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HERALD TIMES REPORTER www.htraews.com Thursday, March 9, 2006A5 WASHINGTON New attorney takes Dassey case Appleton lawyer Len Kachinsky says a plea bargain for the teen is possible GOP House panel votes to defy Bush, block ports deal Friday he is a distant relative of Halbach's. In addition to being a private attorney, Kachinsky has served as town of Menasha municipal judge since 1997. Dassey, 16, is charged as an adult with first-degree intentional homi sional opposition to the deal have not been successful. Bush has promised to veto any such measure passed by Congress. But there is widespread public opposition to the deal and the GOP fears losing its advantage on the issue of national security in this fall's elections.

The White House said the president's position was unchanged. "This is a national security issue," said Rep. Jerry Lewis, the chairman of the House panel, adding that the legislation would "keep America's ports in American hands." As the committee acted, Democrats on the other side of the Capitol maneuvered for a vote in the GOP-led Senate. sault, torture and homicide of Halbach, a 25-year-old freelance photographer from St. John who disappeared Oct 31 after taking a photo of a minivan Avery had for sale at his family's salvage yard west of Mishicot.

Dassey is being held at a juvenile facility in Sheboygan in lieu of $250,000 cash bail. He is scheduled to appear in Manitowoc County Circuit Court on March 17 for a status conference. Kachinsky said he would meet Friday with Dassey, who earlier waived his right to a preliminary hearing, and said Avery's alleged coercion of his nephew will be at the center of the case. "A 16-year-old is pretty vulnerable," he told the Appleton Post-Crescent. "It is probably something that will go more to the penalty stage than to guilt or innocence.

"Coercion is pretty tough (to prove). Coercion has nothing to do with the taking of a human life. "He (Dassey) probably didn't know what he was walking into. He probably had choices, but he made the wrong choice, if the confession is accurate." Kachinsky said he has served as a prosecutor or defense counsel in more than 250 jury trials, and represented clients in more 350 appeals in state and federal courts. He said he has handled at least 20 homicide cases, and up to 30 including appeals.

Kevin Braley of the Herald Times Reporter and John Lee of the Appleton Post-Crescent contributed to this report. Associated Press WASHINGTON In a congressional election-year repudiation of President Bush, a House panel dominated by Republicans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to block a Dubai-owned firm from taking control of some U.S port operations. Democrats clamored for a vote in the Senate, too. By 62-2, the House Appropriations Committee voted to bar DP World, run by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, from holding leases or contracts at US. ports.

The landslide vote was the strongest signal yet that more than three weeks of White House efforts to stunt congres DASSEY Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers APPLETON The Apple-ton attorney who will represent a teenager charged in the Teresa Halbach homicide said Wednesday a plea bargain is possible. "Certainly it's a possibility, depending on the circumstances surrounding the taking of the statement whether that is challengeable or not," said Len Kachinsky, who was appointed this week to represent Brendan Dassey of rural Mishicot. But that plea, Kachinsky said, depends "on what the special prosecutor offers." Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz, the special prosecutor, declined comment Wednesday on a possible plea. "I haven't had any discussions with Mr. Kachinsky yet, so it is premature," Kratz said Kachinsky, of Menasha, was appointed by the State Public Defender's Office on Tuesday to represent Dassey, after Ralph Sczygelski formally withdrew on Monday.

The appointment was signed by Manitowoc County Circuit Judge Jerome Fox, who is presiding in the case. Sczygelski found out after Dassey's initial appearance on cide, first-degree sexual assault and mutilation of corpse. Dassey faces life in prison if convicted of the homicide charge and a combined 72 Vi years in prison if convicted of the sexual assault and mutilation charges. He is charged with aiding his uncle, Steven Avery, in the as- Fabulous savings Friday Saturday, March 10 A jL- -r, I -J 1 I 'J Via i 50 off 40 off 40 off 40-50 off Final days of our Women's Comfort Shoe Bonus Buys! Great savings on styles made for your comfort. Reg.

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31, 2005, the complaint says. After Dassey sexually assaulted Halbach who was naked and shackled to Avery's bed he and Avery killed the woman and threw her body in a fire pit to conceal the crime, according to the complaint. The affidavit says Avery bought handcuffs and leg shackles at Intimate Treasures, an adult retail store on Washington Street in Manitowoc, on Oct 9, 2005. A store employee said Avery was accompanied by his sister, Barb Janda, and that he paid cash for his purchase, according to the affidavit Halbach was reported missing on Nov. 3 and her partially hidden sports utility vehicle was.

found at Avery's Auto Salvage on Nov. 5, according to the complaint Dassey was charged last Thursday with first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree sexual assault and mutilating a corpse. He faces life in prison if convicted of the homicide charge and up to 72 Vi years in prison for the remaining charges. Avery, who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, described to inmates, in detail, his plans for a torture chamber he would build for "kidnapping, raping and torturing, and then killing the women," the affidavit says. Avery also allegedly told inmates "the way to get rid of a body was to burn them." One inmate told authorities Avery "was always talking about dominance or anger towards women," the affidavit says.

The affidavit to support the state's request on bail says Halbach had been to the Avery property numerous times in 2005 to take pictures for Auto Trader Magazine for which she worked as a freelance photogra- Eher. Halbach complained to er manager, Angela M. Schuster, that on previous trips to Avery's property he answered the door wearing only a towel, the affidavit says. In the morning of Oct. 31, Avery called Auto Trader Magazine, represented himself as someone else and requested Halbach come to the salvage yard to photograph a vehicle, the affidavit says.

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