News Scrapbook 1986

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

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Clairmont-Linda Vista

Star News (Cir. 2xW.)

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Dally Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

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Jcll,,n's / ,r. t8U ..,so _prepares for ~lzheimer's program Volunteers ~ ntly needed to take part itfT'JPo'gr~ designed to aid those who provide care for victims of Alzhe1mer's Disease. Individuals participating in the project will learn strategies and techniques for stimulating memory and problem-solving skills in patients. 1 The program, which will be con- ducted at the volunteer's home, is sponsored by the University of San Diego School of Nursing. For additional information regarding eligibility requirements, call Dr. Mary P. Quayhagen at 260-4578 P C B

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a tour led by ranger Joanne Nash, according to Bill Aste, president of the San Pasqual Battlefield Museum Volunteer Association. However. the $1.5 million museum isn't scheduled to formally open until April 1, Aste said. The 2,700..square-foot building is finished, but the museum's interpre- tive displays are still being built in Sacramento. The museum, located just cast of the San Diego Wild Ani mal Park on Highway 78, also n lands<:aping and a parking lot.

il master's degree the is on the Bat- tle of San Pa qua! will be the fea- tur d pcakcr when the battlefield mus um is unveiled Saturday During an open house cheduled for 10 a.m , Point Loma res dent ally Johns will discuss the events leading up to th December 1846 bat- ti between U.S. and Mexican troops. Johns received a master's degree in history from the University of San 1ego in 1973 - Saturday's festivities will include

Brooke Mayfield wouldn't want to be an attorney; she enjoys her job as a paralegal for Saxon, Alt, Brewer & Kincannon. Yet there are some in the San Diego Association of Legal Assis- tants who plan to move on. "It's on your mind a lot," says Mayfield. "You're doing a lot of the stuff that an attorney does." LawBriefs But Mayfield, who is president of the association, knows that paralegals aren't attorneys. "We're not qualified to give a legal opinion," she says. "Everything we do is reviewed by an attorney." Much of that work involves legal research, interview- ing and keeping clients informed of the status of cases. "There's generally no typing or word processing," adds Mayfield, who went through the Lawyer's Assista~t Progr~~ graduatmg from UCSD. The association was formed in 1977 and today has some 200 members. They're involved in all aspects of the law: probate, civil litigation, criminal, real estate, corporate, immigration and family. Most are with private firms although there are paralegals with the district at• torney, legal aid and the state at- torney general's office. There's even one memLer, Toni Lorentz, with Associated California Photocopy Service, who's not a paralegal. Paralegal use is growing. At Saxon, Alt, Brewer & Kincannon there are 10 attorneys and two paralegals. Mayfield traces the history of paralegals to the early 1970s when "legal expenses were getting so high." It appeared to grow out of clerical positions. "Now I've seen reports that it's one of the 10 fastest growing pro- fessions in the country," she says. The local association has a gen- eral membership meeting the third Tuesday of every month on topics ranging from licensing of paralegals to processing insurance claims and stress management. Speakers have also included judges and attorneys. SDALA is conducting its 1986 survey on the status of legal assis- tants in the county. All presently employed paralegals may obtain a copy of the survey questionnaire by calling Martha Nielsen at Wiles, Circuit & Tremblay. The eight- page survey touches on several areas, including working hours, pay, size of the law firms and types of responsibilities. Results should be out by March. * * * Noteworthy: Pat Reilly of Kidder Peabody will discuss in- vestments and tax planning at a noon meeting Jan. 14 of the East County Lawyers Club. The lun- cheon will be in the East County Regional Courthouse cafeteria. How is the role of women in law changing? Are there too many lawyers? What effect will tax law revisions have on the family and business? To help answer these and other questions Western State University College of Law has es-

tablished a speakers bureau of faculty members. A seminar on the preliminary examination in criminal cases will be held at USD Law School on feh. 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Speakers include Judges Dick Huffman and Fred Link, and attorneys Alex • Landon, Don MacNeil, Nelson . Brav and Chuck Sevilla. Cost is

