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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Friday, October 27, 1995 After emotional summations, jury gets police murder case; B6 the nine-day trial. They will resume deliberations today. Emotions ran high in Courtroom 305 as prosecutor Colihan, speaking with the cadence of a tent-revival preacher, began and ended his final argument praising the "men and women in blue" who serve the city. "In order to acquit these men, you must find we have all committed a crime," Colihan told jurors. "We should rejoice that there are men like Charles Knox and Anthony Howard.

These men, brothers in the eyes of God, went shoulder to shoulder into the arms of death. I'm asking you, the jury, to demonstrate that their efforts were not wasted." That brought tears to Arlene Knox, the widow of the slain officer. As she that the jury had heard during the trial. Defense attorneys ridiculed the alleged confessions, saying they were fabricated by overzealous officers who broke down the Ginn brothers' doors and locked them in a room until they gave untrue statements. "If I were really a good detective I'd go to Radio Shack and spend $39.99 so I could tape the interviews, so you folks could really know if it was on the up-and-up," Newman told jurors.

"I'd suggest the police do have the money. They have closed-circuit TV. They assigned 17 detectives to this case. They took trips to Washington, and all over the place, but they don't spend $39.99 on a tape recorder. There's a reason." quietly sobbed, others were swept along.

Tucker Ginn, 35, accused of shooting Knox and Howard, and Allen Ginn, 34, charged with planning the holdup and passing the murder weapon to his brother, bowed their heads. Knox, 31, was shot in the back and head inside the Roy Rogers at Broad Street and Snyder Avenue, and died a short time later. Howard, now 31, was wounded in the arm and chest, and testified at the trial. As the trial drew to a close yesterday, lawyers argued their differing spins on the evidence. Colihan reminded the jury that Tucker Ginn's fingerprint was found on the murder weapon, which was recovered four months after the killing from under 12 inches of water and silt in Cobbs Creek.

Their fingerprints were also found on items recovered at the scene after the shootings. "When Anthony Howard said, 'That's the man (Allen Ginn he wrestled that is not just a guess; that is a good cop doing his job," said Colihan, whose voice cracked. His eyes moistened. At least half the people in the courtroom were in tears. "Allen Ginn said, set the job up, but I'm not the guy who pulled the Tucker Ginn said, 'Look, I pulled the trigger, but only God can take a life.

God killed That man blames God!" said Colihan, referring the defendants' statements to police TRIAL from B1 come up with a shooter and an ac- complice. So they got the wrong "You've seen it in this city. You know what's happened in the 39th Distrct and other places. It's not inconceivable that the police could i frame someone," Newman said, re- ferring the case in which six 39th District officers have admitted fram-I ing! suspects. Colihan shouted an objection and Common Pleas Court Judge John J.

Poserina Jr. agreed, ordering the defense to stick to the evidence. The jurors deliberated for an hour and 20 minutes yesterday before ad-. joufning to the hotel at which they have been sequestered throughout Speaking smoothly and calmly, the defense attorneys frequently re' minded jurors that the law requires prosecutors to prove the defendants' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. "You can't convict Allen Ginn of first-degree murder," Hetznecker said.

"You have no evidence that he had a specific intent to kill and, shared it with the shooter." Newman added, "Somebody committed a second-degree murder, but they haven't proved Tucker Ginn did, Colihan contended that close-range gunshot wounds to Knox's, -back and head were intentional, war- ranting a conviction of first-degree murder. The prosecution is seeking the death penalty. With verve, GOP candidate goes courting Mother tells police she sold son for $500 to buy drugs In her latest statement, she still maintains that the woman offered to take Ke-Shaun off her hands but also says the stranger gave her $500 for the boy. "It's a little bit more believable that she sells him," Brady said. When police asked Vanderhorst what she MOTHER from B1 the 2-year-old," Brady said.

Vanderhorst's latest account of what happened to the toddler is a variation on earlier statements to police, Brady said. All of them begin with the appearance of a strange woman at her apartment, in the 1400 block of North 17th Street, about 4 p.m. did with the money, he said, she answered: "Got high." The mother, who has a history of cocaine' abuse, and her son were reported missing by her sister Oct. 13. Vanderhorst was found hanging out in her neighborhood three Sept.

26. Vanderhorst described the woman as African American, about 5-foot4 and 135 pounds. She wore a maroon skirt and a cream-color jacket and had designer fingernails and she drove away with Ke-Shaun in a The mother's accounts all begin with a strange woman coming to the apartment. she said: "He doesn't look like me. He looks like a WASP." About David, 31, also a lawyer: "He owns a yoga studio, yoga and meditation.

