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,,.Lucas attorney will seek closed hearing By ~f!maka Court Judge Herbert J. Exarhos. ln each of the cases, the throats of that a much smaller percentage have v1ct1ms were slashed. Santiago. who formed an opinion <·oncerning the Starr Writer

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The 29-year-old Casa de Oro car pet maintenance man faces a June 17 preltmmary hearing in connection with the !'.fav 4, 1979, deaths of Su- zanne Jacobs, 31, and her son, Colin, 3, of Normal Heights and the Dec. 8, 1981, death of Gayle Roberta Garcia, Lucas also laces an Oct date in connection with the Nov. 23 slaymg of&SD coed Anne Catherine Swanke, 22; the Oct. 20 slaymgs of Rhonda Strang, 24, and Amber r'isher, 3, a child Strang was baby- sitting in her Lakeside home, and the June 9 attempted murder of Jody Santiago, 29, of eattle, who was ab- ducted after emergmg from an El Cajon restaurant near her brother's I trial 29, of Point Loma.

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testified at Lucas' first preliminary hearmg, identified Lucas as the as- sailant who assaulted her and left her on a roadside near Mount Helix Saunders also asked the court to impose a gag order on all attorneys, witnesses and court officials . Saunders cites statistics he said were gathered by pollster Oscar Ka- plan _to demonstrate the extent of He said the poll indicates that a substantial percentage of the com- killing Anne Swanke and that a 1g- nificant but les:;er percentage be- lieve he 1s guilty of killing Suzanne pretrial publicity munity believes Luca is guilty of

The attorney for David Allen Lucas said yesterday he will seek to bar the press and public from a pre- liminary hearmg on three murder charges faced by Lucas and the hear- ing on his motion to remove the dis- trict attorneys office as prosecutor of the cases. Attorney William B. Saunders said he will move to close the hearings on grounds that "pretrial publicity has created an atmosphere of prejudice that makes it doubtful that (Lucas) will be able to obtain a fair trial in San Diego absent some protective action by the court." Saunders' requests are scheduled to be heard May 23 before Municipal

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Kaplan s results md1cate that of 500 people polled, 436 said they heard or read about the Swanke case. The polls indicate that 45 percent of the people in the county expressed belief he was guilty, 2 percent not guilty and 53 per cent not sure. Of 287who heard or read about the Jacobs killings, 31 percent said they bc>lieved he was guilty, 4 percent not guilty and 65 percent said they were Of the 174 people polled who had read or heard about the Garcia case, 33 per cent said they believed he was guilty, 4 percent not guilty and 63 percent said they were not sure. not sure.

losing his sight. Smee then, he has taught full time. authored several books and run for na- tional office. Simmons has chosen to act to see that the things he cares about move in the direction he believes in. An Independence Award for corporate achievement wJll go to Carroll Davis, president, and the Radisson Hotel. The Radisson was conscientiously planned to be totally accessible to disabled people. ays Davis, who remembers his fellow Marines who were disabled in Vietnam, said, "I have never hesitated, in all my years as a developer, to keep disabled individuals foremost m my construction for- mats " KC T-TV, Channel 10, will receive the award for media achievment. KCST has demon- strated outstanding and on-going support of disability service organization. 1d continued will- ingness to air public service an- nouncements aiding disabled people. The station was found to have used the powerful medium of television in the most positive and sensitive manner to benefit disabled people the awards cererrtbny will be an auc- tion of fine art by a selection of known artists and in a variety of media, styles, sizes and prices. A Entertainment following

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disabl d leaders Gloria Lan and Robert 1mmons will receive award· from the Community Servic Center for th Di abled at the In depend •nc • Awards Dinner and fine art auction on May 11. The dinner, ho. ted by di.abled Chan- nel 10 news anehor Bree Walker, will be held at the Radisson Hotel m Mi.. ion Valley. Recipient of an award for indi• v1dual achievement, Gloria Lane, who has multiple . clero. L CMS), b founder and director of the Women's International Center. publisher of Who' Who Among • an Diego Women and a core professor at ational Umver 1ty. Lane states, "M only slow me clown; it doe n't change my di- rection ... There is nothing in thi world that 1s not poss ible. Some thing.· we just haven't figured out how to do yet .... " Robert Simmons, J.D., who will al. o receive an Independence ward for individual ach1eve- m nt, i a law profe. sor at the University o · n Diego, founder of tt an Carlo· Area Council. co-found r of the Utibty Con- sumer Action etwork (UCA J and a 1984 U.S. Congressional candidate. immon , who i blind, live the philo ophy that independence is a state of mind. He returned to teaching within four wePks of community

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/ Attorney seeks to close Lucas pretrial hearing By Mike Konon . .L Tribune SIJJ/f Writer q7 7

