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San Diego, Calif. Southern Cross (Cir. W. 27,500)

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hands because he already did it when I was gone before. It's like the program didn't miss a be~t without me. When I came back 1t was like the players said, 'Who are you?'" Before arriving at Pomona- Pitzer Katsiaficas was an assistant coach' for a professional team in Sweden for one season. He was also a three-year varsity player for Tufts University in Massachusetts. Lowell Thomas, who coached North Hollywood High School for the last five years, has been named men's soccer coach at Occidental College. Thomas, whose North Holly- wood teams posted a record of 36-21-11 and reached the L.A. City playoffs three times in five seasons, will have his first game as coach against Point Loma Nazarene on Sept. 8 on the school's new soccer field.

Chafe/ lf:-fr:as, an assistant at the Umversit._y of San Diego last sea on, has been named men's basketball coach at Pomona-Pitzer College in Claremont. Kat 1aficas replaces Gregg Po- povich, who resigned after nme seasons to become an assistant with the NBA's San Antonio Spurs. It 1s the second coaching stop at Pomona-Pitzer for Katsiaf1cas, who was an assistant under Popov- ich from 1984 through 1987. Kats1- ficas was interim coach during the 1986-87 season while Popovich was on sabbatical leave. Katsiaficas guided the team to a accond-place finish in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference during that season and Popovich said he expects a smooth coaching transition. '!This is the second time around fo: hnn," Popovich said. "I think the program's in more than capable

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"Luke: Gospel ol the Spirit," a series of lectures by Reverend Jack Lindquist, will begin Sept. 11 and continue for eight consecutive Sunday evenings It will be held at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnation in Poway. Sponsored by the Institute for Christian Ministries Call 260-4784 for details.

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3 nominated to 4 h District appeals court c;~ of man, arcs, Froehlich are g vernor' choices

~es: Peyer judge, 2 others chosen 1/ Continued from A-20 riq'!J'5 candidates. . Gov. Edumund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. . . /. Nares has presided in civil, domes- Froehlich, who earned a reputa- fully to the 4th. DJStnct, where th e tic and criminal divisions of the Su- tion as diligent and thorough on the full case soon will be appeale_d. perior Court in Vista, most recently bench, retired six years ago to pur- Nares, who was on vacation a nd over the Troiani trial. In 1981, how- sue a partnership in an Escondido could not be reached for comment ever, he entered an Oceanside con- wif!ery, to take care of his avocado yesterday, was upported for a court troversy over rent control that went orcl\ards and to prac ice hu~iness of appeal po 1t1on _.n_ 1986 by Repubh- on for four years until it reached the law. can Hisp_amc acl!vJSts,.. w~o th reat- state Supreme Court. He reportedly expressed frustra• e_ned to sit ?ut Deukme1 1 a~ s re-elec- Nares twice declared the city's tion with the justice system upon his tlon campa1~ on the b~is th at th e rent control ordinances affecting departure, a frustration that yester- governor failed to appomt enough mobile· home parks unconstitutional, day appeared to have been replaced quahfied HJSpamcs to important po- a decision that was overturned by with an eagerness to have a role in sitions. the 4th District. The Supreme Court shaping the law on the appellate The discontent surfaced in Sep- finally refused to hear the case, leav- court. tember when Deukmejian appointed ing intact the appellate court ruling. Froehlich received his law degree Todd to an appellate seat that local A graduate of the U ·versit of from the University of California, Hispanics had been eyeing for Nares. San Diego laJLschoo.J. Nares was in Berkeley, where he _later_ taught for At the time, Deukmejian's judicial private practice in Oceanside for two years. He was m private prac- appointments secretary, Marvin eight years before his appointment to tice until his appoi~tment to the Su- Baxter, said Todd's appointment was the Municipa Court in 1976 and then penor Court bench m 1972 by Ronald a close call among several qualified to Superior ourt in 1978 by former Reagan.

