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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. vol. 66, issue 16 frlday, September 23, 1983 new/bowling green state university Jury rejects insanity plea; rapist convicted AKRON, Ohio (AP) - Dr. Edward The jury's verdict came after nine The verdict ended a crime spree only with the crimes which occurred Most women were left tied up in compassionate physician by day who Franklin Jackson Jr., described as a hours of deliberation. Common Pleas that police say began on Sept. 25,1975, after Nov. 1, 1978, when a change in their residences. But one woman tes- for years was driven to become a compassionate physician by day but a Judge Frederick Williams scheduled and ended just before dawn on Sept. 5, state law shifted the burden of proof tified she was left bound and gagged burglar and rapist at night. brutal rapist by night, was convicted sentencing for 11 a.m. today. 1982, when Jackson was caught in the to the defense on insanity pleas. in the trunk of her car for four hours Psychologists and a psychiatrist yesterday on all 60 charges against If given the maximum sentence townhouse apartment of two women DURING FIVE weeks of often dra- before someone heard her muffled called by the defense said Jackson him for terrorizing 30 Columbus-area allowed by law, Jackson could face 1.- who weren't home. In his Mercedes- matic testimony, woman after cries. suffered a "one-in-a-million" obses- women. 370 years in prison. Morgan said, if Benz auto, police found index cards woman described how she was sur- sive-compulsive disorder. They con- Rejecting the 39-year-old internist's asked, he would request Williams listing the names of 65 women, many Erised during the early morning Jackson "scouted" his victims for tended he was unable to stop insanity plea, a five-woman, seven- impose the maximum consecutive of them his victims. ours, bound, brutalized and raped. up to two years before executing the attacking women, thus fitting the man jury found Jackson guilty of 21 sentences. However, Prosecutor Mi- Their testimony revealed a pattern meticulously planned attacks. His definition of legal insanity under Ohio rapes, three attempted rapes, four chael Miller said Jackson still would His arrest freed another man, Wil- followed by Jackson, whose victims wife of 17 years said there was never statutes. counts of gross sexual imposition, two be eligible for parole in 9V4 years. liam Bernard Jackson, no relation but were single women, including a for- any hint of Jackson's activity. He counts of Kidnapping, 29 aggravated remarkably similar to the physician mer nun. Most were in their 20s and routinely left home at 4:30 a.m. to In C«umbus, the head of the Co- burglaries and one count of posses- A ONB-TTME hospital board mem- in appearance. William Jackson had 30s, and nearly all lived in apartments make hospital rounds at 5 a.m., she lumbus Police Department's sexual sion of criminal tools. ber who voluntarily surrendered his served five years in prison for two of or townhouses. said. abuse squad called the verdict "what "I'm happy for the victims. Some of medical license on Wednesday, Jack- the rapes with which Dr. Jackson was Jackson attacked the sleeping we expected." them literally have been through son showed no emotion as the verdict charged, and still is awaiting compen- women, tied, gagged and blindfolded SINCE HIS attorneys admitted Detective Sgt. James Carr, a 33- hell," Edward Morgan, an assistant was read, maintaining the same im- sation from the state. them with pillowcases, rope and Jackson attacked the women, the real year veteran of the force, said police Franklin County prosecutor who passive expression he wore through- Dr. Jackson was accused of 36 pantyhose. He often called them by issue in the case was whether Jackson were "overjoyed" when they caught helped try the case, said. out the five-week trial. He refused to rapes and 60 related crimes. This name, threatening to kill them and was legally insane at the time. Jackson. "I thought I might be retired ''For the first time, some of them comment as sheriff's deputies led him trial, in which Jackson admitted the sometimes suffocating them until Defense attorneys portrayed Jack- before we got him. I did not want to •re going to walk tall," he added. from the courtroom to jail. crimes but said he was insane, dealt they lost consciousness. son as a "Dr. JekyU-Mr. Hyde," a leave until we found him," Carr said. Mexican seeks asylum If I would have stayed, I could have opposition to the U.S. political inter- by Carole Homberger been in serious danger," he said, vention in El Salvador. reporter "Two of my freinds were gunned "I believe that what is occuring in down while the other was kiddnapped. El Salvador is not a Russian invasion, Hector Marroquin is wanted by the This is one of the reasons why I sought as Reagan describes it, but instead a Mexican government for a murder political asylum," he said. revolution between the peasants and and robbery be says he did not com- the rich of that country, he said. DEFEND mit Since 1974 he has been seeking THE U.S. government denied him MARROQUIN SATO another rea- political asylum in the United States. politcal asylum and as of April 1979 son he was rejected was based on the Yesterday he spoke at the Taft Room ordered Marroquin back to Mexico criterion the government goes by in of the University Union and explained for reasons primarily concerning po- accepting these cases. WORKERS' RIGHTS litical and economical issues. According to Dr. Tsueno Akaha, tniin began bis long ordeal of According to Marroquin, one of the professor of political science, this seeking political asylum from the reasons has to do with his FBI file criterion has two parts. One part is United States six years ago when he which he said depicts him as a social- formal which states that a person fled Monterrey. Mexico in order to ist supporter guilty of crimes such as seeking political asylum "must show escape political persecution for his robbery since the age of 15. that his or her life is in danger be- lolifical Ki<;lu alleged crimes. "The United States wants nothing cause of circumstances beyond his "Escaping to the U.S. proved to be to do with illegal aliens entering their control." the best filing I ever did for it literally country and admitting that they are The other part is the informal crite- lUclciisc III! 1(1 saved my life," Marroquin said. supporters of socialist or Marxist ria which is the one actually used by He explained that the Mexican po- ideas," he said, "although they will the government. It states that "those lice "framed" him and three other accept Russian and Chinese tennis fleeing from governments that have friends for the murder of a librarian players and ballerinas with no ques- authoritative or oppressive govern- at Nuevo University in Mexico. ments, such as Russia, may seek photo/ oy Cori Lee Otoni Marroquin claims he was framed "I did consider taking ballet or political asylum rather than those Speaking out because of his continued involvement tennis lessons," he said. coming from countries where the with political movements in Mexico to Marroquin claims the U.S. Depart- United States is on friendly terms, Hector Marroquin (above), spoke in the Taft Room of the University Union yesterday on the U.S. fight for basic political rights. ment of Immigration does not like his such as Mexico. government case to deport him from this country because of his political ideas. Marroquin is a Mexican socialist opposing the U.S. intervention in Central America. The talk was sponsord by the Political Rights Defense Fund. Ohio boy continues painful eye treatment NEWARK, Ohio (AP) - Twelve-year- Michael and his stepfather, Ivan lays on the bed for 15 to 20 minutes. He once the treatments begin, the entire he could see cars moving on the street of the Soviet's shooting down a South old Michael Walker had to be talked Sickles, traveled to Moscow on Sept. 9 was just doubling up his fists and series of shots must be administered 10 stories below his hotel window. The Korean airliner may complicate their into continuing with painful eye treat- so doctors at the Helmholtz Institute saying, 'God, take the pain away,' " or the deterioration of his eyesight vehicles were blurred, but that was an travel plans, she noted. ments in the Soviet union, his mother could treat the boy for retinitis pig- his mother said. could be hastened. The treatment improvement in his vision, she said. said, but the boy told her he will keep mentosa, a disease which can cause Mrs. Sickles said Michael's morale normally takes two weeks, but be- And for the first time in three years, Mrs. Sickles expressed optimism, taking the shots that hurt so badly his blindness.