15-year-old convicted
MIAMI (AP) — Ronny Za
mora faces at least 25 years in
prison for killing an 83-year-old
woman. But the 15-year-old
boy’s attorney still contends his
defense of “television insanity”
blazed a frontier in American
law.
After two hours of deliber
ation, the jury of nine men and
three women returned to the
courtroom and to the glare of
television lights late Thursday,
just before midnight, to pro-
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Jury rejects ‘television insanity’ defense
nounce Zamora guilty of first
degree murder.
A minimum sentence of 25
years in jail was established at
the outset when the prosecution
said it would not seek the death
penalty.
“It’s very unfortunate that
the jury is sending this very
young boy to a state penitentary
where he will become a target
of horrible offenses,” said
defense attorney Ellis Rubin.
“The appellate court should
hear and consider this case be
cause I think the issue present
ed will forge a new frontier in
American jurisprudence,” Ru
bin said in announcing that he
will appeal the verdict.
Zamora, a slender junior high*
school student, appeared pale
and shaken as he heard an as
sistant court clerk read the
jury’s decisions.
He was also found guilty of
burglary, armed robbery and
possession of a firearm during
commission of a felony. Circuit
Judge Paul Baker set sentenc
ing for lsov. 7.
“She’s lost her child,” said
Rubin as he led Yolanda Za
mora, the boy’s mother, from
the courtroom. “It’s time to go
home."
The 52-year-old attorney at
tracted national attention by
pleading Zamora innocent by
reason of “involuntary tele
vision intoxication.”
At one point, Rubin subpoe-
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Ronnie Zamora, 15, bows his head as a verdict of guilty is read by a court clerk near
midnight Thursday. Standing beside him (r) is his defense attorney Ellis Rubin who had
argued the boy was driven to murder by “TV intoxication”. (AP)
Stoner
seeking
hearing
ATLANTA (AP) - An attor
ney for Marietta, Ga., white su
premacist J.B. Stoner has
asked Gov. George Busbee for a
formal hearing on Alabama’s
request to extradite Stoner to
face charges in connection with
a 1958 church bombing.
Busbee press aide Duane Ri
ner said the request came from
attorney L.S. Cobb in reaction
to the extradition request
signed this week by Alabama
Gov. George Wallace.
The extradition request
hasn’t reached Busbee’s office,
Riner said, but he noted that
Busbee had said he would order
a hearing on the matter if Sto
ner requested one.
Stoner has denied having
anything to do with the bomb
ing.
Busbee is out of the country
on an industry-hunting trip, but
Riner said a hearing could be
conducted in his absence and a
recommendation from legal
aides might be on the gover
nor’s desk when he returns.
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in connection with the bombing
of the Bethel Baptist Church in
Birmingham. No one was hurt
at the church, which was a cen
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naed actor Telly Savalas of the
television series “Kojak” to
testify on the effects of TV vio
lence. However, the subpoena
was withdrawn.
Rubin said Zamora had been
conditioned by television to
shoot his next-door neighbor,
Elinor Haggart, when the elder
ly woman caught him and an
other person ransacking her
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14, the other person accused in
the case, begins today.
“I wonder how many murders
Ronny Zamora saw before he
wound up in Elinor Haggart’s
living room,” Rubin said in his
closing arguments earlier
Thursday. “If they sell deodor
ant and automobiles and beer in
30 seconds, imagine what 30
minutes of violence can do, re
peated again and again and
again.”
—Griffin Daily News Friday, October 7, 1977
2 men resentenced
to life imprisonment
PEARSON, Ga. (AP) - One
of two men sentenced to the
electric chair for the 1973 rape
of a Florida woman near Adel,
Ga., has been resentenced to
life in prison.
The Thursday resentencing of
John Wallace Eberhart, 24, was
in line with a U.S. Supreme
Court ruling banning capital
punishment for most crimes in
which the victim is not killed.
Eberhart also has been sen-
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tenced to 20 years in prison for
simple kidnaping, a charge
stemming from the same case.
The sentences will run con
secutively.
John Wesley Hooks Jr. also
was sentenced to death in the
case, but he was not resen
tenced Thursday, because his
attorney was not present. A
third person found guilty in the
case was originally sentenced to
life in prison.
