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Cos Angeles Cunes Wednesday, July 29, 1981 Part I 17 SALE ENDS SATURDAY, AUGUST 1ST. HURRY, SOME QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED! Tough Decisions Continued from First Fie months, then filed claims accompanied by death certificates that had been altered to show the same date of birth as the policy applications. Our deliberations were made more difficult yet because much of the evidence was circumstantial and because the defendant was not accused of being present when the murder was committed. Among those on our jury, in addition to the Hughes Aircraft project manager and the assistant to the headmaster, were two housewives, a steel company executive, a retiree, an official of a teachers union, an office supervisor for the Southern California Rapid Transit District and a school teacher. Five were women.

None Had Previous Jury Experience None of the jurors had had previous jury experience, and some were surprised and perhaps disappointed that the testimony did not make the case jump out in stark black and white. But testimony was contradictory in some instances, and memories of some witnesses were blurred it had been three years since the murder. Furthermore, the witnesses had not been presented to us in a logical sequence a circumstance apparently dictated by their availability. Thus, when the jurors began deliberations, there was some confusion about the previous nine days of testimony. There was also relief that the facts of the case could at last be discussed.

During the days of testimony, the judge had admonished us that the case was not to be discussed among jurors or with anyone else until deliberations began. After a foreman had been chosen, the jury took up the insurance counts. There were six of them and they seemed easiest to decide: the defendant had admitted on the stand that she had lied on both the insurance applications and claims. It took only a few hours to find her guilty of these counts. Then, after recessing for the weekend, we took up the grand theft charge.

It promised to be more difficult. In fact, the jury was deadlocked 6 to 6 after its first vote. After further discussion, the vote moved to 10 to 2 in favor of conviction. Most of the jurors thought it would be helpful to listen COMPACT MIST CURLING IRON REGULARLY 14.99 Only 10" long so you can take it anywhere. Swivel cord prevents tangles, has built-in stand.

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Briefs in X-size. again to the testimony of the defendant. It was. After the court reporter reread her testimony, the jury voted unanimously for conviction on the charge. That left the two most serious charges murder and conspiracy to murder.

It would require nearly four days of deliberation to decide them. "It was a heavy responsibility for all of us," Pat a Glendale homemaker, said later. "And we needed each other's support. No one ever wanted to find this woman guilty of murder. I don't think any of us went in there with that intent.

It was disturbing to all of us." The jury began consideration of these two counts by discussing the evidence that directly related to them: The victim was talking on the telephone on a Saturday night with a friend who heard him exclaim: "What do you want? What do you want? What do you want?" She heard no more. A neighbor of the victim testified that she heard three shots a short time after she had seen three young men walk by her house toward the victim's house. She also said that she saw a car she identified as the defendant's leave the scene just after she saw the three men. The defendant testified that she had visited her ex-husband that evening but that it had been at least an hour earlier. Another witness, a woman who knew the victim, testified that she was driving by his house that evening, heard three shots and saw three men looking in the window.

She said she followed as they walked to a white car a block away, got in and drove off. Then, the witness said, she followed unobserved by driving parallel to the white car in the same direction, but a block away. Took Down License Number At an intersection she saw the white car turn, she said, and she followed it to a red light where she took down its license number. Then she returned to the victim's house and gave that number to police officers who had arrived on the scene. Police traced the number to a rental car agency.

The next morning, the defendant was arrested when she went to the agency to return the white car. A police detective questioned her that Sunday morning and she told him that she had rented the car because the brakes on her own automobile were faulty. She had intended to drive the rented car to visit her sister in Palmdale, she said. She added that she had noticed that morning that the car was unlocked, although she thought she had locked it the night before. And, she said, she believed that it might have been moved a few feet.

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