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...York Mets--Announced that Fran Healy will replace Bud Harrelson as a broad caster...
...assassinated in this century. That single shot triggered one of the most extensive federal investigations and prosecutions in U.S. history. The three-year investigation cost $5 million. Last week the work paid off: after an eleven-week trial, a San Antonio jury found the Government's suspect, Charles Harrelson, 44, a twice-indicted and once-convicted contract murderer, guilty of killing Judge Wood. Harrelson faces a mandatory life sentence...
Convicted on other charges were Harrelson's wife Jo Ann and Elizabeth Chagra, the wife of Convicted Drug Smuggler Jamiel (Jimmy) Chagra. Just prior to Wood's death, Chagra was awaiting trial for narcotics dealing before Judge Wood, known as Maximum John for his stiff sentences. Chagra allegedly paid Harrelson $250,000 to do the killing. Now serving 30 years for drug trafficking, Chagra will be tried next month for murder and conspiracy...
...Harrelson may not have seen his last of Texas courtrooms. He could be tried again for the murder in a state court, where conviction could lead to the death penalty. Said Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray Jahn, the chief prosecutor: "When Judge Wood died, justice...
Unlike many accused felons, Charles Harrelson did not try to depict himself as an upstanding citizen, even while proclaiming his innocence. On trial in San Antonio since late September for the 1979 assassination of Federal Judge John H. Wood Jr., Harrelson, now serving a 40-year sentence on drug and gun charges, testified last week that he could not possibly be guilty. Reason: on the morning the judge was shot dead in front of his San Antonio town home, said Harrelson, he had been in Dallas, running some extraordinary errands: returning a golf putter he had borrowed to determine...