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...June hearing, Shaddy was ordered to stay in the hospital, but a follow-up hearing last week released him. The police and prosecutors are angry. Says Wichita D.A. Vern Miller: "People wonder whether there is something wrong with the System. Most of the police on the case say he never was insane." Added Deputy Police Chief Bill Cornwell: "Part of our problem was that evidence procedures today are such that you are unable to say the things that you want to a jury." The prosecution's view remains the same: that Shaddy hoodwinked the psychiatrists as well...
...However, Vern Countryman, professor of Law, yesterday objected to the bill, claiming it has many questionable features...
Five yards to Gilmore's right, behind a green line, were 20 people; four were the convict's invited guests: his uncle Vern Damico; his two lawyers, Robert Moody and Ronald Stanger; and Lawrence Schiller, a West Coast promoter who owns the rights to Gilmore's story. Warden Sam Smith invited them to say farewell, and then read to him the court's sentence of death for the murder of a young motel manager. Gilmore peered around the cold, harshly lit room, stared at the warden for a moment and finally said...
...time, a family reunion with his two brothers and an aunt and uncle put Gilmore in a better mood, though he was disappointed that his mother, Bessie Gilmore, was ill and could not make the trip. "The family should be together on an occasion like this," said his uncle, Vern Damico...
...Gilmore waits out the next round, book, magazine and television offers keep flooding in. Gilmore has fired his first agent, Dennis Boaz, who until recently was also his lawyer, in favor of his uncle, Vern Damico. Damico listened to a $5,000 bid from the National Enquirer, a $100,000 bid from David Susskind, and then accepted a more elaborate contract from Los Angeles Photographer and Entrepreneur Lawrence Schiller. For a $100,000 down payment, plus royalties, Schiller has arranged a package deal that includes a TV dramatization of Gilmore's life and death for ABC's Movie...