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CooAnaclCflSIimeo CHANGE COUPJTY Tuesday, IXivmlvr 13, 1988 Part II 5 ICR AFT: Acquittal U-S- JudSe Bars Mention of JDL at Trial in Fatal 1980 Bombing By JOHN SPANO, Times Staff Writer on 14 Counts Asked statement was too inflammatory for a jury to hear. Prosecutor Nancy Stock called it "a critical part of the case." Robert Manning's previous criminal conviction for placing an incendiary device at the home of two Los Angeles Arabs in 1972 also played a role in the pretrial hearing JEAN Monday. "You've almost convicted him just by asking that question 'tell us about your prior bombing activi Tevrizian said in barring any mention of the criminal record at the trial. U.S. authorities are seeking to force Manning's return for trial.

(D ASSALE LOS ANGELES In a decision hailed by defense attorneys, a judge ruled Monday that the Jewish Defense League must not be mentioned at the trial of three JDL associates charged in a fatal 1980 mail bombing in Manhattan Beach. The decision by U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian was made at the request of two of the accused, Rochelle Manning, an Israeli citizen, and millionaire Hawthorne real estate broker William Ross. A third defendant, Robert Manning, a fugitive from the United States, is in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Federal authorities have named both Mannings as prime suspects in the 1985 bombing death in Santa Ana of Alex Odeh, an Arab-rights activist who, the night before his death, called Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat Geneve a "man of peace." Federal prosecutors say Ross enlisted the Mannings, a couple he met in the JDL in Los Angeles in 1971, to send a bomb to Brenda Crouthamel, a Manhattan Beach entrepreneur he was battling in a business dispute.

Crouthamel's secretary, Patricia Wilkerson, 35, died shortly after she opened the package containing the bomb. Tevrizian ruled that any reference to the militant organization would be "highly prejudicial" because prosecutors have not said there is a political motive in the case. The judge also prohibited testimony by a government informant who said Ross described his business rival and alleged target as a "Nazi." Over strong government objections, Tevrizian ruled that the 8INCE 1895 5001 HEATING AIR CONDITIONING LEMJOX WITH LOWEST PRICES OF THE YEAR NOW! 100 FINANCING OAC Cont. Lie. 52 901 CALL THE AIR MAN FOR FREE IN-HOME ESTIMATE because his body was found on the 7th Street on -ramp to the San Diego Freeway in Seal Beach on July 28, 1973.

But the defense argues that the Kraft list is meaningless and that nothing about the other commonalities listed by the prosecution links Wiebe to Kraft. Kopeny asked for acquittal on only 13 of the 16 charges when he filed his motion with McCartin's court Monday morning. But in the afternoon, after conferring with the other two co-counsels, he decided to seek acquittal on a 14th charge, the murder of Keith Daven Crotwell. Crotwell, 19, was last seen alive leaving the parking lot of Belmont Plaza in Long Beach with Kraft on March 30 1975. Six weeks later his skull was found against a rock jetty in Long Beach, and his skeleton was found in Laguna Hills 5 months after that.

Kraft, interviewed by the Long Beach police, admitted being with someone he met at that parking lot that night but denied knowing anything about Crotwell's death. The defense claims that prosecutors have failed to disprove Kraft's statement. Kopeny acknowledges that the defense request for acquittal on these 14 murder counts is important for the appellate record as well as for Judge McCartin's consideration. "I think McCartin is going to take a hard look at this, particularly the group of eight in which the defense claims there are no ties to Kraft," Kopeny said. "But if he doesn't dismiss them now, we believe there is a good chance that an appellate court will do it later." Every judge who has presided over the Kraft case so far has refused to dismiss any of the murder charges.

McCartin has already turned down the defense request for dismissals in three murders in which they could show law enforcement authorities had destroyed some physical evidence. While prosecutor Brown won't comment on Kopeny's motion for 14 acquittals, he did say during a pretrial argument on the issue: "The defense keeps talking about weak murder counts and strong murder counts. We don't see it that way. We think they are all strong counts." (714) 630 TMASSA The very latest from the Jhafosso Coforfoft. In solid 18K gold or a combination of gold ond stointess steel.

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Seberg, DDS 18430 Brookhurst Ste. 104, Fountain Valley, CA 92708 714-963-6702 their Christmas' Continued from Page 3 Deputy Dist. Atty. Bryan F. Brown has a standing policy of not discussing his cases outside the courtroom.

But on Monday, Brown reiterated arguments his office made in response to earlier defense motions that the evidence shows major commonalities among the 16 murders. For example, most of the victims were drugged. Most were killed on weekends. All were white men between 18 and 25 years old. Most were dumped along freeways or nearby roadsides.

Except for the lone unidentified murder victim known as John Doe, whose body was found April 14, 1973, all were known to be without transportation when last seen alive. Prosecutors also claim that all 16 were victims of some kind of "homosexual aberration" involving mutilation or some type of violent sexual assault. But the most important link among the 16, Brown claims, is that all but two of the victims can be found on a "death list" recovered from the trunk of Kraft's car. The list has 61 items containing shorthand such as "EDM," "Airplane Hill," "MCHB Tattoo," and "New Year's Eve." Brown claims that the only two of the 16 murders in trial that are not on that list are Gam-brel and Eric Church, 21, whose body was found on Jan. 27, 1983; both murders occurred shortly before Kraft's arrest.

Wiebe, for example, is linked to Kraft by prosecutors in four ways: His body was dumped along a roadway, the same as most of the others; he died of strangulation with a cord or rope, the same as most of the others; a sock had been forced into a body cavity, the same as two of the others under the prosecution theory. Also, prosecutors claim, Wiebe is represented as "7th Street" on the Kraft list KDOC Continued from Page 3 and its parent firm, Golden Orange Broadcasting headed by Pat Boone. Ford, in charge of commercial sales at the station from 1982 to 1986, claimed that the station castigated her for trying to expose phony ratings that she alleged were designed to boost advertising rates. After pressuring Ford unsuccessfully to perjure herself about the ratings, station officials withheld Ford's sales commissions "for the purpose of punishing her for telling the truth about KDOC," and they eventually forced her out of work altogether, Ford claimed in her suit. Although Ford would not reveal how much the station had agreed to pay her Monday, she said in an interview: "I'm satisfied.

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