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thr e openm on San Diego s 4th Di tnct C urt or Appeal, two Mth upcnor Court Judg who recently pr 1d d over murder trial that rank among the county' m t cele- brated Nominal d to th app llate court wer Jud Richard D Huffman, 49; Judg Gilb rt Nares, 45 and former Superior ourt Judge Charles W roehhch Jr 59, who retired from the bench In 1982 Huffman's n mtnation was expect- ed by many m th legal community who had long predicted that the well- known former pr e utor and the Judge who presided over the two tri- als of former CHP officer Craig Peyer would be elevated. "It' fanta tic I'm delighted. What more can I y? I pent a lot of years lrymg to qualify for that position,"

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Judge Charles Froehlich Recently In private practice id Huffman. who w vacat10ning m Los Angeles yesterllay scraping paint from the roof of his mother's hou e. He characterized his 20 years of trial expenence and 16 years as a law professor as his •~rincipal as- sets," but then laughingl>' added, "be- 1d bemg charming."

Judge Gilbert Nares 10 years in North County

Judge Richard Huffman Presided over Peyer trials friends to kill her husband and share in the insurance money. The governor's choices were com- plimented yesterday by San Diego County Bar President Edward Hunt- ington, who expressed surprise only that Froehlich hai decided to re- See Judges on P ge A-20

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Huffman's trial skills and experi- ence were lauded by legal observers, as were those of Nares, a Superior Cour judge in North County for the past 10 years, who presided over the county's most expensive murder trial. It ended last year in the convic- tion of Laura Troiani, an Oceanside woman who plotted with her Marine

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Jii~ges: Governo fills appeals court vacancies Continued from A-1 I\.,°\,~ c::; The entire distrkt, however, als? in- enter the judicial arena. d c~udes the counti~ of Orange, R1ver- "I have no argument with any of side, San Bernardino and Inyo coun- them," Huntington said. "I think they ties. , . . all are excellent choices." The governors San Diego appomt- Froehlich yesterday said bis ~ents are expected t~ be easily co~- strengths are 10 years on the Superi- fi_rmed by_ the Comnuss1on on Judi- or Court bench coupled with a recent c1al Appomtments, a three-member six years of law practice. pan~! whjc~ is expected to_ conduct.a "From my perception and legal- public heanng on the nommattons m social orientation, the appellate about a month. . . courts in California at the present Huffman spent his career m the time have a significant opportunity p_ublic spotli_ght, h~ndling high-pro- to shape the law in what I consider to file prosecutions with both the state be positive fashions," he said. attorney general's office and the San The local nominations bring to Diego district attorney's office. seven the number of appellate court He won such convictio~ as those appoi. 1 tments the Republican gover- of mo?,ster ~ladene "JIIllmy_ the nor ha· made in San Diego. All three Weasel Frattanno for consprrac! nominees are Republicans and were and Robert Alton Har:1s for the cap1- among six court of appeal nomina- ta! murder of two Mira Mesa teen- lions announced yesterday, The other agers. three were on the 6th District Court His last celebrated prosecution, of Appeal in San Jose. however, was of former San Diego With the appointments, the 4th Mayor Roger Hedgecock, whom District in San Diego grows from a Huffman successfully convicted of six-member bench to eight, an ex- conspiracy and perjury charges after pansion approved last year by the a first jury deadlocked. If Huffman is tate Legislature. Judges in Division confirmed, he will join William L. 1 of the 4th District rule on cases in Todd Jr., the trial judge on the San Diego and Imperial counties. Hedgecock case, on the appellate court.

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Huffman, who will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Edward T. Butler, was appointed to the Supe- rior Court bench by Deukmejian in 1985 and presided over both the trial and retrial of Peyer for the murder of San Diego State University stu- dent Cara Knott. Huffman stole the spotlight at times with a variety of rulings, in- cluding those involving a San Diego Union reporter's refusal to divulge additional infonnabon about a lie de- tector test Peyer took that was dis- closed in print during the trial. The rulings sent the defense unsuccess-