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$20. Cal Western will host a free sem- inar on business law basics Jan. 21 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. for new ad- mittees and business lawyers with less than three years experience. Attorneys who will be speaking m-. elude Miles Harvey, Charles 1 Rowe, Paul Freeman and William Bunker. High school enior who plan to pursue a legal career have until March 1 to apply for eight $500 scholarships offered by the firm of Kaufman, Lorber, Grady & Farley. For more information write the firm's Legal Scholarship Founda- : tion, P.O. Box 27594, San Diego 92128. Attorneys may audit classes and two special seminars on tax law • through USD law school's Gradu- '. ate Program on Taxation. Class starts Monday, as does a six-ses- sion lecture by Gerald Portney, former assistant IRS commis- sioner, on "Problems in Tax En- , forcement." Senior U.S. Tax Court trial Judge Theodore Tannen- wald Jr. will present eight ses- sions on "The Tax Litigation Pro- cess," starting Feb. 3. TV Watch: Gerald McMahon and Bonnie Nelson-Reading will talk about wrongful termination this Sunday at 8:30 a.m. on Chan- nel 5l's At the Bar program. * * * San Diego County Bar Association Meetings,Jan. 9-15 Thursday, Jan. 9 Environmental Law/Land Use - noon, Varsity West Room, Um- versity Club. Speakers. Jerry Kuhn of Scripps Institute of ri Oceanography and Bob Rice or~ Garfield, Schwartz, and Rice. Sub- ' ject: Coastal Erosion: Technical and Legal Implications. Family Law Section - noon, Wine Connection Restaurant. Speaker: Greg Alford. Subject: Worker Compensation/Law Section Meeting, 11:30 a.m. Ab- bey Restaurant. High Tech Computor Commit- tee - noon, U.S. Dept. of Com- merce, Dedication ceremony & luncheon. Bridging the Gap Series/ Criminal Law - 5:30-8:30 p.m., Auditorium, Cal Western Umver- sity. Wednesday, Jan. 15 Real Property Law Section noon Varsity Room, University Club. Speaker: Michael T. Gibbs of Miller & Gibbs. Subject: Recent Development in Construction: defect litigation. --~~ L New Legislation. Friday,Jan 10 Attorney/Realtor Committee, noon, Board of Realtors office, 2231 Camino del Rio So. Tuesday, Jan.14

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Luca ,r informant says she was paid $10,000 A San &"eJ :Oman te tifi d yes- ger who worked for her in December hearing for Lucas that he recognized refused. terday that sh received $10,000 in an 1984 and that she pa· ed it on to San a dog chain found wrapped around Other motions are expected to be out-of-court sett! ment with the San Diego Police Capt. James Malloy, Swanke's neck as one he ,ad seen on heard over the next few weeks. Diego County Crime Commis ion for who in turn passed it on to the sher- a dog once owned bv Luca.. Roger Young, executive director supplymg mformatton that she said iff's homicide detail. In addition to the Swanke slaying, of the San Diego Crime Commission, led to the arrest of uspccted killer O'Grady insisted that she passed Lucas also faces trial Feb. 11 for the said O'Grady was offered a substan- D v1d Allen Lucas. on the mformation to Malloy on Dec. Oct. 23, 1984, slayings of Rhonda tial reward for the information she Diana Q'Grady testified before Su- 14, 1984, and that Lucas was arrested Strang, 24, and Amber Fisher, a 3- supplied Malloy but not nearly the perior Court Judge Frankhn B. Or• two days later as a suspect in the year-old girl she was baby-sitting in amount she settled for. field that the sett! ment was the re- Swanke ca ·e. her Lakeside home; and the attempt- "She simply felt she was deserving ult of a law u1t she filed agamst the At the time, $25,000 had been ed murder of Jodie Santiago, 34, of of more money," Young said. "She comm1s ·100 for fail ng to give her raised in reward money from contri- Seattle on June 9, 1984. did furnish some information, but I reward money that had been offered butions to the uruversity and $20,000 Lucas also faces trial June 4 for think there was some serious ques- for information leading to the arrest from an anonymous donor. the May 4, 1979, slayings of Suzanne lion as to whether or not her infor- of a suspect m the Nov 20, 1984. slay- Q'Grady said she sued the commis- Camille Jacobs, 31, and her 3-year- mation led directly to the apprehen- ing of U 'D tudcnt Anne Catherine s1on for failing to give her the old son, Michael Colin Jacobs; and sion of Lucas. There was no question Swanke~ reward, and that she subsequently the Dec. 8, 1981, slaying of real estate it did help." O'Grady's testimony is part of a reached an out-of-court settlement saleswoman Gayle Roberta Garcia, Young noted that O'Grady, as part defense motion to suppress evidence for $10,000. 29. of the settlement, had promised not in Lucas murder trials that are ten• Questioned by defense attorney Lucas' defense team yesterday to reveal the amount of the reward tatlvely scheduled to begm Feb. 11 Alex Landon, O'Grady said she sup- also asked Orfield to dismiss the but apparently had no option when and June 4. plied Malloy the name of "Limback." charges against Lucas in the Swanke, questioned under oath. He said the O'Grady testified that she received Matthew L1mback, a friend of Strang, Fisher and Santiago cases on lawsuit had been settled within the information from a property mana- Lucas, testified during a preliminary technical grounds, but Orf1eld past week.

