News Clippings, 1974-1981

Online content

August 3, 1981

Dear Professor Wollan:

I'm sorry these copies came out so light. Neither of the machines
in the library would print any darker. The copies are legible, but
just barely.

When there were several editions of the paper with different stories
on the same day, I copied those which were different. When the same
story was repeated, I just copied it once.

It's interesting that George McEvoy, the man who wrote the editorial (?)
in the local section on 7/23/74, is the reporter who covered the trial
and sentencing. After he'd referred to Ford as a "piece of human garbage"
and a "sadistic savage", it's a bit hard to believe him impartial.

I'll be glad to go over the disciplinary reports if that is needed. I'll
be in Gainesville until the 15th, and can work on them anytime up till
then.

Yours,

a
Ls Se Se

Officer Dimitri Walter Ityankoff.

Photo courtesy of David Exterkamp, Photo Lab,
Ft, Lauderdale Police Department.

Sy oo ‘Exe ewhing vii, Cenc Hy he,
. Crmrmaal “Ivskee Sy stem, and he,
Cote Of Aluis, Forel"

boy reat. 8. Alber 5
Ford, 21, said to be flyankof?s kill
is moming, another

60 Pages Ten Cents i
— eS

fort “Laidetdsle Patrolman Mike

ing for’ a. gun, fed a blast <> 4

head. DeCusta threw. ap his
caliber sifle’ «

iver was sewed at i
siwtted parked out=

iped-on font, 2
“appeared to reach foe

oS LET A os

Auk ~— pore

o¢ Z
pA HCL A.

OL.

Cag,

inci. noise abit,

is water. He said a clean cloth (not
ited with chlorine and soap is sup-
carts, while they can’t be kept
P ‘time, must not have food of any
id. Food store managers, in Paf-
to please their customers as
carts or conveyors to the
get immediate action. Pafford
a maintain sanitary conditions in
cleaning the rugs, but'a word to ~~
cient to correct. the situation.
We to the health code,”must be
pap and must be adequately ven-
id.

uth of Gainesville off U:S, 441,

and inspected by two biologists
m.of the Florida Department of...
ig31, according to William Hurst, _

@ control director. Hurst said a

“Alachua County Sheriff's deputies”

hotel ba

Wrecked tanks, armored personnel
carriers and civilian vehicles litter the
coast highway outside the hotel. Wires
from two missiles hang over telephone
lines.

Gainesville Man Charged “:
In Lauderdale Cop Slaying -

". ByWILLCORBIN
Sun Staff Writer

_..A.Gainesville man was ohe_ of four: _.robbery.at.a-Red-Lobster-Restaurant,

‘arrested Sunday charged with the
fatal shooting of a Fort Lauderdale ~
police officer during the attempted .
robbery of a restaurant there.

Alvin Ford, 20, was ‘charged with
first degree murder and attempted
robbery when he was arrested by

staking out the apartment of Ford's

ake in response toa reader's
}) showed that the west side of
i pen and high in nutrients. The
| discover the source of the. ex-
prematurely age the lake, and
posted ontheir results,

girlfriend off SW Str Street; accor-”
ding to Capt. Wes Schellenger of the

_ Sheriff's department. ~~~

AlsO charged in the death ‘of
Patrolman Walter D. Ilyankoff, 40, a
I-year veteran of the Fort Lauder-
_ Bale Polite Depart

it, were "George ~ ~“reported seeing the vehicle ysedin the-

ni ‘he Turks are trying to grab
every inch of territory before the 4
p.m, cease-fire.”

The marine, who did not give his ©
name, said a-J.N. peacekeeping force ©
was in the Kyrenia pass with a large

de Costa and Alvin Lewis, both
arrested in Fort Lauderdale after the

and a fourth man, not yet identified,
arrested in Jacksonville.

Riyankoff was investigating the rob-
bery when he entered the back door of
the restaurant and was immediately
shot twice, the Associated Press
_reported. The officer returned to his _
“car, where he Tadioed “Help, ‘help,
help; I've been... .” before he was
silenced by a shot in the head as he lay
on the ground.

Fort Lauderdale police said -
Illyankoff “never hada chance.”

De Costa was arrested 90 minutes
after the robbery when witnesses

-presented by Sam’ Garrison, newly

mittee members as their minority
counsel. :

Albert Jenner, who had held that

*. position from the’start of the inquiry,

while Garrison served as his deputy,

‘) counsel working under special counsel

designated by the Republican com---~i~

‘ will remain on the staff as associate -

Due on Televised Hearings

services, 2

-The Republicans’ patience with- j
ner, a@ prominent Chicago lawyer,
happed last week when Jenner endor-
sed Doar's conclusion that Nixon had
abused his powers of office and should
beimpeached.

Garrison, who served as an aide to

;. former Vice President Spiro T.. Agnew

before coming to the committee, has

. Part in a televised discussion on ABC

provides “an overwhelming case” for
charging Nixon" with serious miscor- ~~

~ duct, while Rep. Charles E, Wiggins,
. R-Calif., said it failed to link Nixon

with any impeachable offense.
Reps. Walter Flowers, D-Ala., and
Robert McClory, R-Ill., who also took

“Issues and Answers,” said they were

iz = John Doar.
< rer had Wade Tt Clear trom the
start of the proceedings that he regar-
---ded-hirnselt-¢
- Tnittee, not the Republicans, and they
_ have repeatedly turned to ,Garrigon
when they felt the need for partisan

presenter by’!

been asked ‘by the Republicans to
rebut the. case for impeachment

In a preview of the impeachment

debate, Rep.. Don Edwards, D-Calif.,”

having a hard time making up their ____:
minds, 2 . q
Meanwhile, presidential spokesman

“Ron:

~Sunday~again~
criticized the Judiciary Committee
and said that charges against Nixon ~~

said Sunday the Doar-Jenner brief

“eb

are unsubstantiated by fact.

-- County authorities-early this morning,

not to approach the coast.

“It all depends on whether the ‘.
cease-fire actually happens,” he said,
“But I can tell you, it’s going to get
worse before it gets better.”

(See WITNESS on L. 10A)

Cront p ae

Gaps e.

Sly ae
H.

robbery. He was hiding in a rockpit
when police found him, and ‘was

~—~-shgntly wounded by a shotgun blast
when he raised a-hand. holding

“something shiny,” according to
police, :

Schellenger said police got a lead on
Ford with a traffic ticket found in the
pocket of one of the men arrested in
Ft. Lauderdale. The ticket was issued
in Orlando to Ford, and the car was
traced to Gainesville... es

Ford. was booked at the Alachua
County.Aduit Detention Center. after
he was picked up without struggie
around 10 p.rn., police said, and was
taken to Fort Lauderdale by Broward

“ILYANKOFF ©
‘Slain by Gunmen
ere ees

» dug in.

in Washin the State Depa
z th emissary, Unde
{See CYPRUS on PAGE 12A)

.. Secretary-GeneralKurt-Waldhei

inside The Sun

Jensen, who was later captured
the Turks along with two oth]
American correspondents, 8a
. Turkish jets were bombing a!
strafing Greek Cypriot positions
both sides fought to irnprove tht
positions.

South of Kyrenia, Greek ‘Cypriot &
tillery shells burst along the top|
mountains where Turkish troops h

AP photographer Paul Roque ret
, Sed to Nicosia from Kyrenia ‘with 4}
report that he saw two Turki
destroyers bombarding the port city
The cease-fire was announced fiy

nw
UN Told Cyprus
Fight Continues.

aisen NATIONS, N.Y. CAP)»

told the Security Council today ‘th
“fighting is still going on" in Cypr
following the cease-fire deadliz
agreed on by Turkey and Greece... -

j through Tuesday with ec.
castonal thundershowers. bine:
in upper 80s,

~ decide ‘impeachment:
_ Page 7A.

é yor
*_ tle black aero Pog
(2A

—
SS 1
Hyankoff Cool Pro; Entry
: Alone Puzzles Colleagues |
ese

{

(otinued from PageOne). idea that. one. of our’ men is |
dead: We've been: so. lucky,””

SB southwest: Fort Lauder jie.was the frst officer shot

yesterday, death in the line of d

hee and) I were: pas i
Hnvour:cats, he-could. , The Sheriff's: Associa

‘block: . fered. a-$1,000 rewardy a
eee aay, cm a Fort. Lauderdale
: Wait’ Tevolent Association and
Se me ternal Order of Police
_ PSO fering a joint: $5,000 te
aA avid fisherman, rlyan- [0F information leading
Hhadonly tive move years. capture. of. the, Killa
before retirement. “I Walter Ilyankoff. be ed
he’ and) Nan-were. plan “A-reab fun-loving: gules
to get a dock at Mia- loved life. Never griped, I just~
maria. and get a. larger cau't believe: it,” one officer.|
boat” said: Their” said. S et
present one is named Wahoo “It's like losing a. member _
|| Willig. “Wahoo. is-a fighting of your awn famuly,” said Po
fishitHe loved to: catch that. lice Chief Leo F. Callahan. |

\ real: sport’ fisher- In_a few more days, the

| | mane” Willie. was: the nick- who hated To write tickets will

| name of his: son: e Buried, the victim of cold:
stunned police officers londed “murder — not be.

+
© | ofiFart Lauderdale admit, ‘‘it - Cause he was Walter Myankoff
/ Shiasn® really sunk: in yet® The but because he was acop. |

F trolling incour: cars, he could:
away. from an

SOP EJYL 2 pretewe
(26 Crecliike

marina and” get a larger
2” Dadgen_ said. ‘Their

Heit bead injury

mst

Police escort suspect DeCosta Into hnspltah for Awa lineentoobeayy

ignal went out and va

Laie
“point, the wheelman qunued the Chesy and 100%
Ho of the bandits hopping iin the already move

ei a who already had Joked restaurant
coll, 3 AS-year veteran, Ob Continyed on Page 12A, Col. 1)

3 Front Peas
Howe ed ities
: vl aa (Ty

oe ts
wy) duty bnly an hour before and
Bey eh ae

hitting Tiyankott
fell, but grabbed

ig been shal
then walked aver to the fallen
shot Jini at least once behind
liber revolver, probably the po-

frcgernunt ‘af Fonte
a “tptd blboockc "'

hiro ;

<—

rsh Lollan ing oieeny
ing Cop,

urigus moving past th

Ketired pal
Chicago abo be
“Ht isn’t just the fac

filled on Duty

the history of the department i police ac have grieved ‘car the night of July 22, 1973 rammed a tree last August.

