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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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Hearing on murder charges against Lucas open to press

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barring the press would only hamper accuracy m re- porting. Said Saunders, "You can't control the use of file film; that's true. You can't prevent them from using pictures. If they want to defy the spirit of the court order, you can't stop that. You can only appeal to their sense of ethics and responsibility." Said Exarhos, "I am not about to make orders I can- not enforce." Oscar J. Kaplan, a San Diego State University profes- sor and research director of Economic Behavior Ana- lysts Inc., reported that the survey, commissioned by Saunders, included 500 people eligible to be jurors. Kaplan said pollsters found that 87 percent had heard of the Swanke case and that of those 52 percent believed Lucas was guilty of murdering her. The survey found that 50 percent believed Lucas guilty of the Santiago kidnapping and assault, 31 percent considered him guilty of the Jacobs killings and 19 per- cent held him guilty of the Garcia killing. Deputy District Attorney George W. Clarke said sur- vey takers had urged people who initially expressed no opinion to "take a stand" on Lucas' guilt. "We do that in political polls, also," Kaplan said. nder questioning by Allcock, Kaplan said he had been paid $2,250 for the survey, "including my testimo- ny." Allcock suggested that a control question, regarding a fictitious case, might have been used to lend validity to the poll. "If we put in a fake case into the questionnaire and 20 percent of the people bite," Kaplan said, "it in no way affects the survey result. It is stupid to use that type of question." Said Allcock, "You found the strongest opinions in the Swanke case, but isn't it true that 48 percent of the people had no op1mons or felt he was innocent? There are two million potential jurors in this county. That means 750,000 would be potential fair and impartial jurors?" "Yes, based on the poll,'' Kaplan replied.

Apreliminary hearing for David Allen Lucas on three of the six murder charges he faces will be open to the public and press, a judge has ruled. Municipal Judge Herbert Exarhos ruled yesterday that Lucas' attorney had failed to establish that addi- tional press coverage would prejudice his client's right to a fair trial. The attorney, William Saunders, had presented re- sults of a survey purporting to show that many people in the county were aware of the charges against Lucas and had opinions about his guilt or innocence. Exarhos said that the survey also showed that many other county residents were unaware of the charges or had no opinions. The judge postponed a hearing on Lucas' request to disqualify District Attorney Ed Miller's omce from the prosecution until June 11. The defense says the office has a conflict of interest because of the previous status of another man, Johnny Massingale, as a suspect in two of the killings. At the June 17 preliminary hearing, Lucas will face charges of mu er· g za 1 b&, 31, and her son, Colin, 3, in their Normal Heights home on May 4, 1979, and real estate saleswoman Gayle Roberta Gar- cia, 29, in a home for sale in Spring Valley on Dec. 8, 1981. Lucas, 29, also faces an Oct. 1 trial on charges of murdering University of San Diego student Anne Cathe- rine Swanke;22, who d!Sappeared Nov. 20 in La Mesa; and Amber Fisher, 3, and her baby sitter, Rhonda Strang, 24, who were slain Oct. 23 in Strang's Lakeside home. He also will be tried June 9 on a charge of at- tempting to murder Jody Santiago, 29, a Seattle woman. In arguing against closing the preliminary hearing on the other murder charges, John Allcock, an attorney representing The Tribune and the San Diego Union, ar- gued that publicity does not necessarily create preju- dice. Allcock said that the court has "no ability to stop the media from using what they already have" and that

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DAVID ALLEN LUCAS LISTENS TO TESTIMONY Judge ruled preliminary hearing on murder charges will be open

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La Mesa, CA (San Diego Co.) La Mesa Courier (Cir. W. 5,500)

Son Diego, C>.-~---- (Son Diego Co.) Son Diego Union (Cir. D 217,324) (Cir. S. 339,788) AY 25 1985 ~(k,i't P. C. B l ,r ,au r,.,\;...I By Michael Scott-Blair Slaff Writer Thousands of San Diego area col- lege tudents ill don caps and gown in the coming weeks for the annual ceremony of graduation. The University of San Diego be- comes the city s llrSt maJor four- year campus to parade the po~p of commencement with ceremomes to- morrow at the campus. A total of 1,283 men and women will be graduated, including a record 712 undergraduates receJV1ng bac- calaureate degrees. The undergraduate and gradua~e commencement will be at 3 p.m. JD the campus stadium and will be pre- ceded at 10:30 a.m. by ceremonies for 376 law .chool graduates. Today at 10 a m., the first ~l~ss of seven students will be comm1ss1oned as officers from the campus' new USD Naval Reserve Officers' Train- ing Corps, including . three women and lour men. Four will become sec- ond lieutenants JD the U.S. Marine Corps and three will be commis- sioned as ensigns in the U.S. Navy.

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/The poetry of Nobel Laureate Jar""os- lav Seifert will be read and discussed by translator Ewald Osers on Friday at theUn~nDiego's Man- chester Executive Conference Center. Osers will read Seifert's poetry in Eng- lisn and Czech. The reading will begin at 7·30 p.m. and will be followed by a r ~eption. Contact USD's Office of Public Relations for additional il)!orma- lion ~~./

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Robert E. Chapman Wafter A. Turner Jr. La Mesan~ tapped as SDSU's '85 Distinguished Alumn Three La . ifesans and one resident of g ram manager , man ager and t hen &. Company. J. Clifford Wallace John T. Warburton

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Business Journal (Cir. M. 7,500)

2nd president of the largest educational con- sulting firm in Califor- nia, Institutional Management Consultants. As a consultant, he has worked with more than 50 school districts the state helping their financial needs affected by . increasing or decreasing enrollments. Warburton is also direc- tor of the La Mesa Chamber of Commerce. Turner is executive vice president of finance of Sunroad · Enterprises, and recent- ly retired as a senior partne~ ofT~ in them_ to meet

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He is a nationally recognized expert in the field of real estate taxa- t10n, has published ·ex- tensively and speaks at

di rector of advanced sys tems during his t enure with the company. Wallace is judge of the U S. Court of Ap- peals, Ninth Circuit. He t aught law at the Un iv...r.sitv of San Diego Law~hoo_l,, and at Cal ifornia-western. He was s'Worn mas a U.S. District Judge in 1970, and elevated to the ap- peals bench in 1972. Warburton is former superintendent of the Grossmont Union High School District, fo under and director bf the Grossmont Bank,

Mount Helix are among the eight ~es of S a n D i ego St a t e University selected as t.he 1985 Distinguished Alumni. Robert E. Chap- man, J. Clifford Wallace, and John T. Warburton are La Mesa residents; Walter A. Turner, Jr., lives on Mount Helix. Chapman is vice president of advanced 1 programs a~ T~ledyne Ryan Electronics. rte Joined the company in 1967, after graduating at SDSU, and has been a project engineer, pro- ,,.

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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Business Journal (Cir. M. 7,500) 2 7 1985

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