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F1Sher, 3, and her baby sitter, Rhon- da Strang, 24, in Strang's Lakeside home; and of trying to kill Jody San- tiago, a Seattle woman who survived a throat slashing, a skull fracture and knife wounds June 9. In the motion for a closed prelimi- nary hearing, Saunders said publicity has made it doubtful that Lucas could receive a fair trial. Saunders gave the court a survey by Dr. Oscar Kaplan, director of The San Diego Poll. Kaplan found that 87 percent of 500 people polled had heard of the disappearance of Swanke and discovery of her body. they believed Lucas was guilty of the murder of Swanke, 45 percent said yes and 53 percent said they were not sure. Two percent said Lucas was innocent. Sixty-seven percent said they had heard of the Santiago kidnapping. Of those, 63 percent said Lucas was guilty, 1 percent said he was inno- cent, and 36 percent were unsure. Fifty-seven percent had heard of the Jacobs killings. Of those, 31 per- cent said Lucas was guilty, 4 percent said he was innocent, and 65 percent were unsure. Thirty-five percent had heard of the Garcia killing. Of those, 33 per- cent said Lucas was guilty, 4 percent said he was innocent, and 63 percent were not sure. Asked whether

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An attorney representing David Allen Lucas has requested that the public and press be excluded from his preliminary hearing on charges of murdering two women and a boy. The lawyer. William B. Saunders of the county public defender's office, filed documents in Municipal Court yesterday requesting that the hear- ing, scheduled to start June 17, be closed and that participants be for- bidden to comment outside court. Saunders asked for a May 23 hear- ing on his request, the same day bis motion to disqualify District Attor- ney Ed Miller's office from prosecu- tion of Lucas on the grounds of con- flicts of interest is scheduled to be heard. Lucas, 29, is accused of the May 4, 1979, slayings of Suzanne Camille Jacobs, 31, and her son, Colin, 3, in their Normal Heights home and the Dec. 8, 1981, killing of Gayle Roberta Garcia, 29, a real estate saleswoman, ia a home for sale in Spring Valley. The defendant has been bound over to Superior Court for trial Oct. 1 on three other murder charges and one count of attempted murder. In that case be is accused of the Nov. 20 slaying of University of San Diego honor studefit Anne Catherine Swanke, 22, who disappeared in La Mesa; the Oct. 23 slayings of Amber

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-~n Snyder, a professor aU.ISD-- L School has been named director aw ' ·t· f one of of Alternatives to L1 i~a ion, . . . several mediation proiects_ tered by the law school. ;z.51fi;/

- pointed director of the Universisy of Sa!!...,Diego law school's Alter- natives to Litigation, one of several mediation projects run by the school's Law Center. He had been teaching training courses at the center

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Christopher James Miller. son of James and Rita Miller. 656 Norwynn Lane. was honored May 9 at the Uni~ity of San Die~·s Honors Convocation . Nominated bv Dr. Cole Manes PhD. '.\1D . ·chairman of the University's Biology Depart- ment. Christopher was named as the outstanding graduating stu- dent in the field of Biology. President Author E. Hughs Made the Presentation. men- tioning the fact that Miller had also maintained the highest honors in the field of Chemistry.

He will be receiving It chPloi of Snence D~rees in both Biolng\ and Chcmistr:v at commence ment exercises \1av 26 Christopher \\as also corn-

mended for departmental honors in Biology and Chemistry, his norn i nation to Who's Who Among Students in Amer ican Pniversities . and his nomination into Alpha Epsilon Delta. Delta Chapter. International Pre- \1edical Honor Society. A 1981 graduate of· Fallbrook l lnion High School. he is plan- ca"reer in medical L

Robert Cup~ 1 s Fo;:&1 EastCountymenare chosenas San Diego State distinguished alumni Four residents of East County, mclm;lin an appeals court Judge and a former school superintendent, have been named 1985 distingu~hed alumni.of San Otego State U111vers1tl:'.:, Thos~ei:l - Hobert E. Chapman, J Clifford Wallace. John Warburton and Walter A. Turner, Jr will be recognized at the SDSU Alumni &, As ociates awards banquet Saturday, May 25, at the Sheraton Harbor Island East The Alumnu~ 91 the Year title goes to Cr lg Noel, executive producer and r std nl director of t~e Old Globe Theatre. Uwpman, sel ted by the College of Engineering, 1s vice president of Judge of the US. Distnct Court for the Southern Distnct of California in 1970 and was elevated to his present position in 1972. The College of Ed ucation tapped Warburton, a former superintendent of the Grossmont Umon High School District, a founder and director of Grossmont Bank and president of Institutional Management Consultants, the largest educat1onal consul llng firm in California. Warburton has worked with more than 50 school distracts m California to help them meet their financial needs affected by increasing or decreasing enrollment lie also is a partner in Omni Space, .i manufacturer of modular classroom wuts, and Environs West, a commercial property development company.

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advanced programs at Teledyne -&an Electron1rs He Joined the company in 1967 after ht grdduation from S~U nd has held a number of increasingly re,,pon 1hle managerial positions, mcludmg proJect engineer, program manuger, manager and director of advanced systems. The ollege of Arts nd Letters sel ted Wallace, who 1s a judge on the 9th C1rcu1t ourt of Appeal Wallat·e taught law at the Unive t of San Die o Law School and Caltfornia W tern School of Law Mentio s a possible U.S Supreme Court"llt>mmee !furtng Uie Gerald Ford admm1stration, Wallace became a

The College of Busmes~ Administration chose Turner, who is executive vice pres1dentf1,f finance for Sunroad Enterprises. He recently retired as senior partner of T~i:,..J:l.oss.fil!!! Co. An expert in real estate taxation, Turner has published many articles on real estate and income tax matters and is a frequent speaker at workshops and seminars Among the other four distinguished alumni is William Kolender, chief of the San Diego Police Department. ./ .,. .

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