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THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 28,1992

Appeals panel delays its decision on Tyson bond

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Mike Tyson remained in prison a second night after three judges delayed ruling on a request to free him during the appeal of his rape conviction. Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor now handling the former heavyweight boxing champion’s case, pleaded for his release Friday, saying Tyson’s fame would prevent him from fleeing. “MR. TYSON IS the most famous or notorious convicted rapist in the world. He wears a scarlet letter on his forehead,” Dershowitz told an appeals panel. Deputy Indiana Attorney General William Daily countered that Tyson is rich enough to leave the country easily, even though he has surrendered his passport. “If a person with $lO million in assets wants to live in another country, fight in another country, I don’t know any reason why he couldn’t get on a private plane, fly there and live out the rest of his life,” Daily said. BUT PRESIDING Judge V. Sue Shields said the Indiana Court of Appeals panel wanted to read excerpts from trial transcripts before ruling. David J. Dreyer, special counsel to the Marion County prosecutor’s office, said it may take several days to get the transcripts. Their delay means the former heavyweight champion will remain in prison at least until the panel reconvenes. The judges didn’t say when that would be. TYSON NOW inmate No. 922335 was taken to a prison intake center in nearby Plainfield on Thursday after being ordered to serve six years for sexually assaulting a Miss Black America contestant last July. Marion Superior Court Judge

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Room 606 still in demand

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The room where a teen-age Miss Black America contestant says she was raped by heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson has become a popular one for guests at the Canterbury Hotel. Located about five blocks from the downtown courtroom where Tyson was sentenced to prison Thursday, the hotel’s management is quietly trying to conduct its business as though nothing extraordinary had happened. SUSAN LOWRY, the hotel’s sales manager, said Room 606 was in a block of rooms booked last summer by Indiana Black Expo, sponsor of Tyson’s trip to Indianapolis in July.

Patricia J. Gifford handed Tyson 10 years with four years suspended on each of three counts he was convicted on Feb. 10: one of rape and two of criminal deviate conduct. The terms are to run concurrently. She denied an appeal bond, saying she believed he might flee or rape again. INDIANA LEGALI authorities say the appeals panel has the authority to reverse Gifford’s decision to deny bond without finding the judge acted improperly. The appeal could take a year. However, Daily contended Friday that Gifford, as the trial judge, was best suited to decide the bail issue. “Should this panel second-guess an extremely competent and qualified trial court judge?” he asked. DERSHOWITZ promised that Tyson would obey any terms of bail and would accept house arrest at his Cleveland, Ohio, home if the appeals panel allowed his release. “If I hear he leaves his house, I will resign the case,” Dershowitz said. “If Mr. Tyson breaks his bail, we will drop our appeal. That’s how strongly I feel.” At the end of their hour-long

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“Mr. Tyson was not a guest of the hotel but a guest of Black Expo,” Ms. Lowry said. Ms. Lowry said that until the former world heavyweight champion was indicted on charges of rape and criminal deviate conduct she wasn’t aware how big a celebrity Mike Tyson was. ONCE THE indictments were announced, the hotel’s switchboard began receiving phone calls from around the world asking questions about the hotel and its guest. Hotel management declined to comment Friday on the Tyson case, but Ms. Lowry confirmed that there had been many requests for Room 606 where the incident occurred.

hearing Friday, the appeals judges said they wanted transcripts of testimony from Tyson; his accuser, Desiree Washington of Coventry, R.L; a trial hearing about three witnesses excluded from testifying at trial; and copies of the court’s instructions to jurors. DAVID J. DREYER, special counsel to the Marion County prosecutor’s office, said the transcripts would have to be prepared. That could take several days, he said. Tyson, 25, is assigned to a single cell at the Reception-Diagnostic Center, where prison officials will evaluate him and assign him to a prison within 45 days. He is locked up alone because of “a propensity for temper outbursts and mood swings,” said Department of Correction spokesman Kevin Moore. “We want to be able to get him in the system and see how he adjusts before assigning him a cellmate,” Moore said. “That’s not unusual.” The intake center has an outdoor basketball court but no running track or weight room, he said. Tyson jogged regularly during his two-week trial. Tyson met Miss Washington, then 18, during festivities for the beauty pageant. She said Tyson lured her to his hotel room and raped her, ignoring her pleas to stop. Tyson said she agreed to have sex.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton: Picking up endorsements in Indianapolis

