European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Don t blame me six year old Bobby White Bouse of Ham Ilton out., has no intention of taking the name for a fire which damaged the living room of his parents borne. Bobby said that the fire which burned the drapes and ceiling started when there was a match on the Rug and my Friend Andy slipped on a after 3rd . Protest Toth and family Fly from Russia Moscow a los Angeles time correspondent Robert c. Toth and his family left the soviet Union Friday after the american embassy lodged the third . Protest Over his detention and interrogation. Toth ending a three year tour Here flew to London and will go to los Angeles on sunday. He originally planned to leave Friday but it had appeared earlier in the week that the police interrogation would delay was accused in a soviet note tues Day o being involved in the collection of secret information of a political and Mili tary he was interrogate repeatedly at Moscow s i of Ortolo prison he was told by Telephone thursday morning that he was no longer needed by soviet authorities and was free to s embassy note repeated a pro test tuesday which said. We consider this to be part of a persistent Effort by the soviet authorities to harass and intimidate american correspondents in the exercise of their further protested the fact that soviet actions against Toth had continued eve after the delivery of to tuesday protest and of an earlier me handed to the soviet sin Washington the embassy spokesman embassy also protested the fact that a . Consular official was prevented from accompanying the correspondent during the note referred to the 35-Nalion Helsinki accords signed in 1975, which contain provisions regarding working conditions for journalists and said soviet action against Toth do not help strengthen conditions in soviet accusations against Toth were also made in the form of a protest when a . Representative was called in tuesday to the soviet foreign ministry at that time the soviets protested Toth s having been engaged in activities incompatible with the status of a foreign correspondent accredited to the 1. S s k the Noie specifically mentioned a soviet scientist who had Given the correspondent paper on the study of mental telepathy and extrasensory perception authorized unofficial publication for the us. Armed forces in daily and sunday vol. 36, no. 62 saturday june 18, 1977 if 21855 a top court oks death penalty for Fla. Slayer Washington a the supreme court Friday upheld the death sentence of Florida death Row inmate Ernest Joh Dobbert convicted in the torture slaying of his 9-year-old 6-3, the justices rejected Dob Bert s arguments that he could not be sentenced to die in the electric chair because Florida did not have a constitutionally valid death penalty Law at the time of his , a Jacksonville Man was convicted of committing the murder sometime in Early 1972. At the time Florida had a death penalty Law but it was struck Downs unconstitutional along with the death penalty Laws of All other states by the supreme court later that year. Florida passed a new capital punish ment Law in 1973, and that one last year was ruled constitutional by the nation highest court. Sex Post Facto Clai Dobbert said that his sentencing under the new Law represented an sex pos Facto application of the Law. The court s majority opinion written by Justice William h. Rennquist said the changes in the two death penalty taws Are procedural and on the whole ameliorative and that there is no sex Post Facto Dobbert s trial was held in 1974, after authorities tracked him Down in another state. The trial jury that convicted him recommended life imprisonment but the trial judge who under Florida s 1973 la does not have to follow the jury s recommendation imposed he death argued that under the old death penalty Law a trial judge could not have changed the jury s recommendation. Justices John Paul Stevens Thurgood Marshall and William j. Brennanjr. Voted to overturn Dobbert s death atrocious character of this individual s crimes. Is of course no More Rele vant to the Legal Issue than the fact that 10 of the 12 jurors who heard All of the Evi Dence voted to spare his life Stevens said in an opinion for the three said the court s treatment of sex past Facto application of the Law represented a demeaning construction of a Majestic bulwark in the framework of the court also rejected Dobbert claims that his trial was prejudiced by massive who is reasonably suspected of murdering his children cannot expect to remain Anonymous Rehnquist said. Dobbert was sentenced to die for the continued on Page 28. Col. I wether von Braun rocket expert von Braun Dies at 65 Washington up wether Vonbraun. The German bom scientist whose rockets rained terror on London and sen americans to the Moon died of cancer of the Colon Early thursday Hospital official said Friday. He was 65. He died in nearby Alexandria va., hos Pital at 3 . Not after a Long illness. The continued on Page 2s. Col. 41 smoking out Smokey ruled Legal . Api a citizens ban radio operator who Wurns another about a radar Speed trap is not committing crime. New York s highest court ruled say that there is a Smokey Takin pictures up the Road Dies not subject the speaker to a year s imprisonment said the court of appeals in a unanimous Deci in so ruling the court overturned the disorderly conduct conviction of William Norwood Case who had used his cd radio to Alert two other cobers to the presence of a radar checkpoint in St. Lawrence county. Case was accused of obstructing govern mental administration for his cd warning on dec. 19, 1975. He later pleaded guilty Toa reduced Clarge of disorderly conduct. But the court of appeals said nothing incas s actions regardless of his guilty plea to the charge constituted a of governmental administration can be accomplished by Means of intimidation physical Force or in Erfer continued on Page 28, col. 4
