Word: labianca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial for the Tate-LaBianca killings convened in Los Angeles last June, Chief Defense Counsel Paul Fitzgerald admitted: "There is no way we are ever going to get a reasonable jury. So we decided to frustrate the prosecution attempts to select a good jury and try to keep every dingaling we could find, to get the worst possible jury...
...trial of Charles Manson and his tribe was from the beginning like a species of absurdist theater. The defense, in effect, was no defense at all. The lawyers representing Manson and the three women charged with the Sharon Tate and LaBianca murders had no outside witnesses to help their case. The attorneys were afraid to put the women on the stand, believing that they would take full responsibility for the killings in order to absolve Manson...
After Charles Manson delivered his extraordinary sermon against society last month (TIME, Nov. 30), his trial seemed all but ended. He refused to repeat his testimony for the jury and ordered silence for the three girls, who are his co-defendants in the Tate-LaBianca murders case. Since the defense had presented no witnesses, the only unfinished business was the lawyers' final arguments, various motions and the judge's charge to the jury. Then one of the defense attorneys vanished...
...night Miss Tate and four houseguests were slain: that she did know the mission but went fearfully the following night when, she said, a Manson angered by the "messiness" of the Tate killings went along himself to arrange the murder of a middle-aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. Leno LaBianca. Bugliosi is trying to establish that Mrs. Kasabian, who was originally indicted but has since been promised immunity in exchange for her testimony, is not legally an accomplice in the murders. It is a vital question that Judge Charles Older may eventually decide. If Bugliosi's characterization...
...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...