DATE=  10/3/97

TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT

NUMBER=2-220810

TITLE=UNABOMBER/JURY (L)

BYLINE=GREG FLAKUS/LA

DATELINE=LA

CONTENT=

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INTRO:    A FEDERAL JUDGE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA HAS DECIDED

THAT THE NAMES OF JURORS IN THE UNABOMBER TRIAL SHOULD BE KEPT

SECRET.  AS V-O-A'S GREG FLAKUS REPORTS FROM LOS ANGELES,

ATTORNEYS ON BOTH SIDES ARE ALREADY ARGUING OVER THE ISSUE OF THE

DEATH PENALTY.







TEXT:    UNDER THE ORDER ISSUED BY U-S DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

GARLAND BURRELL, THE JUROR NAMES, ADDRESSES, PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT

AND NAMES OF SPOUSES WILL BE KEPT SECRET UNTIL AFTER THE TRIAL IS

OVER.  JUDGE BURRELL REJECTED ARGUMENTS FROM NEWS ORGANIZATIONS

THAT AN OPEN, PUBLIC TRIAL REQUIRES THAT THE IDENTITY OF ALL

PARTICIPANTS BE KNOWN.  THE JUDGE CITED OTHER HIGH-PROFILE CASES

IN WHICH JURORS WERE GRANTED SIMILAR PROTECTION.



THE ACCUSED UNABOMBER, THEODORE KACZYNSKI, IS A HARVARD-EDUCATED

MATHEMATICIAN WHO WAS ARRESTED BY FBI AGENTS IN APRIL OF LAST

YEAR AT A REMOTE CABIN IN MONTANA.  HE IS CHARGED WITH TEN FELONY

COUNTS RELATED TO TWO FATAL BOMBINGS IN SACRAMENTO AS WELL AS

SOME OTHER BLASTS IN WHICH PEOPLE WERE INJURED.



THE TRIAL IS NOT SET TO BEGIN UNTIL NOVEMBER 12, BUT MR

KACZYNSKI'S ATTORNEYS HAVE ALREADY FILED PAPERS CHALLENGING THE

DEATH PENALTY AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.  IN A COUNTER MOTION,

PROSECUTORS ON FRIDAY FILED PAPERS ARGUING THAT THE DEATH PENALTY

IS NOT ONLY JUSTIFIED BY THE BRUTAL NATURE OF THE CRIMES

COMMITTED, BUT BY THE THREAT MR KACZYNSKI COULD POSE TO SOCIETY

IF ALLOWED TO LIVE-- EVEN IN PRISON.  PROSECUTORS CITED THE CASE

OF A BOMBING SUSPECT WHO MANAGED TO ASSEMBLE BOMBS AND SEND THEM

TO PEOPLE WHILE HE WAS BEING HELD IN A STATE PRISON.



MR KACZYNSKI HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY.  PROSECUTORS, HOWEVER, HAVE

A MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE TO LINK HIM TO VARIOUS BOMBINGS THAT BEGAN

IN 1978.  THE BOMBS WERE SENT THROUGH THE MAIL IN PACKAGES AND

THE TARGETS WERE GENERALLY PEOPLE INVOLVED IN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

STUDIES.  (SIGNED).







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03-Oct-97 8:07 PM EDT (0007 UTC)

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Source: Voice of America

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