a pee Reward Shen's ‘on The lst of officers wounded
Staff Writer, ta be murdered in the line of toa ‘One suspect, in onather det When he died this morn: Over murdered comcades. in ‘Ihe. Benward Sheriff's Of ee pt at ech wound
i eave Teetetes tp } 56, Ot bis nant Pee fg Pale Chol Lao Pele Novembas 7, Pafolman” ius net death vag Deny UY LUM tee it
f always thought Ls Hes tween the trigger and the gh fahan said yesterday aller Honey ‘T. Minard was killed lames Hlherty, wl tori ea anaes
eae aeeardban angel loging al ha alee: lemme & Pande noni: He found ‘out when ‘he Henty i ballot sirwk him an Sot oi tiled ins December [1S hy oro .
Reg ad "There have Been 50 oul mug! hands an PRE cena maa ten Ug eC HS ey ate Eng
9S ahaa ihe wtainde Farr gaid: And. lueky."® en pal Said Moxie Cin” about Pa P.me alae ma Hollywuend jenelry Two Fort Lawndale motors aon Kar, inve\ eee
SEE ee eee ee een aeipy naaa Its hard 13 BenBYE: “I knew something Was store Mallandale Patrolman officers have died. iq, Soh uremnen i
goa oll ser, for the Fact fn Maj 97% Two. motongyle officers (tong Callahan said, when Auanip Hepburn Je. was tralh accidents ‘Two dolly. S41 Ree |
Fe ati find spoke of the staged in. the middle of the have died in iraffi accidents. a Police sergeant met him as gunned down by three yous word patvolmen. died’ ina qn" Wn ts alan yrecataly }

leathy of man Walicr Fort Lauderdale police station But lyankoff, was the. first Mis plane landed in Miami When he spotted them chang- high-speed chase of a purse
Watkoti — the first officer in left one brother dead and Simi

f . 7
Hollywood and Hallandale ing the license tag on a stolen 3u.\\cberohen their car (Continued on Page 28, Cel. 1) i

mom ere

c Widow |
AL node cai |
¢ hoa AGpotlnued from Page 1B) © be know that this was the ane, yay to help out the latest
oto tAtt a Bes to really be on his taes widow of 8 slain policematy
iS ih jee YbeCahe of Minard's death, And “tragically, a ps today, Mes. Mary |
oy, Bian, OO a ee, Hallandale, hoy ever, has man's death leads to a gzim, Aan Iiyankolf has to have re
atuck to the ‘ane officer per’ but mecessuty preparation bY eeived’s $].000 check trav the
| car system despite objections wives and families in vaseutt” Broward County lundsed
by patrolmen, ever happens again (ub to meet immediate finan:
| ‘A policeman's murder dot. S vel le q Minard,. Ravertie atl problem 7
if bles the alertness of fellow af Y la and ‘Theresa Ana The Wundred. club, a nh
ficers. Alter Tlyankoff's death Riley. ytdows of tain Lolly eaten
yesterday, one Fort Lauder. sind’ puticomen, united 44 nesaeseblishiessinen: It
dale “detective said, "Hels their Common. grief to lorpi $1 an
probably answered-a thousand “tie [follywond: Puke WHOA Teal utes fo ald iti ae et >
Cally ike that during. tik, 18° Aisne Aton

willed

souk TOMTy ga Fagyg, Mow soll Story alga ge neg

rd all th al
3 vty offered. Ate ‘i 7
OPe wis. directing Arathi 4
neg past Ihe search are
Ucar tales nae
cago a i
“It isle hie the fact bath

ny aie ee i a Policemen converge at prone Road a NW

Pa tale emp, Peas 8
: oS ‘3 tS
By DAVE CASEY Guns ‘have jammed in “"lt's hard to believe.” Hollywood and) Hallandale.” dames Millberry, who was each piliceman lant, huvever ike that during dns. 18
Staff Writer woult-be murderers! hands as Two. motorcycle officers. police already have grieved shot and killed in December can te invalvable 5-00 the force. How coul

@ policeman ‘lay helplessly on have died in traffic accidents. over murdered comrades, Tn of 1964. A

‘We've always’ thought we’ the geaund: Eatiney sank atc: Burt AoOkaEe Hes, the TOTS Rene rohe ore armas Tso Fart Lauderdale motor. Hollywood ‘police ng ride Ty ety te on hes tues?"

had a guardian angel looking. "jailbreak antempted by the murdered Henry T. Minard was cycle officers have died in! Men Ina-ear, specifically" Lo a pale:
over us, There have been so Hyder brothers in May 1973, “A litle bit of each of Gs when a bullet struck hit traffic. accidents. Two Holly- because of Minard’s death. man's death teads to a grim,

many close calls."” staged in the muddle of the died when he died this morn- the back as he inyestig Wood patrotnen died in a Hallandale, however, bas jit necessary preparation, by
Gene Farmer, public infor- Fort Lauderdale police station, ing,” Police Chief Leu F. Cale alarm at a Hollywood jewelry bighespeed chace. of purse stuck to the ane officer per Rit meceseuly preparation BY |

mation officer ‘for the Fort left one brother dead and an lahan said yesterday afler-. store. Hallandale. Patrolman snateher. when. the car system despite objections (Wie amen again

Lauderdale police, stared at officer wounded ~~ but not noon. He found out when he Austin Hepburfn dr. was rammed a tree last Au by patrolinen. Suellen Minard, Beverly

{his desktop and spoke of the dead, One suspect, in another returned fram his vacation jm gunned doin by three. youths The tnt. of viflicees wertuied oo policeman’s murder dow, A U611e" Muni, Bevery

jdeath of Patrolman Walter case, got his thumb stuck be- Mexico City about 1: pam. when hie spotted them chang by wuubfire, slashed ‘with bles the alectness a Tellow of Pins. We Maiteaaae

we know that this was the

|Hyankoff — the first offic ‘he trigger and the gun “I knew something was ing the license tog ana stolen knives “and. assaulted with fivers. Alter Myanhott's. death i killa’ an duty
Jthe lustory of tie department ne." Callahan said. when car the night of July 27, 1973. fists, clubs or other weapons yesterday, one Fort Lauder. fame bald on prick
to be murdered in the line of been very, very a police sergeant met him as. The Broward Sheriff's Of each year ty long Wale detective» said, "Me's pon
duty "one ppliceman said, bis plane laniied wa Bligmie PEE fice “last death wea Deputy The lessons learned trom probably answered a thousand (Continued on Page 191), Col. 1)
, ey iy SeSe5 SESSaEE Bh BGRESE ZS (rca
Au es} 3 8S oh F519 7 E5028 To gE Retest 272 5 O Sm lel
fee 3 saea gAeSe owe et aS Bae eos TFs a
Bit 3 SeszSis BBISBS a tee o nee < 8 ibe
aE 2: gebSShsre FESS 23988 =39e SS.8 F
6 geralcess RRASES A el Pek Oe i)
ee : Sag gcocs Egovgas Soegges8ie 7 oO S' SLE
# 3 eecgisk. crgg508 shaisbeese 8 3 98 S [FE
a at 2 ykidohe 5g r} $
ge FARR. D Basses cate BF 0 MH BHE
Ee LS. ge, gegeare Sate 26 bs Ne
ee ee oe 5
gs ge253e Pio22¢2 258 oo ey =f
ge 32 5 aia 258 S

{

Alvin Ford held in pe-'
liceman's murder,

ee z . .
Bet ee Ex-Raiford Guard
Bes 5 eoee

All three. suspects have
close range, aliegedls 5
FORE fabke. allegedly | bY been charged with firs-de
Ford's: three: companions. fled
car when they saw
‘approach;
The policeman may not
have been: aware a. robbery
‘in progress as he wai

there unt

pect is captured.
Detectives said a number of

tnd norked

=
z

Z Li
© pn

weeks before the holdup.

Police sources now believe
the robbery here

police Sunday they saw Ford
make: the: switch to a. green
Volkswagen.

Two of the other three
pects, anda 22<aliber ri
used" in the robbery, have
been seized. George
DeCosta, 25, of Jackso
was discovered in some
at NE Fourth Avenue and
NE: 62nd. Street by a Po
pano: Beach: police dog,

burice
Askew,
rom, the

pers
, obtained

bery. The
nearby.

£
figs ie as a tno -
325 pwp Orfued Uni 4 va Abo
< 5 4,
Esc 2S backs Une
B55

8 an armed

\
AW

Aypetrns Rosrime

la3lt4 heut pase

friegermen,

wounded Fort La

Staff Writers

ivin Bernard Ford, 21, has a fe

ack
on an armed robber

ll at Raiford pe
‘He was fired there last Marci

The alleged
rested

“ilo the head
all
Al

fe,

gan Walter tlyank:
bery attempt here
DeSoto County, but was rel

just @ hard job, with the dail
ty of being killed tossed in.

| There's-no. way you can. do it right, ES

fousstop'a man for speeding — to keep hie. = 3
from: killing: himself or others — he ‘hat
buts.

cea

ute guts. 2 a
Ff you break-up a‘family: quarrel, just i

9. the: old: man: from maiming: the: wife,

; — gins a :
<i

Some officers prefer {9 patrol alone, ay this one

: “Minard’s Widow:
_ Patrol In Pairs

(Continued, from Page: 1B)
Mrs: lyankolf accepted it. She said every day for 15

years. she-watched ber husband strap on his gun, and |
© thought:he might-not come. home
| At Fort’ Lauderdale police s
ing. briefing: just
yesterday discussed: the
> “precaution, extra: precautio

for us and

when your hus:
fot

the way Wolter:

yen with @ partner
iy {0 gi

we died alone,” she
1 policeman's wile,”

ne = died alone ~ tears
G

olo Pa trols Wrong

“shots

rg Jo.

(Continued an Rage 28, Col: 4)

Most. of them: said they do
lyankoff was alone when be was k
"Holly wood: police tried

becaue he knows he
\

ing'to: force him whe
f Patrolman» Joe Doni
might be the answer. “This
crisisorientedy Now that this fh
probably be-done. 1 think wi
when you're: answering an
Jax, because so many
‘Another ofticer simply

h men accept
And ike Wel

Jone, wer

fy
e

No one-man is to'ga it alone.
said, “And treat evaey alartt out

Aendetl onetrun ~

fPOcrrelure

cal ADCO = yt 6m

eee ek

sloudy through te

(2-Man Patrols Pushed — 1B) rested on an armed robbery warrant sworn out in (in the (raining is instruction h BP March, when that robbery war i

ah a DeSoin County, but was rebited last April caliber revolver. — the "1ng a robbery committed'on Dee 14, 1973. Ford was

By WAYNE T ieee me A DAY CASEY State Atty. John fi Blair of the 6th “hal Dirt ven edema te a aes as a Raiford file at that ‘inet sad
4.4 5 A. gudicial Big

Sropeed chare «In Tallahassee, Maurice Hari Harling. “tle came back on

2 ‘ ¥ a April 25, after the
fll: chief correctional officer at the « “sistant to Gov. Reubin Askew, ne charges against lum sere drop \ ‘gontended
| info the head of wounded For Lauderdale Patrol. Raiford Correctional Institution, said, I'm awfully. on Ford, obtained from the correction; Was a case uf mistaken identity.

man Walter Ilyaukolf during a Sunday morning rob. sarey to haye to acknowledge that Ford had been an the state Health and Rehabilitative Ser ices © Harling said Ford was rehired at Raitord on
bety attempt here was an armed guard on the state employe of ours i s., Ment, shows Ford was hired Feb. 15, April 2 sorbed there unt June 10,
Payroll at Raiford penitentiary wot six weeks ago “He was a full correctional officer, doing warden “In bis original application, Foy i y'He way fired because’ he wouldn't come to
| ing Alvin Bernand Ford, 21, has « felony record dat: or guard duty. We knew that he had bose troul conviction for breaking and emteting at Work,” Harhng said the personnel recard disc
ing back to 1971, know and as convicted of a felony’ when he yas 48!" 1971, and that he served weekart In Bradenton, authorities said they: knew so

‘The alleged triggerman who fired the fatal shot

they hired hin Ellis said Ford received a four-hour course in years for the offense," Harlin, sai a Youngster. yhu “had been in trouble! since

‘Weapons training 4 a correctional officer, Included “He worked at Raiford ic 16.

