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The Tampa Tribune from Tampa, Florida • 27

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The Tampa Tribunei
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3-B Bundy Case Witness Subject Of Florida Perjury Investigation Inspection Stations Retained THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thursday, February 4, 1982 By TOM INGLIS Staff Writer The trial was held in Orlando after being moved first from Lake City in northern Florida to nearby Live Oak. Bundy was convicted and sentenced to death. The handsome former law student already had drawn nationwide publicity when he was convicted and sentenced to death in 1979 for the grisly murders of two Florida State University sorority sisters. yMP ss4 7m4 fL Tribune Hillsborough County commissioners voted to keep the county's four remaining, but abandoned, motor vehicle inspection stations Wednesday. Although Commissioner Fred Anderson has strongly urged that the stations, worth an estimated $1.3 million, be sold and placed on the tax roll, the commissioners voted to Jiold on to the buildings and land.

According to a report from Don Harwig, director of operations, the stations will be used for road maintenance vehicle centers, park maintenance equipment centers, and portions of the space will be used by the county or leased as office space. Last year the Legislature voted to make motor vehicle inspections an optional program for Florida counties. Hillsborough County, like most others, decided to discontinue the program. In another issue associated with the motor vehicle inspection stations, the commissioners voted not to pay a $1,620 bill received from the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority. The bill followed the sale of the Boy Scout Boulevard motor vehicle inspection station two years ago.

In an effort to obtain a new site for motor vehicle inspections, a county offical had asked the Aviation Authority for property. Although the action was initiated without approval of the county commissioners, the Aviation Authority paid $1,620 to have a potential site surveyed and appraised. The deal fell through when the inspections were terminated last year. Since the commissioners had not approved the original transaction, they voted not to honor the bill from the Aviation Authority. TALLAHASSEE (AP) A New York psychologist who has been I called as an expert in several highly publicized criminal cases is under investigation for possible perjury in Uhe 1980 trial of convicted killer Theodore Bundy, officials said Wednesday.

The investigation of Milton Kline i centers on whether he misrepre-l sented his academic credentials on I two occasions during Bundy's 1980 trial in the death of a 12-year-old I Lake City girl, according to Lake City State Attorney Jerry Blair, who prosecuted the case. i Kline is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 10 in connection with a perjury charge stemming from a 1979 New York trial, said Allen Sullivan, an assistant district attorney in New York County. In addition, Kline had been called in as an expert in the case of Mark Chapman, who pleaded guilty last year to the murder of ex-Beatle John Lennon, Sullivan said. Gov.

Bob Graham issued an executive order Friday transferring the Kline investigation to Orlando State Attorney Robert Eagan after Blair voluntarily disqualified himself. Blair said he requested the move because he was a witness to the alleged perjury and might be called to testify. Kline, who was listed as a psychologist in the state of New York and by the American Psychological Association, testified for the defense 1 in 35-year-old Bundy's trial on charges of kidnapping and killing Kimberly Leach, 1 2, of Lake City. A rescuer uses a machine to pry open the wreckage of a car in which an unidentified man was killed. Tribune Photo by Jim Reed 4 Victor Africano, a Live Oak lawyer who defended Bundy, said Kline is one of the leading experts in the field of forensic hypnosis.

At the trial, Kline testified the hypnotic procedures used on a key prosecution witness were "inappropriate" and rendered the testimony "unreliable," Africano said. Eagan said investigators were studying transcripts from the Orlando trial and a pre-trial hearing in Lake City to determine whether Kline misrepresented his academic credentials. "I can't give you the details," Eagan said. "It has to. do -with whether or not he obtained the degrees he testified hehad." In the New York case, Kline pleaded guilty Dec.

15 to one count of second-degree perjury for saying he had a doctorate degree from Penn State University when he did not, Sullivan said. He said Kline had been charged with five counts of first-degree perjury for allegedly mispresenting his credentials in a 1979 hearing in the trial of Allen Lewis, who was acquitted of charges he pushed a music student in front of a subway train. Car Traveling On Wrong Side Of Road Hits Truck; 1 Killed appeared to be traveling about 55 mph. Russell and June Peterson were returning to Zephyrhills from dinner in Tampa and narrowly missed colliding head-on with the car themselves, before it collided with the truck which had been traveling behind them. Their first indication of danger was a car traveling in the opposite direction blinking its lights on and off.

"We was in the right-hand lane and he was coming down, I swear he was coming right at us," Peterson said. He ordered his wife to pull off on the right-hand shoulder of the highway and said the oncoming vehicle missed them by about .3 feet before striking the truck. "I would say he was going 55 to 60; he was moving right along," Peterson said. and the car received only minor damage. The head-on, fatal crash sent both vehicles careening onto the grass median.

The front wheels and suspension of the truck were torn off by the impact while the car was turned upside down and crushed under the truck's trailer. The driver of the truck, Gregory Ayers, 39, of Redding, escaped with minor injuries and appeared shaken as he watched Pasco County Fire Department rescue workers use hydraulic tools to pry the wrecked car apart. After more than an hour, they were able to free the body of a gray-haired man. Mathis said the man's next of kin would have to be notified before his identity could be released. The driver of the truck who followed the ill-fated car refused to give his name and would only say the car had been on the wrong side of the road for "15 to 20 miles" and By BLAIR S.WALKER Tribune Staff Writer A car traveling on the wrong side of Interstate 75 collided head-on with a tractor-trailer Wednesday night, despite attempts by another truck driver to alert oncoming traffic with his CB radio.

The car's unidentified driver was killed. The CB trucker, driving properly in the southbound lanes, said he followed the car for 15 to 20 miles and tried in vain to warn other, motorists. The accident took place during a drizzly rain at 7:20 p.m. about a mile north of the Hillsborough County line, acording to Florida State Trooper C.W. Mathis.

The driver of the CB-equipped truck jammed on his brakes when he saw the accident, sending his tractor-trailer jackknifing into a car traveling in an adjacent lane, according to Trooper Charles Helm. Neither driver was injured, Helm said. Dump Brings New Complaints FAMU Grads Meet To Discuss Funds The annual Florida University Alumni Membership Chat will be held Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Ragan Community Center, 1200 E. Lake Ave.

A membership drive, local fund raising and student recruitment will be discussed. A group of Picnic residents appeared before the Hillsborough County Commission Wednesday with new protests against a proposed Picnic dump site. Wayne Hendron. of Hal Colding Road, contended land appraisers have exceeded directions of the commission by making appraisals of homestead land in the area in addi tion to old mine land. If the county takes the land that has been appraised, Hendron said, a portion of his property will be landlocked.

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