Word: arnason
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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Judge Richard Arnason has already ruled that parts of the diary are too rambling to be relevant. But all last week he was pondering the complexities of admitting into evidence an edited version prepared by the prosecution. Without the diary, says Prosecutor Harris, "we might as well all pack up and go home...
Inside the small courtroom the security is also tight, but unobtrusive. The area in front of Judge Richard E. Arnason's bench is clogged with tables and people. At one table Prosecutor Albert W. Harris Jr. sits with an assistant. The rest of the limited space is filled by half a dozen deputies with walkie-talkies and a bailiff-all armed with revolvers. In the first rows sit 30 members of the press contingent, which includes correspondents from the Soviet Union and East Germany, where Angela Davis is considered a political prisoner...
Superior Court Judge Richard Arnason stipulated in granting bail that Angela neither leave the area nor participate in public rallies without permission of the court. Looking better than she had in months, a smiling Angela told reporters, "This has been a true victory, a people's victory-not only my release but the abolition of capital punishment." Then she went back to preparing for her trial on murder, kidnaping and conspiracy charges for allegedly providing four guns used in the August 1970 Marin County courthouse shootout in which a judge, two convicts and an accomplice were killed...