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nCOURTS: Orange County’s worst mass killer will not be forced to submit a deposition in his upcoming hearing to determine if he is to be released from Patton State Hospital By Marlayna Slaughterbeck Daily Titan Staff Writer
An Orange County Superior Court judge‑ruled last Friday that Edward Allaway would not be forced to submit to a deposition or answer the prosecution’s questions under oath in his upcoming sanity restoration hearing. Allaway, notorious for commit‑ ting the worst act of violence in Orange County’s history, was found not guilty by reason of insanity after killing seven people and seriously injuring two more with a .22 rifle in the basement of Cal State Fullerton’s
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library on July 12, 1976. Allaway has spent the past 25 years in state mental hospitals and is now seeking release from Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino County. Unsuccessful in his three previ‑ ous requests for freedom, he now has the support of state hospital doc‑ tors, making his chances for release more likely than ever. The possibility of the mass killer’s release has Deputy District Attorney Dan Wagner, along with victims’ relatives and 3rd District County Supervisor Todd Spitzer, fighting to block it.
The case had lawyers on both sides breaking with conventional strategy. While the prosecution pushed to have the case ruled civil in nature, Allaway’s attorney, Deputy Public Defender John F.F. Bovee, requested that the judge deem it a criminal proceeding to prevent the prosecu‑ tion from deposing his client and examining him with its own handpicked expert. Noting the role reversal, Superior Court Judge Frank F. Fasel acknowl‑ edged the unlikely circumstances last Friday in a crowded courtroom. “I can appreciate that both law‑
yers probably feel like‑fish out of water,” Fasel said. The judge then ruled that despite legitimate arguments from both sides, Allaway’s bid for freedom falls neither under civil, nor crimi‑ nal guidelines, but rather that it is a special proceeding. While the judge denied the prose‑ cution the right to interview Allaway, Fasel stopped short of refusing the district attorney’s office the right to choose a specialist to examine the mass killer. Bovee raised objections to both
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Two arrested for grand theft
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nCRIME: Campus police recovered more than $32,000 in computer equipment from an abandoned rental van in Fullervale Lot
nCRIME: After an argument over fidelity, police charge suspect with robbery and vandalism in Cypress Hall
By Amy Rottier
Daily Titan Staff Writer
By Amy Rottier
Daily Titan Staff Writer A male suspect was arrested last Friday at Cypress Hall for robbery and vandalism at about 12:28 p.m. Public Safety responded to a call from the victim’s roommate at about 11:30 a.m., police said. The victim, a female resident of Cypress Hall reportedly told police that she was arguing with her boy‑ friend about an affair he was having with another woman. The victim had received a phone call earlier in the day by a female stating that she was sleeping with the victim’s boyfriend, a police report said. The victim also reportedly told police that her boyfriend had given her a sexually transmitted disease. The victim told her boyfriend to leave her dorm but he refused. The boyfriend began trashing the victim’s room by throwing her things on the floor. He then went to her desk and threw the victim’s computer keyboard on the floor causing a dent at the base of the keyboard, the report said. “I did that because I was mad,” the suspect said when questioned by police. “I did that instead of hitting her because I know that’s wrong.” After thrashing the victim’s room, the victim reportedly told police that her boyfriend demanded that she repay him for the food he bought her
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Children paint a mural at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books last weekend.
