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...Manson, a model prisoner in his special-security jail cell, has been quiet in court. He sat 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...
...Knife. This week Bugliosi plans to bring to the stand the only defector from Manson's apparently total control, Linda Kasabian, 21. Mrs. Kasabian is the mother of two; her second child was born recently while she was in jail. Like many of Manson's young women, she came from a broken home. When she left her second husband for the desert life, she took their child and a friend's $5,000 with her. She was indicted along with the three other women but has been granted immunity in return for her testimony.* According...
...strangest elements in the case is that no one places Manson at the Tate murder scene, but he is charged with being the moving force. Nothing has emerged to explain how Manson exerted his remote control at the time of the murders...
...said to have had a hypnotic effect on his followers, but none have said they were in fact clinically hypnotized when the murders occurred. The Manson tribe used hallucinogenic drugs frequently, but there has been no claim so far that they were tripping the fatal night. Mrs. Kasabian will testify, Bugliosi said, that Manson instructed her to get a knife, a change of clothes and her driver's license and accompany the other defendants to the Tate home in Benedict Canyon. There, the prosecution charges, five people were murdered only because they were unlucky enough...
...jury hearing the case is in itself a measure of its strangeness. The defense effort, dominated by Manson, precluded an attempt to get a favorable jury; Manson had decided that this was impossible, so less than one-fifth of the defense challenges were used. As a result, the jury includes both a former deputy sheriff and a private security guard, as well as a juror who admits he believes Manson is guilty. But the defense is expected to attack the credibility and competence of Mrs. Kasabian with evidence that-though Bugliosi described her as a relative neophyte in the Manson...