Alvin Ferd held in po;
i (Continued on Page 34, Col. 1) i
we ne RE RREAR ts Si

ticeman’s murder.

ted Fonrcl’S prs

sloslt4 — hewt page,

OC HEE Gomer: have not been: regumee
rested.” ered: a sdennfication by sake fi

“we ohie pole aber ts not yet abvolute
traced the getaway: car there
Balen sai they, bellee Lewis
‘drove the blue car used by all
four’ suspects coming 10 the

kill aliyantt but:ei-
two: Shots
bas welll
F two: bule
mpletely:
Man's _ab-

Rerman’ Alvin Bernard Ford.

85 solver The:

‘suspects had apparently fled i
the getaway cas bolore the: ob
ficer- arrived, while Ford: es:
caped in the. dying police:
man's. vehicle“ Uyanxoff’s re-
valverwas also taken.

In related develspments,
Bradenton: -police- gaves eon=
flicting accounts of a. wea
‘found during a% search!

the desth fast i eh ich
thar Hvnuk et

iworaan,’*

fiver" Te her, it's ust hee Job. Being’a
always wanted: fo do. A™* people job

She: begins: the. day’at-6:30-d.un/ and: by. nian: hay: patrolled:

Ps something she's

sector in the northeast: section of, town, answering routine

‘at anete wy Oary Gardiner

calis. Days are usually sluwer than ny shift, she says. Today
particularly: slow
“These kind’ of days you enforce a little traffic, scold a few
Wids and'play tourist guide," she smiles “It's aot “Adam 12° or
anything you see on TV."
Alpha 23," the car radio crackles, “Signal 49 silent 123 in
Saves: forbackup.””
Marty acknowledges the call and flattens the accelerator tu
the floor: She-winds expertly:in and ut of traffie up Federal to
ard the site of the alarm.
fost cars. will not move wut of her path. “Christ, { hate
she:says through clenched teeth. “People won't move an
ch for a police car. For an alarm like this, [ can’t run the
sips and lights and haif the t re false a
junday wasn’t though,” she adds quickly
Four cars arrive nearly simultaneously
taras: out te be false: The resident had tripped rs alarm
ern:
What does she feel like shen a
aucall like the false alarm sich co
tiation that resulted
‘You ieel Go!,” Marty sas
gets going With something itke an alarm,
ty dangerous or violent, of course, it picks up

(Continued on Page 40) _

Leng! OA ALi?

dechan © yor page

a at the: Red Lobster Res-
taurant; 51S0-N: Federal Hwy.
‘And. in his opening: state.
ment, Satz indicated that a
food ‘preparer at the restau-
rant named Barbara. Buchan
_an saw the slaying.

While Ford sat~ silently
ext’ {0 court-appointed de-
emse attorney, Robert’ T.
‘Adams, Satz described: how:
Ford, George Angelo DeCosta,,

| 25, of Jacksonville; Alvin Ray-
‘Lewis, 21, of Fort Lauderdale
Edward Robinson,

‘ksonville, went to the

| Lobster about 8:45° that ~

F Sunday ‘morning. of July 2 to:

‘Tob it: of some: $7,500: in: its”

While Lewis and DeCosta:
vaited' outside’ the Testaurant”

Ford.and.Robinson headed to-
ward the back door of the Red
| Lobster

| As they: neared the: door,
pte ids @ young employe
ed. Rick” deGafferelly
Fooked through the window fr
the door’ and spotted the two
Fblack''men- The taller of
them, Satz said and deGaf-
lly” later testified, was
| paling a stocking mask over
his face, but only had it to his
eyebrows. He also hada pis-
Ptol, Satz said, The smaller of
the: two, the prosecutor went
on, was. wearing a ski mask,
{Ford.is about 6 feet i, Robin:

son. about: feet 9:)

Tempers:

Punetuate

ops
rial

SBuchirnan’ sand she

‘out af his squad: ar, his|

din Bis hand and kis

tered: She’ said the of-|

opened =the back door,

F shots rang out, and tyans

Tkoffitere

Tiestirst three bandits had

“suilreadye left ie scene: in x.
oy blue

inoked: i. came: back.-t0 the
fallen’ offiver_ and. demanded
hes<

‘eplied that he:

“know where they. were;

Mise Buchanam said. And then
she: testified

ré sand

“over: that, policeman: and. shoot

ed hada hig gue with

‘bucrel He stood right

sman- and “shot

the kers
a

Mesé Buchanan |
she saiv the man, who killed}
the: policeman: she pointed at.)

therdefendant:and-st

fio bo

) Fens

ilahan and Broward State.
us

bey,
of ‘court-appoint

ore BeGEORGE: MceVOY
ee Stat Writer

th the marder of Pct
“pinned. bis hopes

her men tried to
inert bite the’ other

sake ‘tness,. nov

nf at the’ beginning: of

ib turn: a final ar-

‘tochaves spoken first today,

7 have had the tna

tnd Mes ‘Buchanan, any-
aientasue
‘onthe cross-ex-

stat ee ‘witnesses.

judge Leer will instry

tha Aig
ysAe

2qg04 4 30

‘jo [ein Bt
panan v sag
04S 8
oe

—Tlyankoff Witness Alters

Earlier Sworn Statement

(Cantina Page iB) and’ Robmeon eutered the he ran three locks 10. an |

-Hgy Robinsor and) ord'had: building, while he and Lewis apartment and called police.
veny dawn, fre side: He said. he and The seene. DeCusta painted |
unposed to-fullow. was. of two hapless bandits

in anil “help tio standing- out there, trying. to

grab the fleeing victims, while

heir two agcomplices were

Something went wrong.
mediately: People came” run
Fort fanders ning out of the place, he said.
ere the first’ Two women anda young man Phillips, to vpen the safe
ight of July nplove fled, he said, — even though’ they had
running in different directions. —slugged hie,

Red The young man, Rick deGaf- glasses so “he
‘ord. fereliy,.testilied Tuesday that tHe combination.
a shite man drove up
in a Cadillac, DeCosta: said,
saw them, said he was going
foc the police,,and'sped away.
Robinson. ¢ a ave running
out, -he: said! The three* of
them, DeCosta testified, drove
off hurriedly, leaving Ford be-

hind: :
Lewis, in- his. testimony,
said the robbery was Ford’
idea and: that they hads
cussed it the night before: via

long distance telephone:

fap) ties gut ta
IeCsta~ said;

, Im. fact, Lewis testified,
they:had planned to rob bath:
Red Lobster restaurants: in
g Fort Lauderdale.
Lewis said he knew Ford
was armed. He said that as
Ford got out of the car at the
back door of the Red Lobster,
he: placed a: long-barreled. re:
volver in-his belt.

He, too, told of people run-
ring out of the restaurant:

Lewis. and DeCosta — did
give concurring testimony on
‘one: important. aspect of the
case, »

Both said: Lewis, DeCosta
and Robinson fled the scene,
Teaving Ford behind. And both
said they heard no shots and
saw no police at the site of the |
Red Lobster. |

‘Thus, both said Ford was
the only one of them at the
scene about the time. Ilyan-
oft, responding to a report of
a robbery, drove up.

According to the state's
case, the officer got out of his
car,’ clipboard. in hand: and
gun holstered, and opened the
back door to the restaurant.

‘AS. Tiyankoff opened that
door, the prosecution main-
tains, Ford fired twice, put-
ting ‘two bullets into the of-
ficer’s abdomen. Then as
Ilyankoff lay gasping for help
into the walkie-talkie attached

_— ES reer pee tort
Jury Weighs
. Es

par rer: pons CAdin OL STarbe

tlds Cn B/C ‘Of KAnge!
> nee

the: jury to. spare her
a She: showed no visible. ;
emotion at the decision,
Mrs. llyankoft said, after
rord’s irl riend, Verna the jury's recommendation
Palmetto, had tes- death, that she hoped the (or
cision would serve-as a deter.
ent. to other criminals who ~|
might. think they could ‘get
away with gunning down a po- |
lice S a

Dba
Ima Fle jy
Teasiad Pang,

But Satz,

the peprery pros

Peutar, spoke between Adare:
Be tuens; and in 35 brief stun

‘tes and th
uC It right f
Jhitors,

Me case bare and

inthe laps: of the

Sate pointed “out that at-

mapted robber
And:

1 Is: alsor a ae
uated Mrs Bip
other: winesse

i survival,”
‘twas.

Alvin Bernard Ford made
no statement today as he was
sentenced to death for the
murder of Fort Lauderdale
Policeman Walter Hyankolf,
But he was being led into

irtroom, Ford handed

News reporter. George Me:

voy a note, In that rambling

te, Ford said:

‘son in need.

You bave to he tile to.
bts Check tt out for yours
‘self? *

‘And the talk about deugs

FLORIDA

mA At: 1) i re “4

4s Pages i Filteon Canta

ic Chair

ite ented

sift tanice
ryt fn
Lad, stinnds

re Hina
toil. heat

me i

wtb rte Cnet’: roe
admettes Un reread

7s et oleh. DANE AM ARR aw Brswaro
{37 Cex dates j

ahd tomorrow. Highs is, near
£6. Lowa tonight in upper 60s,
Chance of rain 20 per cent. De- §

Fifteen Cent

(alts, Page 3A.
Vol. 64, No, 84» Wp oe enn = Font LAUDERDALE, floniox wehonyeANULAy 6 UE " HEA 3 Sections 48 Pages

“a= FUKY LAUDERDALE NEWS | "="

Vol. 64, No. 84."

