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12A1 Trws Miami News Wednesday, April 18, 1984 WO Boy pleads innocent in claci's killing Lawyer who won't work on Passover cited for contempt VERNE WILLIAMS Miami News lopfrfor Associatd Prts I 7 i 1 i 4 t) ty' 1, i ri 4 44 ,4 1 I' tpi- .4...4, 4 I -r, 4 4 i I 0 1 4 1.,,, I 1- NI 4 i tt It A 0 $,, I 1 4 4,4 1 f' t. i 1, i I I I 'I' 1 i. 1- 6 -''k- -t4 i 1 a i- 7- 4, 1 141, 0,0,, 4 '4 111,0044 .) Ng, r. lefr i that are unpopular." the Judge said. "I'm giving you the exact same I would give a Christian who made the same request for Good Friday.

Be here." The confrontation developed after Jackson asked Roettger to cancel the Fort Lauderdale trial yes. terday and today and next Monday and Tuesday for the holy days. Passover began Monday at sundown. "It's a nine-defendant, four-week criminal case that is expensive," the judge said. "Canceling the four days would turn it into a five-week trial." "I'm shocked that he refused to grant my motion," the attorney said.

"The fact that the judge never heard of this before Is not relevant It's a right guaranteed to me under the Constitution." The Judge had offered to the stop the trial at 4 p.m. on the holy days. "If the marshals arrest me, I will fight it up to the Supreme Court," Jackson said. "I'm sure I will be vindicated on a level somewhere above Judge Roettger." But Roettger said such work bans were an "unusual practice" for Jews. Another attorney in the case.

Alvin Entin, who is Jewish, agreed to work shorter days rather than stopping the trial. FORT LAUDERDALE A fed. eras judge will allow an Orthodox Jewish lawyer to turn himself In to. morrow on a contempt-of-court citation tor refusing to attend a client's ts ial during Passover. Attorney Steven Jackson cited religious beliefs which he said pre.

vent him from working in this case, de fending a drug-smuggling defendant during the first two and last two days of the Jewish hot. iday. U.S. District Judge Norman Roettger decided yesterday he wouldn't have Jackson, 34, arrested and brought to court on one of Judaism's most holy days. But Jackson has been ordered to appear tomorrow to explain why he staye I away from court yesterday.

The judge also ordered another attorney, Jeffrey Miller, to study the Howard A. Jones case and to represent the defendant as the trial got under way today. "I answer to a higher authority than the court in this matter," the Fort Lauderdale attorney told the Judge Monday. "The (Jewish) law says no manner of work should be done on that day. It's a tradition I've observed since childhood." "I don't shy away from rulings Foul-teen-year-old Clarence Carr today pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of his father last month.

The blond seventh-grader, wearIng a gray sweatshirt and jeans, appeared untroubled as he stood be. tore Circuit Judge Tom Scott and heard three psychiatrists appointed to examine him. The doctors are to report their findings to Scott on May 7. Defense attorney Vincent Gable told the Judge that Carr and his mother, Wilma were insolvent and could not pay for attorneys' fees and the costs of investigating the case. Scott granted a motion that the boy's defense be paid by the state.

Gable told the judge that the boy had no juvenile record. Scott said he would order that Carr continue to be held in Youth Hall, rather than the Dade County Jail. He set the trial for June 4. The teen-ager told Miami police he shot his father, 33-year-old security guard Clarence Carr at 8:30 a.m. on March 12 as his father lay asleep on a sofa.

He used his father's gun and wore ear protectors Carr Sr. used to shoot the gun in practice. The seventh-grader scrawled a few lines on a scratch pad, explaining his action: "He deserved to die because of the way he treated me and Mom." The boy told police his father had been beating him and his mother for years. FILL from 5A The Miami News LENNY COHEN Pac-Man champ Chris Ayra sits at the video game he completely mastered yesterday Hermit, 83, evicted from forest home Ms. PAC-MAN, from SA Associated Aron $710,000 a year.

"If it's a public building, certain codes have to be followed," Hansen said. "And if its a private structure different codes must be followed. This is the first time a private structure is built on public land. That's where the problem is. But the bottom line is both will make it a safe structure.

"I don't see it as a big negative thing. The contractor has been responsive. If other things have to be done, then we'll do it. It's just going to take a little longer." Officials of Canreal could not be reached for comment. Hansen said FIU will make about $970,000 a year after the dormitory is filled with students.

After 40 years the dormitory becomes university property, she said. September, in time for the fall semester students," said Patricia Hansen, FILI's vice president of student affairs. "There was nothing done wrong by the contractor. Apparently, it is a mixup in which fire codes had to be followed." Hansen said some violations are the result of differing interpretations of the fire code. She said the fire marshal's office views each room of the two-bedroom suites to be separate apartments.

As such, they require thicker fire walls. Also complicating matters is the fact that the dorms will be owned by a private firm, which will rent space to Flu, she said. Fort Lauderdale-based Canreal Properties is building the complex. FLU will then lease the complex for about 11:20 a.m and finished at 8:38 p.m. "It's a shame It quit.

I could have played another nine hours," bragged Ayra, who Is greeted by admirers as "Champ" when he enters the arcade. Ayra critiqued his gamesmanship, which involves Ms. Pac-Man gobbling up "fruit" and "dots" to gain points. "I missed a couple of fruits that could have given me an additional 50,600 points," said the Pub lix meat-cutter. "But that's OK.

It cording to Steve Harris of Twin Galaxies (Iowa) International Scoreboard, a video arcade generally recognized by the video game industry as the "official" recordkeeper of video game scores worldwide. "I knew Ayra would get the record, but I never thought he'd actually clear all 133 screens," Harris said in a telephone interview last night. "I didn't think it could be done." The Southridge Senior High School graduate started play about leaves me something else to shoot for." Play in the arcade came to a standstill while Ayra maneuvered through his last maze. When it was over, Ayra walked away as some of his friends chanted "Champ, Champ, Champ." The record Is not all that Ayra owns. Bantle Id honored Ayra by giving him the Ms.

Pac-Man machine, valued at about $1,500. OCALA For two years, an 83- year-old hermit has called Big Bass Campground his home, but campers he overstayed the 14- day limit and U.S. marshals have evicted him. Floyd David Hall says he survived winters by tramping through Ocala National Forest to keep warm. He foraged through garbage cans for food left by campers, and slept In a rusty station wagon with his two dogs, cat, and four kittens.

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