Charles Manson
The trial of John Mason began in mid-June 1970. It was presided over by Judge Charles Older. The trial took place in the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles at the eighth floor. The judge appointed 2 jurors who would help in the case. Charles insisted on defending himself though he was assisted by a lawyer by the name Irving Kanarek. He was known for his frustration on witnesses and judges. The other lawyer who defended Charles was Ronald Hughes who was referred to as the hippie lawyer and was Leslie Van Houten’s lawyer.
Kanarek may have found some kind of record for arguments in the Manson trial. He objected a total ofnine times in the prosecution's opening remarks. By the third day of trial, he had authorized more than 200 objections when the media ceased keeping track of them. Regularly, Kanarek's objections were created in "shotgun" type, such as many recommended reasons that were completely inapplicable: "Leading and suggestive; no foundation; summary and rumour." Other periods his arguments were designed to impact the judge. For instance, he objected to Linda Kasabian's testimony by announcing, "Object, Your Respect, on the reasons this observe is not qualified because she is insane!" Kanarek also flooded the judge with activities, many of them novel to say the least, such as a movement to have "Mr. Manson covered up from evidence" as the item of an unlawful look for. Kanarek brought up eye-brows for asking unusual concerns, such as when he requested Kasabian (during his seven-day cross-examination after Kasabian's immediate declaration in which she exposed she had taken LSD about 50 times), Atkins was the first to give a testimony. She had been assured of a reduced sentence for giving her testimony as she was the first one to be arrested. However this offer was revoked after Atkins replenished her royalty to Manson.Individuals who realized them but were not aspect of the team revealed other confessions from Manson and Close relatives about one time. On Nov 12, the L.A. Sheriff's investigators had an opportunity to meeting Al Springer who was a participant of the motorbike team known as the Directly Satans who had been engaged with the Manson Family associates off and on. The investigators were amazed when Springer informed them that a few times after the Tate killings that Manson had boasted to him about eliminating people: "We broken off five of them just the other evening." Springer remained obvious of Manson after that, but described that Danny DeCarlo, another participant of the motorbike team resided at the Spahn Farm with the Family associates wrote on? "Charlie said they had written something on the screwing fridge in blood vessels...Something about hogs or niggers or something like that.” When the cops finally got to Danny DeCarlo, they had an earful of charlie and his Close relatives. Not only did DeCarlo validate their culpability in Grettle Hinman's loss of life, but he suggested as a factor them in the loss of life of a 36-year-old farm side known as Shorty, a handle for Brian Shea. He was murdered because he would tell the proprietor of the Spahn Ranch what was really occurring on his residence. "Shorty was going to tell the old man Spahn...and Charlie did not like snitches," DeCarlo described.DeCarlo had been informed what they did to his buddy Shorty: "they trapped him like chiselling up a Christmas chicken...Bruce (Davis) said they cut him up in nine items. They cut his go off then they cut his hands off too, so there was no way they could probably recognize him. They were having a laugh about that." A wallet that belonged to Rosemary Lablanca was found at a restroom in a service station believed to have been left there by Linda Kasabian. It was wedged in the toilet tank. This piece of evidence was critical in strengthening the story of Susan Atkin in the case. However, she resorted to retract her testimony when she started feeling the pressure from Charlie. Another piece of evidence that was found was the 22 calibre Hi Standard Longhorn revolver that had a broken gun grip. The gun had been found by the son of Bernard Weiss and handed over to the police 3 and half months later. He called the LAPD to know whether the gun was the murder weapon when he learned about the prosecution on the newspaper. However it emerged that the gun had gotten “lost” after some time. Weis blamed the police for losing the most vital piece of evidence in the Tate case. Later on, the police found the gun and ran tests and found out that it was the murder weapon. The gun was linked to Manson when a Randy Starr claimed that he once was the owner of the gun but sold it to Manson. Another valuable piece of evidence was found when police were contacted by the owner of the place where the Tate killers cleaned up after the murders. The man had memorised the license plates of the car they used to travel in and was later traced to an employee at Sphan Ranch who had given the car to Manson and his girlfriend.
Works cited
Douglas Linder, 2008. Famous trials: The trial of Charles Manson,http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/manson/manson.html [Accessed on 05/11/2013]