‘ewivarers comer FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1975

J ide F Finds No Basis For Mercy

By GEORGE McEVOY

Cop Killer Sentenced To Die

Ford Slips:

ye G24 hlvih fermard Fed (GiN Aone eeotehved

“Love” Note © wii inthe serie oar tor ihe rae of
‘ Laoag alter,

pe
Th was brought out at Ford's tfial thathe
off suet: fandedhiree ther nica held amp. the oted
‘the Hi af thevslain polteainan, Mary. Lobster that Sunday. movninie last sly for
h

‘Ani Tiyatikotf, looked of silently as Brows «the purpose of obtaining none witht Shi
mmuikder i 1 te Ie ‘ard Circtlit Judge. J: Cail Lee Aiphunced W.Bhiy cocaine here which they; would ten
Policeman. Walter lyn intlhed on ite 2 esta ick ian. gall at a profit in Gininescille, Pord's noite:
i ik Ba convict Dag? ob avin 219
it ashe WAR belig Te ey death a8 the bat vedi ee i of Ford's acconiplices AR
ea are Ivete be AS Hey OUMARR, ahd AGUA ae Leng

leaded guilty to second-detine minrdé

Pived Mike. sentences’ Th ue
Slate

Mi ante lenny. bdvat Ko
i TE een

ot iH in ay nie crime, 1
‘ efendant forward) Mord siekub ileal
anil Jeg irons, tind Ion te:

WE ho effort ky press
CO get The FactSio>

Ford

ondemned Staye

nll Gomm Ute) +8

n sally and ss
p tee ae

x iid. Lassoff, Ford.

ee Raiford: There he:

Florida’s: electric. chair at Raiford™ prison’ has
taken: the: lives: of 195 men. The last convict to
= die’ im ‘Old: Sparky" was executed May 12, 1961.

i 3
eee rata Me raling tthe {
nth Caroling: laws. Or it could.
the: situa. |

rinetize :
ee paces wearing: @ black mask’ and cape will
“pluce’@ black: hood: over: Ford's: head. Leather: straps. will
his legs, arms-and. waist. =
Then a 700-volt charge: will through: his. body.

make sure, two

Steg.

a 4

£: (4) fi p.

Y c
z je
Me | 7
eulS, NM
Fovt a oler OY, 4 “196, 3
| 7 ‘
‘
[ wy

‘Alvin Ford: He was convicted
in 1974.

Broward judge is adamant, says
police-killer will be put to death

By FRED STRASSER
Herald Staff Writer

Alvin Bernard Ford, convicted of
killing a police officer and sched-
uled for execution Dec. 8, failed to
get a delay, new trial or resentenc-
ing Wednesday from the Broward
County judge who condemned him
to death in 1975.

During an all-day hearing before
Circuit Judge J. Cail Lee, Ford’s at-
torneys argued Ford had not re-
ceived adequate counsel at his origi-
nal trial and should therefore be re-
tried or resentenced. Barring that,
they sought a stay of Ford’s execu-
tion in the electric chair.

Lee, his voice ringing, rejected

the plea, noting Ford was the only
defendant he had sentenced to
death during 14 years as a judge.

“The alleged deficiencies of his
defense were not enough to affect
the outcome of the verdict or the
sentence,” Lee said. “There is no
question in my mind this defendant
is guilty ... The death sentence was
proper then and now.

Ford, 28, was convicted Dec. 17,

1974, of killing Fort Lauderdale Of-.

ficer Walter Ilyankoff in what
then-Assisstant State Attorney Mi-
chael Satz called “an illegal execu-
tion.”

llyankoff had responded to a re-
ported burgiary at the Red Lobster

Thursday, Nov: 26, 1981 / The Miami Herald 5BR

SHOE
AZAAR

DEERFIELD BEACH
MON.-SAT. 10-9 SUN. 11-5

Restaurant, 5950 N. Federal High-
way, and was wounded at the
scene, Witnesses said Ford took the
officer's revolver from his holster
and shot him in the head.

Laurin A. Wollan, a Florida State
University criminology professor,

RIVERTOWN SQUARE
1043 S, FEDERAL HWY.
421-1167

contended Wednesday that Ford’s LAUDERDALE LAKES 3993-97 N.W. 19 ST.

attorney, Robert Adams, had failed || MON.-SAT. 10-5:30 SUN 11-5 _ EAST of 441

HOA CAN PEMBROKE PINES UNIVERSITY DR. — HOLLYWOOD BLVD.
Adams, in court Wednesday as a An :

possible ‘witness, refused Ro cone MON.-SAT. 10-9 SUN 11:30-5:30 Be eee

ment.

The appeal to Lee begins the last
round available to Ford, said Eisen-
berg. The Florida Supeme Court up-
held Ford’s death sentence in 1979,

Po vi.).

| m= Ol AGIAN

Talk of Our Town/2C

Deaths/10C
Latin News/16C

Sunday, December 6, 1981

The Miami Herald

Section C

Decision on Ford execution due Monday

* By MIRIAM Ci
Herald Stajf Writer

U.S. District Judge Norman C.
Roettger Jr. decided late Saturday
to delay ruling on a request for a
stay of execution from Alvin Ber-
nard Ford, convicted of the 1974
slaying of a Fort Lauderdale police-
man,

Ford is scheduled to be executed
Tuesday. Roettger set a hearing for
Monday afternoon on Ford’s argu-
ment that his 1974 trial defense was
ineffective.

Roettger said he did not think the

hearing was necessary, but ap-
proved it “out of an abundance of
caution.”

Richard Burr, one of Ford’s cur-
rent lawyers, asked Roettger to ap-
prove a stay in the meantime. When
the judge refused, Burr asked him
to.deny the stay so Ford's lawyers
would have time to appeal to higher
courts before Tuesday morning.
Roettger again said no.

Laurin Wollan Jr., a Florida State
University criminology professor
representing Ford, said after the
hearing there would be time Mon-

day afternoon to petition the 11th
Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay
if Roettger refuses to block the exe-
cution. i

The Florida Supreme: Court on
Friday denied a stay of Ford’s exe-
cution. In 1979, the state’s high
court upheld Ford's sentence,

Attorneys for Ford, 28, sought a
stay of the execution, arguing that
his lawyer at the time, Robert
Adams, did not adequately repre-
sent him in his trial on first-degree
murder charges.

Ford was condemned to death for

the execution-style slaying of Fort
Lauderdale officer Walter Ilyankoff
on July 21, 1974. Ford shot Ilyan-
koff twice while attempting to rob
the Red Lobster Restaurant, 5950
N. Federal Highway. While trying
to escape, Ford shot the officer a
third time.

Burr argued Saturday that the
death sentence was improperly im-
posed and that the crime was not
heinous enough to-justify such a se-
vere penalty.

Roettger told Ford’s lawyers, “I
can't believe you’re going to argue

-— —

that shooting a man lying wounded
isn’t-heinous.””

Burr cited Adams’ failure to ob-
ject to admission of Ford's state-
ments after the shooting, handling
of jury instructions, and actions
during the choosing of the jury as
“mistakes .. so fundamental that

they show an ignorance of the
law.”

But Paul Zacks, special assistant
attorney general for Florida, said
Burr's criticisms of the 1974 de-
fense were merely speculation.
“Monday morning quarterbacking

has got to be the easiest thing to
do.”

Roettger worried that a case
pending before the U.S. Supreme
Court, involving instructions to a
jury on the death penalty, would set
a precedent in such cases.

But Zacks argued that the Geor-
gia case the Supreme Court will
consider differs from the Ford case.

Roettger criticized Ford’s law-
yers for not taking legal action ear-
lier to block the execution, But Burr
said that Ford was without a law-
yer from February 1980 until
March 1981.

OU]

Sentinel Star

-~Central Florida

Orlando, Florida Sunday, December 6, 198

Policeman’s killer a

Associated Pross

FORT LAUDERDALE — A federal judge Saturday
Set a third hearing to decide the mercy appeal of con-
victed killer Alvin Bernard Ford, who is scheduled to
die in Florida's electric chair Tuesday morning for
killing a policeman.

“Out of an abundance of caution, I will give the
defense the opportunity to present such evidence as
they see fit Monday at 1:30 p.m,” U.S. District Judge
Norman C. Roettger Jr. said after a 74-hour hearing.

Roettger pointed out that he was “not entering a
stay at this time.”

Vord filed his appeal before Roettger on Friday

afternoon after the Florida Supreme Court turngt
down his request for a stay of execution.

Meanwhile, Amos Lee King Jr. escaped the chair in-
definitely when U.S. District Judge William a
ordered a stay of his execution, which also has been
set for Tuesday morning at the Florida State Prison
near Starke in North Florida. The ruling by Castagna
came after a state Supreme Court refusal for a stay.

Both men told the appeals courts they weren’t given
adequate legal assistance at their trials.

A Florida State University law professor, Laurin
Wollan, told the justices that Ford’s sentencing may
have been different with better legal aid during his

trial for the murder in 1974 of a Fort Lauderdale
policeman.

Ford and accomplices robbed a Fort Lauderdale res-
taurant and shot Officer Dmitri Ilyankoff, who re-
sponded to the call. Ford tried to escape in Ilyankoff’s
patrol car, but returned to the scene after finding he
didn’t have the keys. Ford shot the struggling officer
again, this time in the head, and fled, according to
case files,

Woilan argued that the lawyer at Ford’s initial trial
failed to build on factors that might have persuaded a
jury to recommend a life sentence rather than the
death penalty.

ppeals for life

He said one of those factors included Ford’s age at
the time — 20 — his good behavior beforehand and
psychological problems. .

Even without those factors, though, Wollan said, the
jury was split on its first recommendation and voted
for the death penalty on a second ballot.

The trial judge is not required by state law to follow
the recommendation of the jury.

Castagna, hearing King’s appeal in Tampa, did not
indicate when he would issue a decison,

King was convicted of raping and killing an elderly
woman near Tarpon Springs, north of Tampa, in 1975
after escaping from a nearby state prison,

Editorials/2BR.-
Deaths/5BR
Classifieds/7BR

CYal

=
News

Tuesday, December 8, 1981 _

The Miami Herald Section BR

Appeals court delays execution

Ford

By RICK WARNER
Herald Staff Writer

A federal appeals court in Atlanta
stayed the execution Alvin Bernard
Ford Monday afternoon just 14 hours
before the convicted killer of a police
officer was to die in Florida’s electric

chair.
The llth Circuit Court of Appeals

ruled moments before a federal judge ©

in Fort Lauderdale announced his rejec-
tion of a similar appeal.

Ford, convicted of the 1974 killing of
a Fort Lauderdale police officer, had
been scheduled to die in the electric
chair at 7 this morning at Florida State

Prison near Starke.

A three-judge panel in Atlanta or-
dered the indefinite stay about 5 p.m.
to allow Ford time to appeal a decision
by. U.S. District Judge Norman C.
Roettger Jr,

After a 3%-hour hearing in Fort
Lauderdale Monday, Roettger rejected
arguments by Ford's attorneys that
Ford was improperly sentenced and did
not receive adequate counsel at his
1974 trial.

Calling the crime “heinous and rep-
rehensible,” Roettger said Ford’s death
sentence should have been “carried out
a long time ago.”

Ford, 28, was condemned to death
for the execution-style slaying of Fort
Lauderdale police officer Walter Ilyan-
koff. Ford shot Ilyankoff twice while
attempting to rob the Red Lobster Res-
taurant at 5950 N. Federal Highway.
While attempting to escape, Ford shot
Tlyankoff in the ‘head at point-blank
Tange.

Roettger said he was disturbed that
the appeal had dragged on for more
than six years.

“T can’t understand why a case tried
in 1974 doesn’t get reviewed |by the
U.S. District Court] until December
1981,” he said.