Two suspects were arrested for the theft of approximately $33,000 worth of computer equipment from a white van in the Fullervale Lot last Thursday. During a routine check of the parking lot in the early afternoon, Corporal Bob Botzheim noticed a suspicious-looking gray van driving toward him, according to his report. The front and rear license plates of the van were covered by dark blue “Nascar Racing” plastic plates. Botzheim noticed the driver’s side window was smashed out of a white Ford van that was parked in a stall west of where the gray van had been parked. Glass covered the ground around the driver’s side and blood was reportedly found on the driver’s seat and the interior of the white van. After hearing crunching noises from people walking over glass, two female witnesses reportedly saw four males leave the white van, jump into the gray van and drive off. The women flagged down Botzheim and told him that the men in the gray van broke into the white van, the report said. Botzheim reportedly turned his police car around and followed the gray van as it drove northbound on Langsdorf Drive and then west‑ bound on Nutwood Avenue. The gray van was stuck at a red traffic light. When the driver of the gray van noticed the police car behind him he allegedly accelerated, trying to ram the van through the
traffic. Not having enough room to get through, the gray van allegedly backed up and hit a blue Toyota pickup truck. The driver of the gray van and another suspect reportedly got out of the van on the driver’s side and ran northbound toward the east parking lot at the Marriott. Two other suspects reportedly got out of the passenger’s side of the van and ran. Botzheim radioed in the pursuit and followed two of the suspects to the northeast loading dock of the Marriott in his car and then contin‑ ued the pursuit on foot, he reported. One suspect was found in Lot E pretending to be busy removing the election signs from the ground, police said. Botzheim ordered the first sus‑ pect to drop the signs and arrested him. A second suspect was reportedly caught when police were notified by hotel security that a man was hiding in the generator shed at the west side of the loading dock. Police found and arrested a man who matched the description of the driver of the gray van lying under metal piping in the shed, the report said. When the driver of the white van returned, he told police that he was a driver for a company and had picked up a shipment of computer parts in the City of Industry. After looking over invoices and shipping records, police found $32,560.00 in equipment missing. Twenty Seagate hard drives and five
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NASCAR comes to nRACING: Fans turn out by the thousands to see the NAPA Auto Parts 500 at the California Speedway in Fontana last weekend By Darla Priest
Daily Titan Asst. News Editor On what would have been the 50th birthday of the late Dale Earnhardt, fans and drivers continued to cel‑ ebrate the legend. Flags commemo‑ rating the “Intimidator” flew on and off the racetrack. Homemade happy birthday No. 3 Banners were hung on fences and on the sides of motor homes. NASCAR fan Chris Krause stood next to a “We Miss You Dale” banner in the infield and asked any‑ one passing by to sign it. Krause plans to send the banner to the Earnhardt family after it is com‑ pletely filled with signatures. “This is my way of saying goodbye,” Krause said. Winston Cup winner Rusty Wallace and his Miller Lite Team
Penske won the NAPA Auto Parts 500 at the California Speedway in Fontana last Sunday. Wallace flew Earnhardt’s No. 3 flag on his victory lap in memory of his close friend. “I always wanted to do something for Dale when he lost his life ... for me to win on his birthday, that was very special,” Wallace said. “That was for Dale and Teresa and the whole Earnhardt family.” Wallace dominated the second half of the race, leading 95 of the 250 laps raced, the most of all drivers. This marked the 24th victory in his career of 368 super-speedway races. “Those last 150 laps, I guess, we were out front most of the time,” Wallace said at a press conference after the race. “We had some great pit stops and I made some air-pressure
changes that really woke the car up. Jeff Gordon finished second, with Dale Earnhardt Jr. finishing in third place. Gordon won the California 500 in 1997 and 1999, and finished fourth in 1998. Earnhardt Jr. said it was pretty cool racing on his dad’s birthday because they finished strong, even if it’s still emotional. “We had terrible luck this week. It was a great car, but we did not have enough luck to get it up there,” Earnhardt Jr. said. On a morning practice lap, Earnhardt Jr. escaped injury after crashing into the wall in Turn 2. He later blew up an engine due to an oil filter being installed backwards. This spring’s NASCAR weekend
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Rusty Wallace dedicated his win to Dale Earnhardt last Sunday. attracted over 150,000 people to the two-mile D-shaped oval. Tucked away in the Inland Empire, the California Speedway only enhances Fontana’s history as a steel townnow a race town. The Speedway sits
on the site of the former Kaiser Steel Mill, built during WWII, providing steel for the construction of Liberty ships to aid in the war effort. On
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