the alleged gunman had "curlier" hair than Landano. Meanwhile, another individual who may have seen the suspects before the robbery and shooting also rejected Landano's photograph because the person she met was "younger" than the defendant. "There is a reasonable probability the outcome of the trial would have been different had this evidence withheld by the state been disclosed," the court said. "This constitutional violation undermines our confidence in the jury's verdict and warrants a reversal of defendant's convictions." Both Landano and Mullin said they welcome a new trial.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON A man who for 18 years fought to clear his name in the killing of a Newark police officer won a partial victory yesterday when an appeals court ruled prosecutors withheld crucial evidence from his defense. A three-judge state panel ordered a new trial for V. James Landano, convicted in 1977 of murdering Newark policeman John Snow during the robbery of a check-cashing business in Kearny the previous summer. Landano has contended all along another man pulled the trigger. He alleged prosecutorial misconduct and suppression of evidence in prior appeals in the state court system, but those ended in failure.

A federal judge overturned Landa-no's conviction in 1989 on a finding of prosecutorial misconduct, and ordered him freed after he had served 13 years behind bars. But a federal appeals panel later reinstated the conviction and remanded the matter back to think the opinion is courageous and strongly condemning that kind of prosecutorial activity." Donald L. Gardner, the assistant Hudson County prosecutor who argued the case, said his office has 20 days to appeal to the state Supreme Court and would take the time to carefully review the 54-page ruling. "We want to make a very sound and reasoned decision," Gardner said. The Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey said prosecutors withheld evidence that the person who identified Landano was under investigation for loansharking, money laundering and links to organized crime.

The state also suppressed evidence that its chief witness, who testified against Landano, had been involved in a longstanding criminal venture with others and that they had committed Insurance policy casts new fight on Thomas Edison it I I lift 1 I if THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST ORANGE Thomas Edison suffered indigestion, sinus problems, some deafness in both ears, smoked heavily and was overweight. But the famed inventor lived to be 84, beating the health hazards that led four life insurance companies to deny him coverage. The personal tidbits are in a life insurance policy the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York donated yesterday to the Edison National Historic Site at the research laboratory where Edison invented the phonograph and filmed the first motion pictures. Edison told Mutual Life that at least four other insurers turned him down for reasons, ranging from sugar in his urine, indicative of his diabetes, to his excessive "belly." He was tall and weighed 186 pounds with a 42-inch waist. But Mutual's primary concern when it wrote Edison's first policy for $10,000 in 1893 was not his health.

"We were excluded on paying a death benefit if he was electrocuted," said Thomas Lanahan, general manager for the company's Morristown office. "The policy said this guy fools around with some-ig called Edison, born in was expected to live only 42 to ac the state courts. Landano has remained free on bail. Landano's attorney, Neil Mullin, faced another state appeals panel five weeks ago and argued for a new trial, citing new evidence supporting his client's claims of innocence and the state's suppression of crucial evidence. The judges agreed and reversed Landano's conviction.

Landano, reached at his attorney's West Orange office where he works as a paralegal, likened the feeling to winning an Olympic gold medal. "It really hasn't sunk in yet," said Landano, 54, of Metuchen. "It's been an 18-year struggle and finally, finally there is no doubt. I have been totally vindicated." "There's a finding here that the state deliberately suppressed evidence of a man's innocence," Mullin said. "I tuarial tables of the period, Lanahan said.

Edison was insured for $110,000 an amount four times the average for that era when he died in 1931. "When he died, he had beat all the odds," Lanahan said. The policies were donated as part of Mutual Life's 150th anniversary celebration with other donations elsewhere including the policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Will Rogers. Edison named his three children from his second marriage as the beneficiaries.

The three children from his first marriage contested the policy, setting off a court battle. The six children ultimately agreed to split the policy. The site's archivist, George Tselos, said Edison had grown apart from the daughter and two sons of his first marriage after his wife Mary died in 1884. "He didn't know anything about raising children," Tselos said, adding that Edison was devastated by his wife's death. "Basically, he turned over the raising of the kids to his inlaws." "There was always a certain tension between Edison's second family and his first children," Tselos said.

Tselos was not surprised to learn that Edison took poor care of himself, describing how the inventor would stay up all hours on a project only to catnap during the day on his work bench or the floor. said in a statement inserted into yesterday's Congressional Record. "It was anti-gay. It was anti-white. It was vicious, divisive and harmful." On the day of his scheduled speech at Trenton State, the New York-based Jewish Defense Organization plans an outdoor campus demonstration, the state Legislature has scheduled a special session to denounce hate speech and Gov.

Christie Whitman says she will take part in a panel discussion as part of a free-screening of "Schindl-er's List," Steven Spielberg's film about the Holocaust in Edison. Sen. Bill Bradley, D-NJ. will also be speaking to Ewing high school students Monday, and Rep. Dick Zimmer, will attend an inter-faith vigil across the street from the college.

Watson said at the rally that Muhammad plans to attend the movie with Whitman Monday. However the governor has not received a request from Muhammad to attend the event, Whitman spokeswoman Rita Manno said. 16' 32' Grecian Full Financing (No Home Equity Required) Public policy: Thomas D. Lanahan of the Mutual of New York insurance company shows a copy of an original life insurance policy for Thomas Edison to Natalie Mathusek, 9, of River Edge. The insurance company donated the policy to the Edison research laboratory.