Before announcing his ruling, Roett-
ger called Atlanta to tell the appellate
judges how he would rule. The stay
was issued in Atlanta before Roettger
finished his ruling from the bench in
Fort Lauderdale.

Ford’s attorneys praised the appel-
late judges, who had received written
notice of the appeal before Monday's
hearing.

“I'm delighted,” said attorney Rich-
ard Burr, “The 11th Circuit did exactly
what it ought to have done, which is to
give Mr. Ford the right to considered
review ... in a less-pressurized time
schedule than we had the past few

days.”

Burr said the court of appeals proba-
bly will hold a hearing on the case in
Janaury.

Broward State Attorney Michael
Satz, the prosecutor at Ford’s trial, de-
clined to comment on the Atlanta rul-
ing.

He praised Roettger for providing a
“thorough and exhaustive” hearing
and said he agrees with the judge that
death sentence appeals last too long.

Ford’s case already has been to the
Florida Supreme Court twice.'The U.S.

Please turn to EXECUTION / 5BR

ites

FET

L a

\Judge

Judge King known
for good humor,
innovative justice

KING /From 1BR

kups and, if needed, penicillin.

“At least we can fight the public
health aspect,” King declared.

“He tempered the law with jus-
tice, compassion and understand-
ing,” Price said. “He might sentence
a man to six months in jail, but the
fellow would know why he was
going. John talked to people,””

He also brought to the often-grim
courthouse a leprechaun’s sense of
the mischievous.

“Mna” and “Fir” read two signs
that mysteriously appeared on bath-
room doors a few years ago —
Gaelic for men and women.

King, probably the only court-
house denizen familiar with Gaelic,
denied he posted the signs — smil-
ing all the while.

Born in Chicago in 1928, King —
the son of a police lieutenant —
grew up in the shadow of the stock-
yards. He gravitated naturally to
politics. (“Show me an Irishman
who doesn’t,” Price said.)

After graduating from the Loyola
University Law School in 1955,
King went to work as a “‘special
commissioner” in the Chicago
courts in 1960. He continued to
work in city government until he
moved to Florida in 1971.

The next year, King joined the
Broward County state attorney's
office, where he stayed until he was
elected to the county bench in 1977.

King loved to talk about his Chi-
cago experience, Price said.

Daley’s autographed picture hung
on King’s wall. Zz

“He respected the mayor,” Price
said. “He thought of him as an intel-
ligent man who had managed to go
far in politics and was looking after

his own. He was like a great Irish —

chieftain for him.”

King loved Ireland. He owned an
Irish wolfhound, espoused the cause _
of a united Ireland, drank Irish

whisky — reputedly in Irish quanti-

ties until his heart problems became —

severe. He once flew an Irish flag
from the courthouse roof.

And, friends said, King loved to
spin a tale, indulge a fantasy.

Price said sadly that the Louisa
May Alcott Literary Society was
only in the planning stages when
King died. Its sole purpose would
have been to send letters to those
rejected for membership.

Another King enterprise is long-
established — the Good Intentions
Paving Co.

“John had a wonderful wit anda
of spirit..We shall miss him.
sorely,” Price said.

King will be buried in Chicago.

In Broward, visitation will be at
the Fred Hunter Funeral Home,
2401 S. University Dr., near Planta-
tion, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Wednesday. A wake will be held at
the funeral home at 8:45 p.m. Wed-
nesday.

A mass will be said at 8:30 a.m.
Thursday at the funeral home.

Surviving King is his wife of 28
years, Kathleen.

Convicted killer Alvin Bernard Ford in Sheriff’s Department van Monday.

PETE CROSS / Miami Herald Staff

Court delays execution for officer’s killer

EXECUTION / From 1BR

Supreme Court refused to review
the case in 1980,

During the hearing Monday,
Ford’s attorneys argued that de-
fense lawyer Robert Adams had
failed to raise crucial legal ques-
tions that would have helped Ford
at his trial in Broward Circuit
Court.

But Adams denied the charges
during a series of heated exchanges

ministration inspector.

The government-approved services — involv-
ing seven helicopters, a DC3 and two World War
II vintage German planes — were for Red Garga-
ly, a Miramar resident and inspector for 16 yea
in Ate General Aviation Di i

ct OF hamhing of

Pilots give comrade final salute

A group of helicopters and planes flew in
tight, low formations oyer Miramar and Holly-
wood at noon Monday, in a military salute to a
dead pilot who also was a Federal Aviation Ad-

to honor him by scattering his ashes over the
ocean after a military air ceremony, said Jake
ead an FAA official who organized the serv-
ce,

The formation of planes and helicopters drop-
ped smoke bombs, flew in three tight circles and
made an ocean pass to honor Gargaly, a World
War II pilot, Bixby said.

“We thought that this day [the anniversary of

with Burr.

“My only strategy was to save
that young man’s life,” said Adams,
a former chief prosecutor in Brow-
ard.

A Tallahassee psychiatrist called
by the defense testified that Ford
was using potent drugs and suffer-
ing from severe depression in the
months before the shooting.

Dr. Jamal Amin said Ford had
been an “all-American kind of guy”
before leaving his hometown of
Palmetto and moving to the “big
city” of Gainesville. There, Amin
said, Ford lost his small-town
values, discovered drugs and “‘ag-
gressive women” and began hang-
ing out with a bad crowd.

Amin also said that the psychia-
trist who examined Ford before his
trial could not help Ford because
the defendant was black and the
psychiatrist was white.

However, Roettger dismissed the

argument as “discriminatory” and
“racially bigoted.”

Roettger also discounted testimo-
ny by a Broward pathologist that
officer Ilyankoff did not feel any
pain when Ford shot him in the
head.

Abdullah Fatteh, former Broward
deputy medical examiner, said Il-
yankoff was semiconscious after
being shot twice in the stomach and
would not have suffered from the
shot in the head.

Ford, a former prison guard, sat
impassively in the courtroom dur-
ing most of the hearing, restricted

by handcuffs and chains around his
waist.

During one dramatic moment,
however, U.S. marshals removed
the handcuffs so Ford could raise
his hand to take an oath.

When Satz asked Ford if he was
satisfied with his current attorneys,
Ford said he was not qualified to
answer.

Pressed for more information,
Ford grew testy.

“That's all I can say,” he said.
“You can kill me tomorrow or you
can kill me today, I don't know.”

Term Il begins Jan.6
(© Broward Community College

PUBLIC AUCT

ION

“THANK YO!

(APPRECIATION AUCTION

FOR YOUR PATRONAGE”

'ts/classified

‘ F

local

1
LAHASSEE DEMOCRAT/Wednesday, October

7, 1981

n suit reaches Supreme Court

yht.

state from abridging collective bargaining
rights. (7 ‘ a
a March, the 1st District Court of Appeal
agreed, and Tuesday commission lawyer Ver-
non Grizzard asked the Supreme Court to up-
hold the lower appellate court ruling.
“The standard of review applied by the 1st
DCA is proper,” Grizzard told the justices.
He reminded them that previous Supreme
Court rulings had referred to the CO) lective
bargaining amendment as a “basic right.”
Only two sections of the Florida Constitution

— the collective bargaining and free speech .

provisions — prohibit any abridgement, Griz-

zard argued: 3
Tampa lawyer James Blue, a labor attor-

ney hired by the city, did not deny the statute

‘ whatsoever over collective

‘ ‘They did:not irtend the
Legislature to Have no control

bargaining.” 4 7/-
— James Blue, labor attorney

was an abridgement. | '
But Blue argued ithe Legislature had a
right to set guidelines'for bargaining.

“I say when the people,of Florida adopted ’

that amendment the: did not intend to open
up a ‘Pandora’s box’ of bargaining and say
none can be restricted,” Blue told the court.
“They did'not intend the Legislature to have

no control whatsoever over collective bar-
gaining.” a

Allowing pensions to become a bargaining
item, he said, could disrupt the state’s retire-
ment’ system, which covers many city and
county employees. .

Under questioning from Justice James
Adkins, Blue conceded that retirement bene-
fits often are a part of collective bargaining.

Bob Sugarman; an attorney for the Pro-

‘fessional Firefighters of Florida, called a pen-

sion “the most valuable asset a working
person has.”

To deny public unions the right to bargain
for this asset takes away other gains they
my have made at the negotiating table, he
said. :

If a city grants a 5-percent wage increase
to union employees, and then changes its pen-
sion rules without consulting the union, the
change could destroy the wage increase, Sug-
arman said.

“What can be given at: the bargaining
table can be taken away if you can’t bargain
on pensions,” he said,

Sugarman said later that cities, counties
and special taxing districts statewide are
watching the case closely.

Grizzard refused to speculate on how the
court might rule, but Blue said it could go

-either way.

“T think ‘it’s a toss-up,” he-said. “It’s
strictly a constitutional construction issue for
the court.”

‘se ‘—-
City offered

A er a ON
|
|

Recycling center open

Aluminum can be turned in for recycling 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m, Tuesdays through Saturdays this month at
1621-G Capital Circle NE.

Reynolds Aluminum Recycling Co. will pay 25
cents a pound for all-aluminum beverage cans and
other clean household alumunum items, and 20
cents a pound for other properly prepared alumi-
num. Reynolds also pays 15 cents.a pound for alumi-
num castings. All prices are subject to change
without notice.

All-aluminum beverage cans, foil, pie plates,
frozen-food and dinner trays, pudding and meat con-
tainers are all recyclable. Other recyclable items
include aluminum ‘siding, gutters, lawn furniture
tubing, and storm-door and window frames. , All

larger items should be cut to lengths not exceeding
three feet and bundled.

‘Aluminum castings, such as pots and pans,
power lawnmower housings and barbeque grills
also are recyclable.

Group needs volunteers

Apalachee Community Mental Health Services
Inc. needs volunteers for evening and weekend cri-
sis counseling. An organizational meeting for those
interested in becoming volunteers will be held at 6
p.m Thursday at 625, Tennessee St.

Three ask for clemency

Two convicted cop killers and an escapee who
killed an elderly woman will ask Gov. Bob Graham
an the Cabinet to spare them from the electric
chair.

The governor and Cabinet — acting as the Exec-
utive Clemency Board — are scheduled to meet
today at the Capitol.

The state leaders will consider the clemency
appeals of Monroe Holmes, Amos King and Alvin
Ford, all convicted of first-degree murder and sen-
tenced to die at Florida State Prison.

at least three members of the Cabinet.

Holmes, 32, shot and killed a Riviera Beach po-
lice officer in Palm Beach County in 1974. .

Ford, 28, was convicted of killing a Fort Lauder-
dale police officer in the line of duty.

King, 27, escaped from the Tarpon Springs Com-
munity Correctional Center in 1977, raped and
stabbed to death: an elderly woman in a nearby
hone and set the building on fire, state records

ow.

Clemency requires the vote of the governor and '

presérve that green space,” she said.

