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Defense dominates Brawley trial
POUGHKEEPSIE, M.V,
(AP) It sometimes looks like a
defamation lawsuit that got hi-
Jjacked.
The trial of Tawana Brawley's
former advisers has barely touched
in recent weeks the defamatory
statements Alton Maddox, C.
modyumgTos £ by et
ton are of having
made. It has dwelled — in me
thodical detail —on the actions of
the black teen-ager and local au
thorities just after her alleged No
vember 1987 abduction and rape.
Much of the reason is because
defense attorneys have dominated
what the jury hears as the trial
enters its seventh week. The first
three witnesses called by plaintiff
Steven Pagones’ lawyer have been
cross examined at great length to
forward the defense’s claims re
cently, that the local prosecutor’s
Black motorist charged
From page two
He snatched his license back
from Mankewich, referring to him
with a vulgar name. “I ain’t taking
no —— ticket from you boy,”
Campbell said as he sat down on a
guard rail.
Mankewich, meanwhile, had
called for back up. Deputies Jeff
McCowen and Vincent “Nate” Van
Ness were soon on the scene.
Van Ness approached Campbell
sitting on the guard rail and tried
to grab him. Campbell stood up
and pulled away. Van Ness and
Mankewich then blasted Campbell
with pepper spray. As Campbell
triedtorunaway, Van Nessjumped
on his back. The police major was
handcuffed and arrested a short
time later.
Campbell’s attorney has lined
up at least seven potential wit
nesses who say they also were un
fairly stopped and searched on the
Florida Turnpike. They include
the Revs. Carey Brooks and Rufus
Lee Wood, black ministers from
Panama City, who were pulled over
by Mankewich, the same deputy
that stopped Campbell.
Although Brooks said he doesn’t
believe he was stopped because he
was black, Wood has said ‘being
black played a role in how he was
treated because it’s “a pattern all
across America.” Deputies found
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office mishandled the Brawley
case,
“There was never a feeling or a
sense that there was a determina
tion in this office to get tho}forpo
trators,” said Michael Hardy,
Sharpton’s lawyer. “It became to
persecute the victim and the ad
visers. ... And that is what this
ot tedata But Hardy made
Nottechnically. But
it seem that way last week with a
skillful cross examination of
Marjorie Smith, an assistant dis
trictattorney for Dutchess County.
Smith was called to the stand by
attorney William Stanton, who is
trying to prove that the Brawley
advisers fabricated the story of
Pagones attacking Miss Brawley.
Smith had claimed during direct
questioning that Miss Brawley was
uncommunicative with investiga
tors, echoing a 1988 special grand
SI,OOO in cash in their car but
later returned the money.
For their part, prosecutors have
lined up Chief Reuben Greenberg,
the black, high-profile head of
Charleston, B.C.’s police depart
ment and a former undersheriffin
Orange County, to testify on po
lice procedure.
Prosecutors have attempted to
block Campbell’s lawyer from
mentioning race-based profiling to
ajury.
“There is no evidence that Mr.
Campbell in particular was stopped
because he was black,” prosecutor
Linda Drane said in court papers.
“This argument to a jury, with no
evidentiary support, serves no
other purposethan toinflame their
prejudices, biases or sympathies.”
Because of the media attention
to the case, prospective jurors will
be given a questionnaire asking
how much they know about the
case and how they feel about race
and police stops.
Campbell said once the jurors
hear the facts of the case, there is
only one verdict they can reach.
The police major, who was sus
pended without pay months be
fore his retirement, would get his
Jjob and pension back if he. is ac
quitted.
“Ican’t seethem doing anything
but finding me not guilty,”
Campbell said.
j;ry rop::: that exonerated
agones ted evidence
A
ut ’s ques
tioning of Smith, jurors were left
with a picture of a girl who explic
itly told investigators she was at
tacked by a group of white men,
one of whom carried a badge.
And for third time, one of
Pagones’ witnesses spent more
time on the stand answering ques
mnl designed to buttress defense
ms.
Is the case being hijacked?
Stanton says no.
“In a defamation lawsuit, you
havetolook at what's NOT there,”
he said. th
What’s not there, according to
Stanton, is a rationale from the
defense how the trio of advisers
came to implicate Pagones. It’s a
big leap from a girl’s general de
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scription of white attackers with a
badge to the trio’s explicit accusa
tion against Pagones, who was then
an assistant district attorney, he
said.
Stanton said it’s a leap the de
fense hasn’t — and won’t — be
‘bll)z:;i the def daily
te ense team’s
domination of court time, thejury’s
verdict will ultimately turn on the
question of whether the trio told
lies about Pagones, he said.
Pagones will likely be helped in
that regard by testimony to con
tinue today from a couple who say
they saw Miss Brawley crawl into
the garbage bag she was found
The defendants still have plenty
of time to make their case, though.
After Stanton finishes, each of the
three can present their own sepa
rate argument to the jury.
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