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Weinglass and the Harrises had no complaints about Prosecutor Samuel Mayerson, who laid out his case with cool, professional thoroughness. But emotional clashes almost immediately erupted between the defense and Judge Mark Brandler, 66. On occasion Harris lost his temper and once cursed Brandler. A bitter defense disappointment came when Brandler refused to bar admission of a tape sent to an L.A. radio station on which Harris talked about the shootout; both defense and prosecution experts had testified that the tape could have been altered...
Adding to the Harrises' troubles, Patty belatedly offered to testify against them. Weinglass thought that Patty's accusatory testimony might backfire by seeming self-serving. But another of Brandler's unfavorable rulings really boxed the defendants in. If the Harrises took the stand, Brandler held, the prosecution had the right to cross-examine them on some of their writings which discussed Patty's kidnaping and a bank robbery that otherwise could not be mentioned to the jury. Shortly after that decision, Harris stunned the courtroom. "In light of the court's ruling today, I make...
...riding than stealing, and that the two owners had been taken along without intent to kidnap. This last argument, especially, was fairly flimsy stuff, since one of the car owners testified that he was held at gunpoint. At week's end, while the jury was still out, Judge Brandler began hearings that the defense hopes will lead to a mistrial or a reversal on appeal. The issue: that before the trial began one member of the jury had declared the Harrises obviously were guilty...
...evidence any of the 1,000 or so documents, notebooks and papers, including the Tania interview, that had been seized in the Harrises' apartment when they were arrested last Sept. 18. Bailey based his objection on a ruling the day before by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler, who held that material taken from the apartment could not be used in the forthcoming state trial of the Harrises because it had been seized by FBI agents who had not obtained the necessary search warrant.* Browning wanted to show the jury some of these materials, which covered the year...
...Mack, along with her crew, Ruth Brandler, sailed one of her best races of the season, taking three firsts and two seconds in the B division. In the A division, Marie Roehn came out of a slump by the end of the meet and finished the last two races to take a second and a first place...