If the city commission decides to annex the area, an
election could be held as early November. Voters in both
the Winewood area and in the rest of the city would then
have to approve the annexation.

oe ETO aan,
+ ‘M12 Noon

Weekdays & Sat.
Sundays. ...++++

Deaths

Robert Justin Van Buskirk

Robert Justin Van Buskirk, 87, of 4601 Thomasville
Road, died Friday at Tallahassee Memorial Regional
Medical Center after a brief illness.

He was a native of New York and had lived here for six
months. He was a retired U.S. Army colonel and a mem-
ber of the First Church of Christ Scientist in St. Peters-
burg. ‘

Survivors include four daughters, Suzanne Dancey of
Winston-Salem, N.C., Justine Prince of St. Petersburg,
Nanette Dover of Melbourne and Roberta Drake of Talla-
hassee; two. sisters, Maude Douglass of Fripp Island, S.C.,
Thelma Douglass of St. Petersburg; 14 grandchildren; and
10 great-grandchildren.

Culley & Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrange-
ments. . Al

Chaff G. Chason

QUINCY — Chaff G. Chason, 82, of Bristol, died Tues-
day at Blazed Pines Community, of an apparent heart
attack.

The body will lie in state at the First Pentecostal
Holiness Church in Bristol Thursday from 1 p.m. until the
services at 2 p.m, Burial will follow at Lake Mystic Ceme-
tery in Bristol.

~ "He was a native of Liberty County and had lived in
Bristol for 16 years. He was a retired timber cruiser and a
member of the Pentecostal Holiness faith.

Survivors include two daughters, Dale Chason Sapp of
Bristol,and Christine Cross of Tallahassee; a sister, Lessie

| Evans of Quincy; five grandchildren; and five great-grand-

children.
Adams-Sasser Funeral Home of Quincy is in charge of
arrangements. F

Deaths elsewhere

EDMONDO “PAPA” ZACCHINI, the man who in-
vented the “Human Cannonball” act by firing himself out
of an spring-powered cannon, is dead at age 87. He died
Saturday in a Tampa hospital.

Zacchini developed his circus act in Cairo in 1922,
using a crude spring-powered cannon that hurled him 20

feet.

He later developed one using compressed air. The first
time he was shot from one, he broke a leg. He spent his
time in the hospital redesigning the device.

DR. FREDERIK BARRY BANG, who pioneered ap-
plying marine biology to medical research, died in Balti-
more Saturday of a heart attack. He was 64.

“RAINBOW”’

by Saturday Knight Ltd.

Coordinated - Shower Curtail
Towels, Rugs, .
Lucite Accessories

LANGSTON APPLIANCE _ If
Co., INC.
1401 SO. MONROE
TALLAHASSEE

224-8534 $499"|

A Record Player That Plays Movies
On Your TV Model VP2000W

Nowa simple record lets you see what you want, when you want to see tt,
on your own TV, Easier to use than a phonograph. Simple cable connection
allows hook-up to any TV in minutes, Video Discs provide exceptionally
cee plone tall time after time. Plays any disc recordedin the CED
format.

Push-button Convenience

© Visuai Search with Picture
(forward and reverse) — lets
you scan a disc at 16 times
normal speed,
© Rapid Access (forward and
reverse) — lets you speed through
disc to finda favorite scene,

© L.E.D, Playtime Indicator (forward
and reverse) — provides a guide to
elapsed time to help you pinpoint an
exact segment for replay.

‘ Pause Control — lets you stop the

action anywhere to grab a snack or

answer the phone,

i
i
|
|
'Y repay loans”

By JOY. McILWAIN

Democrat staff writer

The old azalea-graced front lawn
of the Tallahassee YMCA no longer
exists,

‘The acre and a half in front of the
Apalachee Parkway facility is a sea of
red mud — occupied hy earth movers
and construction crews building a
Long John Silver’s restaurant.

But’ Bill Francis; director of the
local non-profit organization, is
grateful for the mud. He says it rep-
resents the light at the end of the

AAT faw tha Finanaiallhy nraccad Vv

To pay off loans from 14 banks, the
Y -was forced to sell two parcels of
land fronting the Apalachee Parkway
building. |

The first parcel was sold te
Church’s Fried Chicken, the second to |
a group of private investors, 1

Money from the lot sales was }
trickling in slowly until a couple ot
months ago, when Long John Silver's
bought the second parcel from the
private investors. i

That sale proved to be a windfall |
for the cash-strapped YMCA,

y ‘Democrat ie
esilay) Potter, part of the C Cara.
Survival, a group of anti-nuclear :
bsing through Tallahasseé this:

Bonwide trek to Washington, was

|Riee Reed far specula- 3:
annol

. the final” al analysis I want to pursue
ther goals, other avenues of service: ~*
not © ° “] will not lose interest in Florida’s prob-

- lems nor cease working for solutions. I hope
to be actively involved i in molding Florida’s

future. ,
“ “I would never want to tackle the job —

accident at the newly opened camp
and ended up paralyzed from the
waist ‘down.

Booker’s mother went to court,
asking:the YMCA for damages.
_:."The organization’s lawyers advised

them not to go to trial because of the
bad publicity the case would generate. .
So the Y settled out of court in 1976 for
$100,000 — half to be paid byits insur-

pany.
Francis had thought ‘the money to
‘pay for capital expansion“ could be
‘Taised in a fund drive.
Bat the'Jawsuit, combined with-a

“tion: wound up with debts of almost
$900.0, hes :

Higeigney pleas

Two mén ‘convicted in separate
; Cases of killing policemen asked Gov.
-Bob: Graham .and ‘the Cabinet
» Wednesday to spare their lives.
‘The cases were among three death
tences. that the officials,-acting.as -
ie Execiitive Clemency’ Board, re-
viewed Wednesday. A reduction in
sentence requires the vote of the gov-
-ernor and at least three members of
5 _ Cabinet. The officials took no action.
In the first case, a defense attorney

“for Monroe ’ “Turkey” Holmes ‘of -

‘Palm Beach County said his Client’s
death sentence should be communted
‘on grounds that Holmes- was men-
“tally il... 7

./ > Holmes, 32, was convicted of first-
degree murder after he fired five bul-
lets into officer Meredith Sami

; that’s not a viable alternative.” :

He backed law enforcement, a sound
public educational system and air ‘and water
quality standards.

He praised President Reagan ‘for his
decision'to cut bureaucracy, saying. he de-
serves credit for taking on “so many sacred
cows.”

Francs.
lifted the cotton bales off. our shoul-
ders .. . after five years of strug-
gling.”

Despite the lawsuit, the YMCA
camp still operates today much the
same way it did in 1975, Francis said.

-He’s aware that another accident
could make the YMCA vulnerable to
another lawsuit, but said restricting
programs to avoid that possibility
would not serve the community well.

“The only way to not make a mis-

> take is to not do anything,” Francis

said. “We could have closed ‘down, but

. Plans for the northside recreation

“facility are still just plans, Francis

said. But he said he hopes it will bea
reality soon.

Runek of the Riviera Beach Police

_ Department in 1974. Runck had been

called to the scene to investigate a
domestic dispute and arrested
Holmes for trespassing.

Before the officer could put
Holmes into a police cruiser, Holmes

< wrestled with the: policeman and

grabbed his service revolver. The of-
‘ticer was shot in the head, neck, arm
and lower back.

“He (Holmes) was acutely psy-
chotic at the time of the attack,” said
Craig Barnard, an aeetee public
defender from West P: .

Barnard didn’t deny ae Holmes
shot and killed the policeman...

Prosecutor Paul Moyle, an assis-
tant state attorney from Palm Beach
County, noted that Holmes’ death

(Please see CLEMENCY, page 2m),

T ietr HKe somebody iia ~~~

~and it is a job — of getting elected unless I
was absolutely sure that’s what I really want
todo most in life,” Reed said, adding he

t, said * “believed his reasoning to be sound. 3

‘ing “ He said; too, he looks “forward to work-
ing with men and women who hold similar
‘views and who. are prepared to face up to
issues squarely and rationally.”
Reed painted a picture of himself as a
moderate and a fiscal conservative who be- ~
lieves in a-newcomer tax to help foot the

; burden of government, gun control, con-

trolled Rov impact fees and acs tax.

8. Claude: Kirk, ‘a ‘Repub-
a Democrat

But at the same time, he said, “I believe
the president is in deep economic difficulty.
The economy is in perilous condition. If. in-
terest rates don’t quickly come down, busi-
nesses large and small will fold up.

“Economies win elections. People vote
their pocketbooks,” he said, reminding. that
Congress has elections coming up in
months.

Reed said he has carefully consider
running for governor twice.

(Please see REED, page 2D):

ahassee Bemarrat

Clemency

(Continued from page 1D)
sentence has been upheld by the Florida Su-
preme Court and the U.S, Supreme Court has
refused to hear thecase.

“In the other case involving the shooting of a
policeman, Broward County State Attorney Mi-
chael Satz called the murder an “illegal execu-
tion.” Pets i

. Satz saidthere were.no mitigating circum-
stances in the 1974 killing of Fort Lauderdale
policeman Dimitri Walter Tiyankoff by Death
Row inmate Alvin Ford. °- .

“T¢ there was ever a case that smacked of an
illegal execution, it’s this one,” Satz said... -

Ford shot Ilyankoff twice while trying to flee
a Red Lobster restaurant after an attempted
robbery. Ford then shot Ilyankoff a third time.
An autopsy report said either the first shots or
the third shot would have killed the man.

Florida State University criminology pro-
fessor Laurin Wollan Jr. said Ford, now 28 and
formerly a guard at Union Correctional Institu-
tion, shot Iyankoff the third. time because he
thought the policeman was reaching for a.gun,

though the man.was later found to be unarmed.
Wollan said Ford had become a model pris-
oner, and has filed complaints that have up-
graded treatment of inmates.
“alvin Ford is one of those rare prisoners
who has made Death Row a more civil and de-
cent place than it would otherwise have been.”

| CARBMEAT

EVERYTHING

DEPENDS
ON

AVAILABILITY

POTEETS SEAFOOD SALES

We will have « truckload sale at Haverty's Fufniture Parking.Lot, Thomasville Road, this
week, THURS,, FRI. and SAT. 11-6, NOTICE: 50¢ OFF PER LB, ON SHRIMP WITH AD.
Folks, our quality is excellent, our prices. are the lowest in town. Our truck is refrigerated

- for your protection, Market located on Hwy. 319 before Crawfordville, 1-926-8532, No

‘one beats our prices, and above all, our freshness, = s

The other clemency case involved Amos '
King, a Pinellas County man convicted of killing
and raping an elderly woman in'1977, :

A court-appointed defense lawyer represent-
ing King said the murder case against his client
was weak and based only on circumstantial evi-

«dence. } .

However, Assistant State Attorney Pau
Meissner described King as a “mean” person
who understood his criminal actions. .

King, 27, escaped from the Tarpon.Springs '
Community Correctional Center, a minimum-
security jail in Pinellas County, and stabbed a
woman in the neighborhood, the prosecutor said.

After! the victim was stabbed, beaten and
raped, King set her house on fire, Meissner said.