Brown and Clinton are willing to take AIDS test

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Democratic presidential rivals pill Clinton and Jerry Brown say they’d be willing to be tested for the AIDS virus. Brown appeared in a public television studio Friday night and Clinton participated via satellite from Indianapolis in a forum allowing Minnesota and Wisconsin voters to question the candidates. The two states’ primaries are April 7. MIKE AND Sherie Johnson of Milton, Wis., who have tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, challenged Clinton and Brown to be tested as a gesture of presidential leadership. “We’re all in this together,” Mike Johnson said. “The best thing that we can do to get rid of the stigma is all of us act in concert together. If the president of the United States, on national television, told America that all of us, tomorrow, need to be tested ... that would be true leadership.” Brown said he would be willing to take the test but said testing of all Americans might not be the best use of resources. “I HAVE NO problem taking the test, but I don’t think the medical authorities have suggested that everyone should be tested, only certain risk groups and people engaging in certain behaviors,” he said. Arkansas Gov. Clinton said he’s willing to be tested and noted that it’s a common requirement for many insurance policies. “I think we need to get rid of the fear, face the facts,” he said. The “We The People” forum involved citizens in St. Paul and in Wausau and Beloit, Wis. ON ANOTHER issue, Clinton attacked Brown’s proposal for a 13 percent flat income tax, calling it unfair to the poor and middle class. Brown has proposed scraooine all federal taxes, including Social Security, income, corporate and estate, and substituting a 13 percent flat income tax along with a 13 percent value-added tax on manufactured goods. Clinton said it amounts to a 26 percent tax. “IT INCREASES tax on most people, poor people, and increases the tax burden on the middle class, and lowers the tax burden on the

Hoosiers endorse Clinton

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton has won the endorsement of Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh, who claims the Arkansas governor would bring “a breath of fresh air from the Statehouse to the White House.” Changing his earlier plans not to endorse a candidate, Bayh came out in support of Clinton as the party’s front-runner came to Indianapolis for a brief stay and two fund-raisers Friday night. “BECAUSE OF my heartfelt belief that we in states like Indiana will not be able to make the futures we so desperately want for our citizens without a fundamental change in Washington, D.C., without shaking up the political establishment there, I have chosen today to throw my support behind Bill Clinton,” Bayh said at a news conference. “I think the choice this November is going to be between Governor Clinton and the status quo in Washington,” Bayh said. U.S. Reps. Frank McCloskey and Jill L. Long also endorsed Clinton, and Rep. Lee H. Hamil-

top 1 percent of the electorate,” he said. Brown, a former California governor, defended his proposal, saying it would reduce taxes thousands of dollars on the middle class and shift the tax burden to businesses. During his stop in Indianapolis, Clinton picked up the endorsement of Gov. Evan Bayh and other top Indiana Democrats. BUT CAMPAIGNING in Wisconsin, Brown dismissed his rival’s front-runner status, telling reporters: “Clinton is not going to get the nomination. You can put that in your tape recorder and ask me in a couple of months.” Keeping up his aggressive stance, Brown said Clinton seems immersed in a “scandal a week.” He also discounted Democratic National Chairman Ron Brown’s assertions that he was making “inap-

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ton sent a top staff member to convey Hamilton’s endorsement. State Democratic Chairman Michael P. Pannos added his personal endorsement, and steel and public employee unions also joined the Clinton bandwagon. THE ENDORSEMENTS are expected to help Clinton in the state’s May 5 primary, when 77 delegates to the Democratic National Convention will be chosen. Clinton’s only active competition comes from former California Gov. Jerry Brown. Bayh, the youngest man since Clinton to be elected a governor of an American state, had indicated for months that he had no plans to endorse a presidential candidate. In 1988, Bayh, then a candidate for governor, didn’t endorse Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee. But Bayh said he knows Clinton better than he’s known other candidates for national office, respects his expertise on education and agrees with his ideas for economic development. CLINTON promised his campaign would “work hard in Indiana and throughout the heartland.”

propriate attacks on Clinton.” Jerry Brown said: “The problem . is, there’s such a trail there that the media has to keep bringing stuff out, and I think our own party does a disservice by telling everyone to somehow cover up.” IN OTHERI presidential campaign developments Friday: • Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Brown’s choice as a potential running mate, told a Democratic rally in Van Nuys, Calif.: “If, at some future time when the nominee has been determined, if my service is called upon, I would look upon it favorably and with honor.” • Wyoming Republicans wrap-. ped up a month-long convention process and gave President Bush delegates from all 23 of the state’s. counties. • Conservative Patrick Buchanan said in Florida that his nomination ‘ challenge to Bush has made the president “a sharper candidate” who is “more aware of his weaknesses now. I think for George Bush and the Republicans this has - been like spring training or ... the preseason football games.”

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