Word: houten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rumors proliferated anyway. Some newsmen remembered Hughes saying of Manson, "I'm afraid of him." One inevitable speculation was that Manson followers had kidnaped or killed the attorney. Or perhaps Hughes had disappeared to gain a mistrial and severance from the other defendants for his client, Leslie Van Houten, against whom the prosecution's case is generally considered weakest...
Despite the disappearance, Judge Charles Older ordered the trial to proceed and appointed a co-counsel, Maxwell Keith, for Van Houten. The girls angrily demanded the firing of all their lawyers, and asked to reopen the defense so that they could put 2.1 witnesses on the stand. Judge Older said no. By week's end Hughes had been missing for 15 days, and searchers in the mountains doubted that he would be found alive. Meanwhile the judge gave Keith until this week to familiarize himself with the transcript, which totals 18,000 pages. That may have seemed unreasonable...
...courtroom, a young woman spectator in the back row cried softly. There was, audibly, the release of withheld breathing after the most vivid passages. The jurors leaned back, remembering suddenly to use their notebooks. Manson's co-defendants-Miss Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten-sat still and attentive, their foreheads now scratched with the outcast's X that he had cut into himself earlier in the trial...
Defense attorneys for Manson, Leslie Van Houten, and Susan Atkins-who face charges of murder stemming from the mass killings last August of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons-moved for a mistrial yesterday after learning that Nixon had said that Manson was "guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason...
...listening carefully to the 40-minute outline of the prosecution's case, sometimes smiling his secret smile. Near him, chattering animatedly at times, were his codefendants, three essentially ordinary-appearing young women accused of extraordinary personal violence: Susan Atkins, 22, and Patricia Krenwinkel, 22; and Leslie Van Houten, 20, who is on trial only for the LaBianca murders...