4 . a

Reed

mallards

WITH ALOE:

8-02.

At last, a product designed to stimulate, nourish,
feed and rejuvenate the hair and scalp. Because,
Rejuvenation is all natural ingredients amalga-
mated with super refined aloe, itis safe on all kinds

of hair. Mallard Rejuvenation was tested on El

j
4
4

2 COnvVic

: TALLAHASSEE: (AP) —~ Two men

al convicted in Separate caseg of killing
yy policemen asked Goy, Bob Graham

8 and the Cabinet Yesterday to Spare
a their lives,

E
&
=
S
e
5
28
S
8
S
Z
g
s
5
&

: members
* The officials took no action,
Tn the first Case, a defense attorney

or Monroe “Turkey” Holmes of
Palm Beach County said his client’s
death. sentence should he commuted
ou Brounds that f Tolmes was Mentally
il,

ame

to go up

FORT LAUDERDALE (AP)
The Broward County Commission,

* berated bya shouting crowd of
anti-tax crusaders, unanimously
Passed a 198)-g9 operating budget
early yesterday, boosting tax bills
by up to 49 percent,

Ina Seven-hour harangue with
focal Tesidents,. the board adopted
by 27-0 vote the $697 million oper-

ating budget for fiscal year
j 1981-89, i

Broward tax bills

Berated commissioners Pass budget

; The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Thursiy

ted of killing Police officers ask for ¢]

Holmes, 32, wag Convicted-of first. fender, from West Palm Beach, Walter lyankoft by Death Row in-
‘degree murder after he fired four

@ four Barnard didn’t deny that Holmes mate Alvin Ford,
bullets into Officer Meredith Stanle: t and killed t li i :
Runck of the Riviera Beach Police sae hiled the ores

rate was ever a case that

Prosecutor Pay Moyle, an assis. Smacked of an illegal execution, its

epartment in 1974, Runek bed been tant state attorney from Pain Beach — this one,” Satz Said. : x

domestic dispute and are a aims, bee n uphenr es death rida ‘yyy eet, vankotr Ree white ie ae he
ye at tence has been uphel € Blorida ‘trying to escape from a Red Lobster numa

Holmes for trespassing. Supreme Court, and the 8. Supreme 7 i,

Vi
restaurant afier an attempted rob. — those rare prisoners
Before the officer could put Court has refused to hear the case, bery. Ford then E

Holmes into a police cruiser, Holmes Tn the ot i i

id Ford hi
model prisoner and hi

. me. An autopsy report said that ei- place than it would
shooting ofa policeman, Broward ther the first sh or the thir Would been,
8rabbed his Service revolver, The of- County State Attorney Michael Satz have killed the man,
ficer was shot in the head, neck, arm called the murder an “egal execy-
tion.”

, &Y professor Lanrin Wollan Jr. said convictea of killing and
y Satz said there were no migating Ford, now 28 and formerly a guard at derly woman in 197 7.
ie at the time Of the attacl i,” said circumstances jn the 1974 killing Of Union Correctional Institution, shot A court-appointed defense attorner
Craig Barnard, an assistant public de. Fort Lauderdale Policeman Dimitri Tlyankoft the third time because he Tepresenting King. said the murder

by 40%

yelled for more budget cuts,

One broperty Owner, lamentin,
a tax bill that he said was nearly

“You'll make Broward County
into a desert,” the Speaker predict.
ed.

millage

Following revisions, the fina}
lag figure for county property
is $5.85 ber $1,000 of as.
roperty value,

The commission had initiany
Ught $7.24 for s

‘Y $1,090 in ase
re, hat ¢

Two men
of killing
Graham
to spare

Holmes, 32, was convicted of first-
‘degree murder after he fired four
bullets into Officer Meredith Stanley
Runck of the Riviera Beach Police
Department in 1974. Runck had been
called to the scene to investigate a
domestic dispute and arrested
Holmes for trespassing,

Before the officer could put
Holmes into a’ police cruiser, Holmes
wrestled with the policeman and
grabbed his service revolver, 'The of-
ficer was shot in the head, neck, arm
and lower back. *,

“ “He [Holmes] wasiacutely sychot-
ic at the time of the attacl k,” said
Craig Barnard, an assistant public de-

or and at
Cabinet.

attorney
Imes of
: client's
mmuted
mentally

fender/from West Palm Beach.
Barnard didn’t deny that Holmes,
shot and killed the policeman.
Prosecutor Paul Moyle, an assis-
tant state attorney from Palm Beach
County, noted that Holmes’ death sen-
tence has been upheld by the Florida
Supreme Court, and the U.S, Supreme
Court has refused to hear the case.
In the other case involving. the
shooting of a policeman, Broward
County State Attorney Michael Satz
called the murder an’ “illegal execu-
tion.” *
Satz said there were no mitigating
circumstances in the 1974 killing of
Fort Lauderdale policeman Dimitri

"The Florida Times-Union, Jacks

icted of killing police office

Walter Hyankott by Death Row in-
mate Alvin Ford.

“If there was ever a case that
smacked of an illegal execution, it’s
this one,” Satz said.

Ford shot Ilyankoff twice while
trying to escape from a Red Lobster
restaurant after an attempted rob-
bery. Ford then shot Ilyankoff a third
time. An autopsy report said that ei-
ther the first shot or the third would
have killed the man.

Florida State University criminolo-
gy professor Laurin.Wollan Jr, said
Ford, now 28 and formerly a guard at
Union Correctional Institution, shot
llyankoff the third time because he

thought the policeman was reaching
for a gun, though the officer was later
found to be unarmed.

Wollan said Ford had become a
model prisoner and has filed com-
plaints that have upgraded treatment
of inmates. “Alvin Ford is one of
those rare prisoners who has made
Death Row a more civil and decent
place than it would otherwise have
been.” :

The other clemency case involved
Amos King, a Pinellas County man
convicted of killing and raping an el-
derly woman in 1977,

A court-appointed defense attorney
representing King said the murder

“d ‘tax bills
ip by 40%

missioners pass budget

(AP) - yelled for more budget cuts,
nission, .
owd of One property owner, lamenting
mously — @ tax bill that he said was nearly
budget three times higher than in 1980;
ax bills Said the board’s action would drive
many taxpayers out of the county.
wi “You'll make Broward County
Hoban into a desert,” the speaker predici-
noper-, ed.
l year Following revisions, the final
mpillage figure for county property
heriffis OWners is $5.85 per $1,000 of as-
ng the _ Sessed property value.
uesday The commission had initially
NO WIC sought $7.24 for every $1,000 in as-
chants, ° sessed property value, but that fig-
ure was battered down afler two
ubject: other stormy meetings in the past

id tax. WO weeks,

cnville, Thursday, October 8, 1981

-easily won their contests for party

. District 108 post to run £:

sk for clemency.

case against his client was weak and

based ‘only on circumstantial evi-
dence.

However, Assistant State Attorney
Paul Meissner described King as a
mean person who understood his
criminal actions,

King, 27, escaped from the Tarpon
Springs Community Correctional
Center, a minimum-security jail in

~ Pinellas County, and stabbed a wom-

an who lived in the neighborhood, the
prosecutor said.

After the victim was stabbed. beat-
en and raped, King set her house on
fire, Meissner said,

Primary wins
go to Gersten
amd Skidell

MIAMI (AP) — Forr:
Joe Gersten and Phit

rv state Rep.
kidell have

nominations to fill an empty

Senate seat.
Republican public.

Ellis

Gov. Bob Graham o1
cial election after She:
tired from his District ne:
and Gersten abandoned. his

Seat.
__ Unofficial results in
ie pr

ve BAS

Florida

"61% chance of rain today.

MOSTLY CLOUDY
Showers or thunderstorms
likely tonight. Highs in the
mid 70s and lows near 50. }

THURSDA ys NOVEMBER 5, 1981

SERVING TALLAHASSEE FOR 69 YEARS

VOL. 69, NO. 48

Graham signs two more death. warrants

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Gov. Bob Graham signed his 20th and 21st death
warrants yesterday, ordering the executions of
convicted killers Amos Lee King Jr.. of Pinellas
County and Alvin Bernard Ford of Gainesville.

State Prison Superintendent C.E. Strickland set
the double executions for Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 7 a.m.
and moved the two men from Death Row to
holding cells a few feet from the room holding the
electric. chair.

King, 27, was convicted of the March 18, 1977
murder of Natalie A. Brady in Tarpon Springs
while he was on a prison work-release program:
Ford, 28, was sentenced in’ the shooting death of
Fort Lauderdale policeman Dmitri Walter

Tlyankoff during an attempted restaurant robbery
July 21, 1974,

‘The warrants were signed just two days after the
U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb the
death sentences of 123 of the 160 inmates. now on
Florida’s Death Row.

Attorneys for King and Ford, who ‘tried
unsuccessfully to persuade Graham and the
Clemency Board in October to reduce the sentences
to life in prison,:are expected to turn individually
now to the courts for stays to allow time for further
legal arguments to spare the lives of the men..

A motion to yacate King’s sentence is already

* pending in Pinellas Circuit Court.

In 18 of the 19 casés in which death warrants

EDITOR’S NOTE: The growing legal

were previously signed, the’ executions have been
stayed and the cases are still pending in the courts.
John Spenkelink was executed May 25, 1979.

Graham gave no reason for denying clemency,
sending word through his assistant general counsel
‘that ‘‘The governor has determined that there is no
basis to alter the court-imposed sentence in either
the King or Ford case.”