I did yoga every day, until the campaign." About the campaign. "I've gained 38 pounds on the campaign. I stop at Wendy's, and I buy all the junk food." About her wealth. "I wish I had the money people think I have." She says she owns a "small piece" of several syndicated race horses. She has owned percentages in the famous Niatross and his son Nihilator, the latter being syndicated for $19.2 million.

They were two of the fastest pacers ever but, says Newman, "They were not too good in stud." About being a woman. Newman says that, as a woman, she will add something to the court. Asked what, she says this: "Being a woman I just think would bring a certain, well, let me give you this example: Jules is the best father in the world, but I can tell over the phone when my kids have a problem. There's just a certain intuitiveness." And all these comments in a half-hour interview. But, if elected, would she start insisting that people call her Justice Newman? "I promise you not," she said.

"I give you my word. The only one who's going to have to call me 'your honor' is Jules." Newman has abundant energy and experience. For proof, one need only read her resume or try to. It is five pages long, listing everything from her numerous awards to authorship of a three-volume publication titled Alimony, Child Support and Counsel Fees. The multiple listing gives no hint of Newman's unusual frankness and easy sense of humor.

There is seemingly nothing she will not talk about, and she exhales her wheezy, from-deep-down laugh often. The following remarks are entered as evidence: About being projected an easy winner. "That makes me so nervous, it gives me a stomachache," she said. Told that fellow Republican candidate Michael Barrasse called her a "lock" to win one of two openings on the court on Nov. 7, she said: "Like my mother always said, 'From his mouth to God's About her husband.

"I was 19 when I met him. He was working as a waiterand he was studying medicine, but I didn't know that. I thought, 'Geez, he's really She jokes that her husband "married me because I was a challenge, because I had such a bad nose. It had a big bump, and it was a wide nose." At a recent function, Julius Newman looked admiringly at his wife and proclaimed, "That's my nose." About her sons. Of Jonathan, 33, a lawyer and her campaign manager, wanted to be a fashion designer.

Instead, she went to Drexel and studied sciences, later earning a master's degree at Temple in hearing science. "I used to boil gerbils," she said, beginning yet another head-scratch-er of a story. She went on to explain that the animals were used in experiments because "the inner ear of the gerbil is most like humans." Newman did not start law school at Villanova University Law School until after she had two children and was 29. Now she is a faculty member there, as well as an adjunct professor of law at Widener University, After working as a prosecutor, Newman spent nearly 20 years in private practice. She specialized in family law, where she handled some big divorce cases and "made phenomenal money." At the same time, she was politically active, working for the elections of President Ronald Reagan, the late Sen.

John Heinz, former state Attorney General Leroy Zimmerman and other Republicans. Two years ago, she got a call from leaders on the Republican State Committee, who asked her about running for appellate court. After consulting with her family at Camp Newman, her Gladwyne home, she decided to run for Commonwealth Court. She went all out, spending $800,000 in family funds to win that race. NEWMAN from B1 isn't time for them in a debate format! That although her answers to simple questions often lead to almost stream-of-consciousness tales, they ultimately deposit the patient listener safely on land.

Such as the marijuana-plant story that left some people scratching their heads. It came in response to a question about restoring collegiality to the Supreme Court. The story dates to her first day as an', assistant district attorney in Montgomery County. As a joke, her new colleagues took a marijuana plant from the evidence room and presented it to Newman, who did not know that it was anything more than your garden-variety houseplant. Everyone got a big laugh out of it, including Newman.

Newman's point was that she was, and is, someone who appreciated a laugh at her expense, someone who was able to fit in with the boys at work. It will be the same on the Supreme Court, she said. Newman was a prosecutor only a few years; she did not love it. "I had to go see an autopsy," she recalls. "It was the worst experience of my life.

I thought I was going to die in that room." Newman didn't start out to become a lawyer or a judge. Graduating high school at 16, she light-blue, four-door car with a Pennsylvania license plate that began, "The physical description doesn't change. She's consistent on that," Brady said. Initially, Vanderhorst told detectives that the woman was from the Department of Human Services. Later, she said the visitor was a stranger who offered to take the child, saying she knew Vanderhorst was having trouble caring for him.

days later. She has been held at the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center on a parole violation for drug offenses. Detectives have interviewed Vanderhorst on three occasions since she was picked up, Brady said. They have interviewed her neighbors and looked for Ke-Shaun in suspected drug houses. "We checked any number of locations," Brady said.

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