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Whatever happened, one night of it persuaded Alfredo Ortiz, 18, and Carlos Ortiz, 17, to sign confessions. Doel Valencia, 19, repudiated his statement in the morning. The actual killing, the confessions said, was done by Angel Walker. But Angel, a one-armed ex-boxer, was too smart to talk. A grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict him. The others spent five months in jail before their day in court. Author
...days of wrangling, the jury fails to reach a verdict. A year passes, twelve more expensive months in jail, and the defendants come to trial again. The new lawyers are a bit better, but the new judge is a lot worse. The jury sets Valencia free but convicts the Ortiz brothers of "Murder One" (first degree murder), a charge that carries a mandatory life sentence in New York State...
...When Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz, a 37-year-old Mexican with a history of psychiatric problems, hijacked a Frontier Airlines 737 from Albuquerque to Los Angeles, his motive was to gain not money but a public forum for alleged injustice to U.S. minorities. He got it in the form of radio and TV interviews aboard the plane with local Spanish-language stations and then meekly surrendered with apologies to the pilot...
...which was adopted by the FAA last February, could bring fines of $1,000 each. The FAA charged that neither United nor PSA had prescreened passengers on the flights that were hijacked, and Frontier admitted that its metal-detection devices at Albuquerque were not working on the day Chavez-Ortiz pulled his protest hijack. In addition to using metal detectors, airlines are supposed to scrutinize passenger behavior at ticket counters to spot potential hijackers. But in United's case at least, it is doubtful that any profile could have pinpointed Richard McCoy, the man it seemed nobody really knew...
...second, but was stymied by a Soviet veto on the grounds, said the Russians, that their Arab friends would object to the fact that he is Jewish (a contention that the Arabs privately denied). The Soviets also vetoed another contender strongly favored by Washington: Argentina's popular Carlos Ortiz de Rozas, who, like Jakobson, gave every promise of making the most of the job and moreover came from a strongly pro-Western country...