Attorneys for: Ford contend the killing of the
policeman ‘was not the specially heinous type
murder required by Florida law to trigger the death

penalty. They also say Ford was afraid to give all

the facts of his case to his trial attorney because the
attorney was a former FBI agent and the son.of.a

- policeman,

Go Bob Graham
Illegal aliens swell ranks of
‘Moonies’ as problems mount

Naturalization Service (INS), as many as

problems of: the Rev. Sun Myang | Moon, t how ~ 2,000 church members — popularly know.as
“Moonies”’ — are illesal aliens in the. United

Newsweek, Vol. XCVIII, No. 20 (November 16, 1981), pp. 102-103

JUSTICE . - major law firm in Florida, and such high-

powered organizations as the NAACP Le-
The Mistress of De

1 ei Team Defense Project Inc. in Atlanta can
ay. > - “handle only a fraction of the appeals. So
- se phe tt : =o | Holdman must rely on local lawyers who
or his birthday last May 25, Florida house on Criminal Justice works know how to place stumbling blocks in the
Attorney General Jim Smith receiveda — tionsreforms—with fivestaffersandabudg- ” executioner’s path. They, in turn, help her
cake decorated with eighteen black, licorice et of $60,000—but ‘what it does most” trainnovices who havenever learned how to
crosses, one for each death warrant out-' strenuouslyis try to keep people alive. “The * try acase three times, “Youcan’tgiveanew
standing in the state. Scharlette Holdman death penalty has to be resisted becatiseit’s” attorney’ a case by himself because that
baked it. Last month, as Gov. Bob Graham so wrong,” says Holdman. “It’s the tip ofa” would belikekilling theclient,” shesays.
spoke to a human-rights conference, dem- system that makes throwaway people: ‘The volunteer lawyers usually enter a
onstratorsstood silently wearingexecution- StumblingBlocks: Holdman can doany-~ case after a defendant has been convicted
ers’ hoods. Scharlette Holdman sewed thingforacondemnedinmateexcept defend” and lost his basic appeals. At that point, the
them. When inmates on the nation’s largest’ him in court, because sheis not an atfomey.._ governor can schedule a clemency hearing,
death row need lawyers to spin webs of She tries to inject some minimal hope into ._ a preliminary step toward signing a death
writs, motions and pleas that willkeep them _ the bleak conditions on death row, 1 ‘warrant, If the governor decides against

_ gal Defense Fund, Inc.; in New York and

interminably in the courts and out of the securing medication for James = 4385: - ‘commutation and schedules an
electric chair, Scharlette Holdman finds McCray, an epileptic “who a {ppeal execution, the lawyers begin
. them. Part earnest reformer, part pie-in- killeda 16-year-old girl, orcon- E what they call a collateral at-
the-face yippie, she has become the mirror _ vincing Alvin Ford, a cop kill tack. “The technical legal stuff
image of Dickens’s Madame Defarge, Flor- er, not to give up his fight. is very difficult,” says Susan
ida’s own Mistress of Delay. , Was just going to forget about’ Cary of Gainesville, who has

Specialists in delay such as 34-year-old all the rest of my appeals be- worked with fifteen death-row

Holdman have triggered the latest contro- causeI wasjust so tired of being: clients. “It’s an area most at-
versy over the death penalty: why does it in prison,” Ford says. “She = “torneys don’t want to know.
take so long between finding a killer guilty -showed me I was worth more : ‘You can’t make a living at it.”
and throwing the switch? Since capital pun- than that.” Holdman spends ‘Usually the lawyers argue that
ishment was legalized again in 1976, four more time recruiting volunteer the defendant was inadequate-
men have been executed, but there are 891 lawyers to save the lives of kill- ly represented at trial. They
convicts on American death rows, 157 in ° ers. It’s not easy. She has been, can make these appeals in two
Floridaalone. Holdman’s Florida Clearing- turned aside by a State courts and, starting fresh,

through the Federal system up to
the Supremé Court. “28-5 * now expected to schedtile more
The toll on the Volunteer Jaw- os BB eet Z executions—eight clemency peti-
yers is considerable. One law pro-: = Eee ions are on his desk—and con-
fessor who favors the death penal- . . ‘timie pushing the eighteen cases
ty for some crimes was enlistéd by: #4. in which death warrants have al-
Holdman last spring torepresenta ‘eady been signed..° = T=
. young mar who had beeii a prison Te By Electric Chairs: Although she-
guard before he had become a _ -: feels as if she is always pushing a
drug addict; during ‘a robbery, he i rock uphill, Holdman has no in-
killeda policeman. Thelawyer has 2 tention ofletting go. A native Ten-
lost 19 pounds, has trouble sleep- H : 2 ** nessean, the daughter ofa success-
ing and finds himself emotional- 3 Sh £ ful businessman, she was a
ly exhausted. Key West lawyers 2 : civil-rights worker in the *60s,
June Rice and husband Steve Stitt Z married a college professor and
are still paying the costs of win- “lived in various parts of the coun-
ning a court stay last year for Ray 3 try until she decided that only
Meeks, a double murderer, only ee Southerners could be trusted to
38 hours before his scheduled ex- make a commitment to the South.
ecution. “We've spent thousands = ‘Now she wears hand-me-down
of hours on the case, on trans- clothes, drives a 1965 car and
portation, on'someonetotake care _ ( se 4 eoreae raises her two: children on the
of our children, and we’ve never : Peet $200-a-week salary she allows
been paid anything at all,” says Rice. urged the Federal courts to pu herself. She used to bring home relatives of
No matter how dedicated the lawyers, ° at the head of their dockets and have tried _ death-row inmates but stopped when she
their maneuvers do not please state officials,” to pressure’ state judges by making slow found her children drawing pictures of elec-

being thwarted. “After the birthday-cake. Federal judges have not been moved. But . the community enmity that her tactics in-
episode, I pretty much decided not to have the dam may soon ‘break. Last week the spire. “Sometimes I wonder if [’ve gone too
anything to do with that group,” says Attor-_ U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a chal--. far,” Holdman says. “I reanalyze it all the
ney General Smith. “They disregard any- lenge to a Florida practice under. which - time. I’m glad I always end up thinking
body else’s human feelings, which Ihappen’ judges may review defendants’ psycholo; what I’m doing is right.” .

to have.” Tactically, state authorities have cal wi haring them with de-’-’ ARICPRESS with HOLLY MORRIS in Tallahasise

who believe that the will of the people is. justice a hot political issue. Thus far, most _ tric chairs. She is, however, untroubled by -

oo,
# CLIPPING SERVICE
P.O, BOX 10278
TAMPA, FLORIDA 33679
News-Chief
PM 18,000 $ 20,000
Winter Haven

Frusum fi. Woblam
DEC-6 -81

By MATT’BOKOR °

Associated Press a en oe
A convicted killer scheduled to die in the electric chair at

the Florida State Prison at Starke.on Tuesday has asked a fed-

eral judge in Fort Lauderdale to review his case. Meanwhile,

another convicted murderer ‘was granted a reprieve by a fed-

eral judge in Tampa.

On Friday, Amos Lee King Jr. was spared indefinitely from
the death chair under an order by U.S. District Judge William
Castagna. Castagna’s ruling came after the Florida Supreme
Court unanimously, denied the stay sought by King.

Alvin Bernard Ford filed his appeal with a federal judge in
Fort Lauderdale Friday, as the Florida Supreme Court turned
down kis request for a stay of-execution. ~

U.S. District Judge Norman Roettger Jr. heard an hour of
arguments from Ford’s lawyer and the state late Friday.
Roettger refused to order a stay of Ford’s execution, but sched-
uled a hearing on the case for this afternoon.

The judge said he will decide whether :to block Ford’s ex-
ecution after hearing more legal arguments and reading docu-
ments, ‘

Both men had told the Supreme Court they weren’t afforded
adequate legal help at their trial. King, 27, was sentenced to

Two condemned ask for federal review

death in 1977 for the rape and murder ot an elderly Tarpon
Springs woman.

InFord*scase-the justices said, the killer failed to show
serious deficiencies ofthe legal assistance. In oral arguments
ear the justices fired humerous questions at his attorney.

Laurin A. Wollan, a Florida State. University law professor,

told the justices that the outcome of Ford’s sentencing phase
might have been different with better legal help during his
trial‘for the 1974. murder of a Fort Lauderdale police officer.
Justice Overton told Wollan that appeals based on the
trial attorneys’ competence have been filed in every case
where death warrant has been signed. And Gov. Bob Graham
has signed 22 of them. .

“My point is the issue of effective assistance of counsel...is
becoming an automatic issue for review,” Overton said.

Ford and his accomplices robbed a Fort Lauderdale restau-
rant, and the responding officer, Dmitri Ilyankoff, was shot
twice. Ford tried to flee in the wounded officer's cruiser,. but
didn’t have the keys. .

Ford returned to the scene, took the struggling policeman’s .

keys then shot him in the head and fled, according to case
es, ‘

“Tf that’s not an execution, what is it?” Justice James Al-

derman asked. f

Ford stay.
refused
by court.

Another execution
halted indefinitely

Associated Press

The Florida Supreme Court last
night, refused to block the Tuesday
execution of one man convicted in a

* slaying after a fedetal judge in Tam-

pa had granted a reprieve to another
man found g guilty of murder who also
was to die in the electric chair next
week.

The state high court heard argu-
ments yesterday morning in the case
of Alvin Bernard Ford, 28, and eight
hours later unanimously turned down
his request.

Amos Lee King Jr. was spared in-
definitely from the death chair at
Starke under an order by U.S. Dis-
trict Judge William Castagna. The
state Supreme Court had. mnanimous-
iden ee the stay he had sought Wed-

pet lawyer appealed his case to
‘ federal court in Fort Latiderdale. U:S.
District Judge Norman Roettger Jr.
heard an hour of arguments from
Ford’s lawyer and the state late yes-
terday. Roettger refused to order a
stay of Ford’s execution, but sched-
uled a hearing on the case for this af-
ternoon,

The judge said he will decide
whether to block Ford’s execution af-
ter hearing more legal arguments
and reading documents.

Both men told the Supreme Court
they were not afforded adequate le-
gal help at their trial. King, 27, was
sentenced to death in 1977 in the rape
and murder of an elderly Tarpon
Springs woman.

In Ford’s case, the justices said,
the killer failed to show serious defi-
ciencies of the legal assistance. In
oral arguments earlier, the justices
fired numerous questions at his attor-
ney.

Laurin A. Wollan, a Florida State
University law professor, told the jus-
tices that the outcome of Ford's Sen-
fencing phase might had been differ-
ent with better legal help during bis
trial in the 1974 murder of a ‘ort
Lauderdale police officer.

Justice Ben Overton told Wollan
that appeals based on the trial attor-
neys’ competence have been filed in
every ca where a death warrant
has been signed. And Gov. Bob Gra-
ham has signed 22 of them. .

“My point is the issue of effective
assistance of counsel.. . . is becoming
‘an automatic issue for review,” Over- -
ton said.

s neees Be) took toe with vcr

’s argument over the prosecutor's

deseipion of the crime as an execu-
jon. ‘

Ford and his accomplices robbed a
Fort Lauderdale restaurant, and the

the struggling policeman’s keys, then
shot him in the head and fled, ‘accord-
ing to case files.

“tf that’s not an execution, what is
it?” Justice James Alderman

Wollan replied that the shooting
could have been the result of panic or
terror of apprehension.

Wollan also ed that the trial
Jawyer failed to levelop factors that
might have led the jury to recom:
mend a life prison sentence instead of
death.

‘Some of the factors included Ford’s
age of 20 when he committed the
crime, his good behavior ‘until then
and psychological problems, Wollan

said.

In King’s case, Baya Harrison Im
pa eins for a slay claiming King’s
constitutional rij ‘were violated
during his 1977 trial, basing the chal-
lenge on the argument that King was
denied adequate help from his. attor-
ney during trial and sentencing.

But Assistant Attorney General Mi-
chael Kotler insisted that the petition
was frivolous and asked the judge to
Jet the death sentence be carried out.

Metadata

Containers:: Box 1 (4-Alvin Ford Biographical), Folder 4
Resource Type:: Document
Rights:: In Copyright
Date Uploaded:: November 11, 2022

Using these materials

Access:: The archives are open to the public and anyone is welcome to visit and view the collections.

Collection restrictions:: Access to this record group is unrestricted.
Collection terms of access:: The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of copyright. Whenever possible, the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives will provide information about copyright owners and other restrictions, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the researcher. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the Head of Special Collections and Archives.