European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 a the stars and stripes . A Friday january 22,1993 sex officers attorneys say King was crazed by pc los Angeles apr attorneys for three defendants in the Rodney King Case described King As a Quot pc crazed giant who invited his beating. Previewing a strategy that could inflame racial tensions in the City the attorneys asked a Federal judge to require prosecutors to prove that the officers beat King because he is Black. Lawyer Harland Braun who helped write the request denied he was trying to incite further violence. He said the attorneys were trying to show the officers state of mind the night of the beating. A it May appear that we re trying to crucify Rodney King. But that would not be useful said Braun who represents former officer Theodore Briseno. Quot its How Rodney King appeared to the officers that a important. He added that King s criminal record would be at Issue and Quot i guess in a sense we Are putting Rodney King on  in the motion filed tuesday before . District judge John g. Davies the attorneys for Briseno Timothy wind and Stacey Koon said the Force used against King on March 3, 1991, was reasonable and should t be second guessed. Briseno wind Koon and Laurence Powell Are accused of civil rights charges in the King beating which was videotaped by a nearby resident and broadcast Ria Tio wide. Kings attorney Milton Grimes denounced the defense statements As an attempt to taint the jury Pool. He said the lawyers made statements they knew were false including the Contention that King was on pc. Drug tests following Kings 1991 beating indicated he did not have the Hallucinogen pc in his system. The former officers acquittal of most charges in their state trial sparked three Days of rioting in los Angeles last Spring causing nearly $1 billion in damage and killing 53 people. Riverhead . A life once chaotic and cruel has taken a better turn for Katie Beers. Katie 10, has been tucked into the folds of a six member Foster family after spending More than two weeks held in an underground Bunker. A Katie did no to realize simple things like brushing your Teeth and washing your face is something that you do every Day a said Suffolk county sheriff Patrick Mahoney. A she did no to even realize that you have dinner at a certain  the sheriff would not say where Katie a Foster family lives in Suffolk county. Katie s Foster father a decorated Vietnam Veteran is a longtime member of Mahoneyq a staff. Her Foster Mother a full time homemaker was herself adopted As a  Foster parents have four children of their own two girls Ages 14 and 17 and two boys Ages 10 and 2. A a they re trying to Welcome Katie As if she is one of their own a Mahoney said. A a they re trying to give her a stabilized family environment trying to give her love and show her a routine that every 10-Ycar-old girl needs especially in this Day and age especially with what she s been  attorney James Catterson or. Said Katie s Foster parents reported that she a sleeping through the night cutting pictures of herself out of newspapers and eating everything in  Katie even brought a playmate Home after her first Day of school Catterson said. A a she a Quick she has a sly sense of humor and she was remarkable in recounting her experience a he said. A a lot of pos Haven to come out of Captivity with that kind of  Katie smother Marilyn Beers is battling Suffolk county officials to regain custody Beers and a county attorney reached a temporary agreement wednesday allowing the Mother to visit Katie Over a three week period. During the three weeks All court activity Over Katie a custody will cease and the child will remain in Foster care officials said. The county will hire a psychologist to interview and observe Katie and her Mother prior to the next court Date. Despite everything Mahoney said a the family tells me that Katie is very  they took her shopping for clothes and enrolled her in school tuesday. Her classmates have been very understanding and helpful he said. A Katie moves school a Mahoney said for her part the Little girl has been a a very open and Loving to the family Quot he added. To new John Esposito left indicted on it charges sits with his attorney Sidney Siben at wednesday s arraignment in Riverhead . $1.1 million bail ordered for girl s alleged Abductor by new Day Riverhead . A John Esposito closed his eyes and Hung his head As a Suffolk county court judge wednesday increased his bail to $1.1 million after a grand july indicted him in the kidnapping of 10-Ycar-old Katie Beers standing silently before judge Joel Lefkowitz the 43-year-old contractor from Bay Shore ., appeared unshaven Pale and gaunt As he was told that he faced 11 counts in the abduction and 16-Day Captivity of the fourth grader. Those counts include sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. As the upbeat youngster resumed schooling and strove for normalcy in a Foster Home wednesday the Man who allegedly kept her chained in a Dungeon was told that he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Lefkowitz raised Esposito a bail from $500,000 to $1.1 million a setting bail at $100,000 on each of the counts against Esposito. Defense attorney Sidney Siben said it would be virtually impossible for Esposito a family to raise the bail Money. After hearing testimony from Katie on Friday a Suffolk county grand jury voted to indict Esposito but the indictment was not announced until wednesday. Esposito has been held since Jan. 13 in the county jail on a charge of second degree kidnapping. But the grand jury indicted him on three counts of the More serious first degree kidnapping six counts of first degree sexual abuse and one count each of endangering the welfare of a child and second degree making an apparently sworn false statement. Man captured on bus in Texas from wire reports Miami a Federal agents acting on a tip intercepted a bus in Texas in what they pretended was a search for illegal aliens and arrested a Man accused of shooting to death his sex wife in front of a to camera. A a a Emilio Nunez 34, reached for a gun wednesday after being ordered off the los Angeles bound bus with the other passengers but was overpowered authorities said. He was jailed for eventual return to Florida where he faces murder charges. Nunez is accused of shooting his wife in the head 12 times at close Range monday when she showed up at a North Lauderdale cemetery while he was being interviewed for a to program Nunez was there to visit the grave of his teen age daughter whose suicide he blamed on his former wife. He fled after the slaying which was captured on videotape and shown on network television. Jean Harris to be freed Valhalla . A Jean Harris will be a free woman within a week after spendingl2 years behind bars for killing or. Herman Tarnower the author of the Scarsdale diet. The parole Board on wednesday granted the 69-year-old Harris parole and said she would be released next wednesday or earlier if her health allows it. She is recuperating from quadruple bypass surgery. The action came three weeks after gov. Mario m. Cuomo granted her clemency or the right to seek Early parole. She had been serving a sentence of 15 years to life for killing her longtime Lover. Radar gun firm cleared san Francisco a . District court jury wednesday cleared a radar gun manufacturer of responsibility for a police officers terminal cancer. The $12.5 million damage claim was bled by Eric Bendure 34, who said he got non Hodgkins Lymphoma from the radar gun while working on the police forces in san Anselmo and Petaluma North of san Francisco. He is expected to die within six months from the disease which was diagnosed in 1989. Bendure a attorneys said the gun which the officer used for More than three years emitted microwaves even when it Wasny to being used to track cars exposing Bendure to radiation when he rested it in his  Mark of  an attorney for custom signals inc., maker of the hr-8 radar gun said studies had failed to link microwaves and non Hodgkins Lymphoma. He also said the radar gun exceeded Industry standards when it was introduced about 12 years ago. Club new York a a to network broadcast footage wednesday that it said showed the president of. Guatemala a born again Christian leaving a Manhattan topless club. The film was shown by the Spanish language network uni vision. It was shot of a free Lance cameraman who said he got a tip from the owner of Stan Fellows that Jorge Serrano was inside late tuesday. The club has topless waitresses and a Small bottle of Champagne can Cost up to $75. Serrano 47, blamed the report on leftist guerrilla  his press Secretary said Serrano had been in a restaurant near the club. Serrano was in new York to present a plan to . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali for renewing peace talks in Guatemala. 3 guilty in deaths of 4 Houston a three members of a polygamist group were convicted wednesday of Federal civil rights violations in the 1988 deaths of three former members and a girl. The three Are William Heber Lebaron 28, Patricia Lebaron 27, and Douglas Lee Barlow 31, prosecutors said the july 27,1988, killings were earned out because the adult victims had left the a Church. Tom Berg William Lebaron a attorney argued that the slayings were revenge for years of abuse the defendants suffered while their father Ervil Lebaron was in prison for killing a rival polygamist Leader. Berg said the defendants had to work Long hours and were threatened with death if they disobeyed. A Erbil Lebaron who had 54 children by 13 wives died m 1981 m prison