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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 144

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Atlanta, Georgia
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144
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CdftB EXTRA, May lSt Ml IVU1II r. 1 A 4 Kta Bennett Freed On $100,000 Bond SPECTACLE OF A (( mm a OFF ANY PAIR OF PRESCRIPTION GLASSES s'-ttw' 2nd PAIR The motion to release Mrs. Bennett was made "because of psychological deterioration, because cf being unduly the focus of attention of other prisoners, because of publicity in the case," Powell said. Mrs. Bennett spent one night in so-, litary after she refused to submit to a body search after being stripped in the presence of other prisoners, the attorney said, but there had been no testimony that Mrs.

Bennett suffered physical abuse in jail. The case is scheduled to go to trial on June 23, Powell said. On Friday, he and Barnes, a state senator from Mable-ton, replaced Mrs. Bennett's previous attorney, Frank Shannon of Atlanta. Alcohol and drugs used to treat epilepsy were discovered in the exhumed body of a 22-month-old girl who was found dead after a Smyrna trailer fire.

Phenobarbital, Dylantin and alcohol were found in Tabatha Gober's body through autopsies performed after Continued on Next Page Pnm Stall hwn Kyla Bennett, charged with the murder cf her husband, trucking executive Bob Bennett, was released on (100,000 bond from the Cobb County Jail Friday after a 4Vi-hour hearing before Superior Court Judge Howell 'V- Mrs. Bennett's newly retained attorneys, Roy Barnes and Richard Powell, argued that she had suffered undue psychological and physical stress during a month-long stay in jail. But Ravan overruled a request by defense attorneys that Mrs. Bennett be released into protective custody because of the precedent such a move would set, Powell said. The state has charged that Mrs.

Bennett, 29, conspired to hire another party to kill her husband. Bennett was found shot to. death in their East Cobb home on March 11. The Bennetts had been married to each other for the second time only days before the slaying. The second person charged in the Bennett murder, Clarence Jerome lips, remains in the Cobb County Jail.

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