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? - r , - I ?I - -- I r- I . GAMECOCK LXXI, No. 29 University of South Carolina Monday, October 5,1981 Jury Di d By MARK PLATTE i Editor After eight days of deliberation, a 16-member Richland County jury decided Saturday that Donald Ray Perry is guilty of kidnapping, raping and murdering USC education nrAfficcnr Mom; llAimKAr#YA?* p& vivoovi mm j h^aiiim^a 5^1 An enraged Perry shouted, "You set me up, you son of a bitch" to Solicitor James C. Anders after the verdicts were read and the jury excused. Perry banged his fists on the defense table as deputies and his attorneys restrained him. "Vftll'ro cfninn fn Knra in hall " Dowti'o tirifo Mimnm A VV4 A V gvin^ l>V MUA II AAA 11V11) A VI 1 J O VT IlVj 1T1U (0111, yelled at Anders as he left the courtroom. Other family members wept after the verdicts, and defense attorney Ed Mullinaux embraced Perry. Circuit Judge Julius Bagett warned the court before the decision was reached that any outbursts after the reading of the verdict would be delt with severly. THE JURY still has to decide starting today whether Perry will spend his life in prison or die in the electric chair. The jury was dismissed Friday afternoon after Anders, Assistant Solicitor Steve Brown, Public Defender Gaston Fairey and his assitant Mullineaux presented their final statements Friday morning. Mullineaux made his statement first, explaining the history of his role in Pery's defense. "In the beginning, all we had to go on were arrest warrants, newspaper articles and what we could get from Donald Ray Perry," Mullineaux said. "I didn't know what to expect until his subconsious came out at the hospital. If you were in that room," the attorney told the jurors, "you wouldn't have any doubt he hadn't made up a story." Mliu JNKAIJX argued that both the car Perrv was driving and Heimberger's car were at the scene, reasoning that both automobiles could not be present unless two people were involved. Perry testified during the trial that his friend Larry Deloach forced the defendant at gun-point to rape Heimberger before Deloach shot her three times. Deloach took the witness stand two days later and denied any involvement. "Is HnnalH Rav Perrv so stnnid that he'd keen the tzun he - J X r O used to kill this woman and sit and wait for the police to come?" Mullineaux asked the jury. "He didn't wash his cai (of red mud caked on his car from the murder scene) or Defense Attorney Gastor his case with Circuit Judg< I during the trial of Donald f A % AS& scfares1 m sia wmawy throw that gun away because he didn't know what happened. "Whose got a reason to lie?" asked Mullineaux. "Not Donald Ray Perry. He was accused of a murder he didn't commit." Steve Brown spent one and a-half hours on his closing suuemem, leiung me jury, "you nave Deen silting in tne courtroom looking at the most dangerous human being you've probably ever laid eyes on, but he doesn't look that way today. M AWV folanKntlAC 'n AM v if imaii s ivivpuuuvo, Olltl HI is UC^WI U11CIIIS U1 dlld lll?> did he pass (when he claimed he chased Deloach's car more than nine miles from Richway shopping center to the murder site in a subdivision of Lincolnshire)?" Brown asked. He said a reasonable man wouldn't have chased DeLoach without stopping for help. Showing the photo of Heimberger's body to the jury several times, Brown addressed Perry, "I take my hat off to you. You are many things, but you are not dumb." "It makes no sense at all," Brown said. "He raped her, he shot her, he bludgeoned her, put a belt around her neck and dragged her around like a dog. Then he says, 'I react poorly under stress, ask my psychiatrists.' Don't walk out of here after two weeks and let this murderer go," he pleaded with *1 me iiiiic-inaii, liit cc-wuiuciii jui y. When Anders presented his statement, he said he wouldn't mention DeLoach because "Do Dog (DeLoache's nickname) is not worth talking about." "IN 14 YEARS of prosecuting and defending, I've never heard a story like this," Anders said, calling Perry "animallike" rather than "child-like." Gaston Fairey defended his client by saying the charts taken of the area were inaccurate. He countered that fncfimAnt; IIIOC? Kir a w n ifAttiU ??? ? ivotuiiuiijr nas givtu ujr an aica juuiu wiiu aaw iicuuucigci a car driven in front of the boy's apartment complex at 11:30 p.m. March 5. Perry's sister said her brother arrived at home at 11:38 p.m. the night of the murder. The two locations are separated by a number of miles and Perry claimed he had been digging his car out of mud where it mired in mud at the murder site. tuin a.oa ? r: 1 4?4: : 11 t~~ 1 1 ima iiiuiuuig tii a.ou (i.iu. niiai icMimuuy win ue nearu * before sentencing. Anders said he expects final arguments to end today. 1 Fairey argues Jnlj s Julius Baggett ^ fgj|| ^mmmm im fbhik 11 ft i Mm ?LV M i Wi 11 3^" , l:~ 1' w 4i 'Pit-# If Back USC page 16 Queen ; Prep Visits 1 use I page w | Fed Limits Student Loans page 3