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O'Grady's name surfaced in the Lucas investigation in August 1985, when she filed suit against the San Diego Crime Commi•sion, its adm1~- istrator, Roger Young, and Um- versity of San Diego, cla1mmg a $25,000 reward. . She said yesterday that he~ s_mt was settled when the commission paid $10,000. "Part of that was mine," O'Grady said. ''That was the total amount my attorney settled for." O'Grady said she passed on to Mal- loy information given her by one _of her on-site property managers, m- volving the name Limback. Limback was a key witness in a preliminary hearing, identifying a chain found around Swanke's throat as one he had seen on a dog owned by Lucas and describing scratches he saw on Lucas' face shortly after Swanke, 22, disappeared on Nov. 20, 1984. . Landon argued yesterda,y that. m- vestigators violated ~u~as ~onstltu- tional rights in questlonmg him after his arrest. Sheriffs detective Craig Hender- son testified that Lucas refused. to talk y, ith detectives without havmg his attorney present. . Lucas is scheduled for trial F~b. 11. He is charged with murder~ng Swanke who was last seen alive walking toward her disabled car _on Parkway Drive in La Mesa; with murdering Amber Fisher, 3, and her baby sitter, Rhonda Strang, 24, _on Oct. 23, 1984, in Strang's Lakeside home· and with kidnapping and trying to murder Jody Santiago, 34, of Seattle who survived a June 9, 1984, thro~t slashing, stabbing and skull fracture. Lucas faces another trial June 4 on three other murder charges.

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• Lucas tip -~7-.- descr1bed by witness Woman testifies at murder hearing A property manager has testified that information she gave le~ to the arrest two days later of David Alie~ Lucas on a charge of mur•enog llni- versity -9.l San Di~ student Anne Catherine Swanke. Diana O'Grady testifie~ yesterday in a uperior Court hearmg on mo- tions preceding trial of Lucas.. The relevance of her testimony was not yet clear yesterday. She was allowed to testify early because she is abOut to leave the country on bus1- n O'Grady said she called San Diego Police CapL James Malloy on Dec. 14, 1984. and gave him the name of Matthew Limback, a fnend of Lucas. Under questioning by defense ~t- torney A ex Landon and Deput~ Dis- trict Attorney Dame! W1lhams, O'Grady insisted that her call was placed that day two days before Lucas was arrested. In a hearing last year, Malloy tes- tified that he got the call Dec. 7• "I h ve known Malloy for 1_4 ears," O'Grady said. "~! he sa~s it ~as Dec. 7, then in his mmd h~ thmks that's the date, and he tellmg the truth." By Mike Konon Tribune Staff Writer

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