European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday. September 29. 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7key tape recording in Noriega Case lost by the Washington Post Miami a a Federal prosecutor said Friday that the government has lost a crucial tape recording of a Telephone Call by Manuel Antonio Noriega s former lawyer to the Vatican embassy in Panama City during the time that Noriega had taken Sanctuary there after the . Invasion of Panama in december 1989. The conversation emerged Friday As a Central Issue in an unusual judicial inquiry into whether Noriega s constitutional rights were violated because Raymond Takiff his chief lawyer at the time of the invasion was secretly working for the Justice department As an undercover informant in an unrelated judicial corruption probe. The hearing is separate from Noriega s drug trafficking and racketeering trial which is to resume monday. But some lawyers said the government s use of Tackitt could form the basis for a motion to dismiss the indict ment or for an Appeal if Noriega is convicted. Quot at a hearing three weeks ago Noriega s current chief lawyer Frank Rubino charged that Takiff had called the Vatican embassy after the invasion and urged Noriega to surrender. Rubino contended that this abridged Noriega a right to Independent Legal advice since the former panamanian Leader had never been told that his lawyer was a . Government informant. At a special hearing called by . District judge William m. Hoeveler. The Noriega trial judge. Takiff acknowledged Friday that lie had never told Noriega or and of his co counsels in the Case that he had been under criminal investigation by the internal Revenue service since 1985 and began cooperating secretly with the . Attorney s office to resolve the matter in August 1989, about 18 months after Noriega retained him. But Takiff disputed Rubinos account of the Tele phone Call to the embassy testifying that he never reached Noriega and instead spoke Only to the papal Nuncio. I Lope of resolving the conflict however quickly disappeared when assistant . Attorney Norman mos Rowit acknowledged that prosecutors could not produce an exact transcript of Lukin s conversation because it had disappeared. Moscow it said the government had been recording All Calls into the embassy at the Lime and had a Quot summary a a of 1 Akita s Call. When Noriega Lav Vevi Jon a demanded that prosecutors produce the actual tape. Moscow it replied Quot this summary. Your Honor is All we can the lost tape was the latest in a series of unusual twists to the Noriega ease but it was unclear whether it will have any bearing on the outcome of Noriega s trial. Hoeveler did not Rule on the Issue 1 ndav.2 plead not guilty in murder that rocked Boston Matthew Stuart is accompanied by his sister Shelley Yandoli As he enters a Boston court. By the Washington Post Boston a almost two years after the murder of Carol Stuart her brother in Law and a Friend pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that they played a role on the fringe of the staged robbery and double murder that rocked this City and still produces aftershocks. Matthew Stuart and John a Jack Quot Mcmahon both 25 and residents of suburban Revere were released after pleading to the first and Likely Only criminal charges to Stem from the sensational crime. The Central figure in the Case. Matthews brother c Harles was found floating in Boston Harbor an apparent suicide. That happened hours after authorities tipped by Matthew began to suspect that Charles had fatally shot his pregnant wife at Point Blank Range. On thursday after 22 months of testimony a grand jury issued indictments charging Matthew Stuart and Mcmahon with conspiring to obstruct Justice concealing stolen property and illegally carrying a firearm. In addition Stuart was charged with conspiring to commit insurance fraud and a rarely used count of Quot compounding a Mcmahon also was charged with being an accessory after the fact of murder. Under a 19th-Century Massachusetts Law family members Are exempt from being charged As accessories alter the fact of a crime. Implicit in the charges prosecutors said was the grand jury a belief that c Harles Stuart shot and killed his wife in their car then wounded himself. Their St. Christopher was born prematurely and died 17 Days later. Originally police believed Charles Stuart s Story that the couple was mugged by a Black assailant and officers descended on Boston s Mission Hill neighbourhood. Stopping and frisking Young Black men. The heavy handed tactics stirred resentment against the police and mayor Raymond Flynn. Matthew stuarts attorney. Nancy Gertner depicted her client Friday As a Scapegoat being tossed to the Public and the Media by Law enl Oice ment officials stymied Anil frequently embarrassed by the Case. A the prosecutor is Irving the Carol Stuart murder Case in an insurance fraud setting Quot ice Toner said after arraignment Quot lie s doing this for you. The Media and to save his political to play hockey on All girls team South Kingstown . A Brian Kleczek has been carrying equipment and keeping score for his High school s All girl Field hockey team All season. This week he w ill Don the Standard uniform a a Kilt Jersey and Shin pads a and move from the sidelines to the Field. Superior court judge Mark a. Pfeiffer ruled Friday that a league regulation barring boys from playing on All girls teams was unconstitutional. A a in a psyched a said Kleczek. The american civil liberties Union sued on behalf of Kleczek and his parents when the Rhode Island interscholastic league said the South Kingstown Field hockey squad could not participate with Kleczek on the team. The league said allowing Kleczek to play would set a precedent and could endanger female players. The 5-foot 4 Inch 130-Pound Sophomore said he knew of no other boys w to wanted to play. Schools superintendent Arthur b. Campbell also named As a defendant declined to comment Friday on the decision. There was no answer Friday evening at league offices in Warwick. Kleczek the team s manager was on the sidelines awaiting for an afternoon game to begin when the judge issued his decision. Quot my mom came shouting onto the Field Quot he said. Quot at first i thought it was just someone shouting my name. Then my coach. Vicki Tefft turned me around and she was shouting a you won you lawyer s insanity temporary by the los Angeles times Ventura Calif. A Ventura lawyer Douglas Palaschak who has asked female Job candidates to sign a contract allowing him to engage in a sexual acts Quot and who has freely admitted using Ltd pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Friday to charges of possessing the drug and furnishing it to a minor. A it was temporary insanity of course a Palaschak said after entering the pleas in Ventura county Superior court. A we re not saying in a crazy As for How the insanity plea might affect his right to practice Law Palaschak said he was not worried. A a you re allowed to practice Law if you re insane a he said. A if they made All the insane lawyers quit practice. Ing who a be left a Palaschak 42, has acknowledged that state bar investigators contacted him after his arrest May 9 on the Ltd charges. In August Ventura county District attorney Michael d. Bradbury asked the bar to expand its investigation to include the contract that Palaschak asked some prospective female employees to sign. The contract stated that the applicant had been chosen Quot primarily on the basis of sexual Appeal Quot and that Palaschak was considering the applicant As a potential Girlfriend. By signing the contract the applicant consented Quot to All words acts sexual innuendo sexual acts touching lewd behaviour etc.,&Quot according to a copy of the document released by Bradbury. Palaschak defended the contract As necessary for his own Protection against Quot sexual he said the contract was signed by Only one of the More than 50 secretaries who have passed through his one lawyer office so far this year. Bar spokeswoman Susan Stone said she could not comment on a Case while it was under investigation. When an attorney is arrested on any charge she said a we re going to look at it no matter what the plea grizzly Bear Hunting season called off won his new teammates Quot were screaming Quot he said. Washington apr a Federal judge has called off the fall Hunting season for grizzly bears in Northwestern Montana. . District judge Michael Boudin granted a temporary order Friday in a Case brought by the fund Tor animals which contends that grizzly Hunting is barred by the endangered species act. The ruling came Days before tuesday s scheduled Start of the fall Hunting season for the bears which Are designated a threatened species. Boudin said the fish and Willile service had not shown that there is a surplus number it it a in lies in the area to justify Hunting the animals. Quot Congress has specifically limited the Hun log of a threatened or endangered species to extraordinary cases of population pressures Boudin said adding that he was required to enforce restriction. Tile ruling was a preliminary one that Boudin said will remain in effect until he issues a final division m
