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Chase called the ski tournament "one of the funniest things ever done on television, although legally it wasn't proper." The segment showed a ski tournament in which Longet, who was convicted of manslaughter in the killing of skier Spider Sabich, is supposedly shooting skiers as they race down a mountain...
...trial was followed by a quick sentencing-and Claudine Longet, convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the gunshot death of her lover, Ski Champ Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich, was condemned to 30 days in the county jail. Although Longet pleaded with Judge George E. Lohr not to separate her from her three "very gentle and open" children, Lohr did not relent. To impose no jail sentence, he said, might "unduly depreciate the seriousness of the offense or undermine respect for the law." Longet chose not to appeal her conviction, but she told a phalanx of reporters that she had been unfortunate...
After the shooting, Longet told police that she had found a .22-cal. pistol in the house and had decided to ask Sabich how to operate it, thinking the gun would be good protection when he was away. As they talked the gun fired, hitting him in the abdomen. Murder was out, but she was indicted for "reckless manslaughter...
...defense, Longet -wan and wide-eyed and conservatively turned out in shirt and sweater-was her own best witness. She told the jurors that "Spider and I loved each other very much," an assertion that contradicted local gossip that their relationship was on the skids. The word was that Sabich had ordered Longet to leave because he was tired of her jealous, inhibiting manner. Prosecutor Anderson claimed to have a witness whom Spider had bet $100 that Longet would be gone by April, but he never produced...
Longet told how she had asked Sabich if "the lever [the safety switch] is on the spot; is it safe? And he said, 'Yes, it won't fire.' " Weedman interjected, "And then the gun went off?" Her eyes filled with tears, Longet said, "Yes." In the gallery, Williams was wet-eyed...