Motor vehicle director leaving post in April siranon "SKip- Lee: announced yesterday his resignation as director of the state's Division of Motor Vehicles. Lee, who was appointed to the position by former Gov. James J. Florio in 1991, will join Lockheed Information Management Systems, a company that does a substantial amount of business with transportation agencies and is known for recruiting officials from those agencies. Lee's resignation will take effect April 15.

Gov. Whitman hasn't yet named a replacement. Man gets 50 year term for raping woman twice WOODBURY: A judge yesterday sentenced a man who raped a Gloucester County woman twice after breaking into her home to 50 years in prison. Under the sentence imposed by Superior Court Judge Donald Smith Damon Lee Thornton, 31, of Paulsboro, must serve at least 25 years before becoming eligible for parole. Authorities said Thornton forced the woman into a bedroom where he sexually assaulted the victim.

He also allegedly stole a piggy bank belonging to the victim's son. Thornton took the victim's car keys and went outside to start the car, but returned and raped her a second time. Cross-dressing escapee apprehended by police CAMDEN: An inmate who escaped from the Camden County Jail in a daring breakout last year dressed in drag and used fake names to elude authorities for 10 months. But police investigating a robbery early Thursday unh-owingly captured Danny Lamont vmith, 30, of Camden. He was back in the jail yesterday after having been on the lam since April 10 when he escaped along with four other inmates.

To avoid capture, Smith dressed in drag and used at least nine aliases male and female namer authorities said. He was dressed in clothing when arrested. Sixth-grader arrested for drugs, loaded gun JERSEY CITY: An 11-year-old boy was arrested after showing off a loaded semiautomatic handgun to fellow sixth-grade students in school. Students told authorities about tHe boy's display Wednesday, and poSee searching his book bag came up w. a handgun as well as 60 vials of cocaine with a street value of 1 about $600.

He was later released to his parents. Man, 70, found guilty of sex assault on girl, 8 NEW BRUNSWICK: A 70-year-old man, who escaped from a Florida prison 37 years ago, was rushed to a hospital after collapsing when a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting his 8-year-old granddaughter. Claude Gibson, who had long used the alias Claude Akridge, was treated yesterday at Kobert Wood Johnson University Hospital and then taken to the Middlesex County jail. Gibson fell to the floor minutes after the Superior Court jury found the self-employed plumber guilty of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The prosecutor's office discovered Gibson was a fugitive wanted in Florida while running a fingerprint check with the FBI.

Deputy chief to head troubled police force SOUTH HACKENSACK: The deputy chief was put in charge yesterday of this small township's police department, which was shaken by the resignation last month of its chief and three other officers amid a probe into charges of gambling and favoritism. The 21-person department for this township had been run since Jan. 31 by the Bergen County prosecutor's office after the resignation of Chief Arthur Montenegro. Bergen County Prosecutor John Fahy said deputy chief Gene Roman will be the interim chief. Compiled from Press staff reports and Press wire services Islamic speaker's supporters stage protest Feb.

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Foderaro Editorial Page Edrtor (908) 922-6000 (ext 4456) Aiiociited Press Tselos was intrigued, however, that Edison listed a tattoo on his right arm as an identifying mark. "None of us ever had heard about a tattoo so we're all kind of fascinated by it," Tselos said. flammatory remarks and distortion of the facts, regarding this event," college spokeswoman Sue Baldwin-Way said in a prepared statement. Baldwin-Way said the officials sent the letter because of Burton's statement Tuesday that Muhammad's security would be protected by any means necessary. Many people at the rally alluded to safety concerns because they said groups like the Klu Klux Klan and White Aryan Nation would be congregating on the campus the night of Muhammad's speech.

But Baldwin-Way said only one group is authorized to hold a campus event that evening the Jewish War Veterans. She said the organization registered to have about 100 people attend. AVe'd from "He was both a genius and something of a character," Tselos said. "He cared nothing, despite his fame and later in life his wealth, for status. He rarely dressed up, and went around the lab in his work clothes." Michael Burton, student chairman of the Afrikan American History Month Committee, started yesterday's rally by reading the same statement as he did at a news conference he held Tuesday.

The statement accused the college of not permitting Muhammad to have five bodyguards on the stage and 15 in the crowd. Instead, he will have two bodyguards on stage, Burton said. Burton, who has received death threats for inviting Muhammad to campus, added that he could not bring two bodyguards to the speech since he was allotted only two tickets. Tickets for the scheduled appearance in the hall that holds 344 people sold out in 90 minutes Monday. Burton also ripped up a letter he said the college sent to Muhammad and himself asking Muhammad to promise that he would abide by the contract.

Under its terms, Trenton State is assuming responsibility for security arrangements. "It is not surprising, but unfortunate, that Mr. Burton continues his in Lifetime Guarantee Tf' Xj THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EWING TOWNSHIP Former Nation of Islam spokesman Khallid Abdul Muhammad's long-debated speech at Trenton State College is going to disappoint many people, a community activist said yesterday. "You have created a man that doesn't exist," Shahid Israel Watson of Trenton, who calls himself a black Jew, said at a rally. "I've talked to my brother every day.

If Khallid said something wrong at Kean, he has corrected himself." Nearly 200 people, including students from other New Jersey colleges, attended the rally in front of the college's administration building. Organizers said they wanted to protest actions taken by the school regarding the speech. Muhammad was invited to speak on Feb. 28 by the student-run Afrikan American History Month Committee on the topic of "The Impact of Marcus Garvey." The school said Muhammad will receive a $2,500 speaking fee. Muhammad drew national attention last November during a speech at Kean College in Union where he insulted Jews, Catholics, whites and homosexuals.

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