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1 4A TODAY. Saturday. February 19. IMS Jury of patients acquits doc in death MONAHANS, Texas (AP) A jury that Included some of his patients found a popular small town physician Innocent Friday of hastening the death of a mortally wounded man by Injecting air Into one of his veins. Dr.

Juan Peres Valladarez was the first physician to stand trial of attempted murder by air injection in Texas, according to the trial Judge. The jury deliberated two hours Before they were impaneled, 10 of the 12 jurors acknowledged that either they or members of their fami lies had been patients of Perez, one of five general practitioners in Mona hans, a west Texas town of 9,000 After the verdict, friends rushed up to greet Perez. Drivers going by the courthouse honked their car homs "Justice took place," said Perez, 57, after the verdict "I was always innocent Perez stood up and clasped his hands to his chest as the verdict was announced. His wife Argelia wept. "It was an uphill battle all the way," said Special Prosecutor Dennis Cadra.

Perez was charged with attempting to kill Michael Hoffman by Injecting a 20 cubic centimeter syringe full of air into the victim while Hoffman was being treated at Ward Memorial Hospital Nov 4.. 1981. Hoffman, 28, died 40 minutes after he was shot once through his forehead A pathologist testified that the injection was not the cause of death Emergency room nurse Brenda Rowan testified for the prosecution that on the night Hoffman was brought in Perez had complained he "had a hard day" and "wasn't going to wait around all night" for the victim to die Jury foreman Edna Hopkins Bragg said the acquittal was a "tough decision," and Juror Beatrice Reyes Martinez, whose family has been treated by Perez, said the verdict was reached on the second vote. Juror Lee Ann Edwards said jurors decided to acquit Perez because "there was not enough evidence" against him. The Cuban born doctor said be plans to remain in Monahans, where he has practiced medicine for IS years, and to return to the hospital where the patient died.

James Ralph Echols of El Paso Is charged with murder in the Hoffman killing, and is being held on a 1982 robbery charge In Riverside, Calif. No change of venue was sought, Cadra said, because he thought the motion would be denied Presiding Judge Joe Connally of nearby Odessa said he would have overruled a change of venue, pointing out that one jury member was the son of the foreman of the grand jury which indicted the doctor. Widow justice has been served LOS ANGELES (AP) John Langlos was found dead In his blood spattered office seven years ago, his wallet missing and his head gashed. The county coroner at the time, Thomas Noguchl, called it an accident. His widow called It murder.

Ruth Langlos took on the coroner's office and won. On Friday her husband's former colleague was being held on murder charges and Langlos says she is "in a state of euphoria." Eugene Clarence Hartman. 94, a former psychologist who lost his license in 1977, was arrested Wednesday in Hayward, where he lived with his parents. Arraignment was scheduled for Friday. Langlos, a clinical psychologist, was found dead in his Downey office Feb.

2, 1976. After two autop sies by pathologists In Noguchl's office, the death was ruled an accident. The autopsy findings Indicated Langlos suffered a heart attack and struck his head In a fall. Downey police, however, listed the case as a homicide. Hartman, who once worked with Langlos at the Lakewood Park Health Center In Downey, was arrested for investigation of murder after trying to cash one of the checks Langlos kept In his wallet.

The charge was reduced to forgery. Hartman served 36 days in jail and was paroled. District Attorney Robert Phlli boslan said Hartman was not charged with murder because the coroner's office ruled Langlos "died from a heart attack and not from a Mow to the head." "On re evaluation of (the medical evidence), we find that the blow to the head was a contribut big factor to death and that the heart attack was a stress or fear Induced heart attack," Philiboslan said. Hartman later served four years In prison on an assault conviction in' San Diego and was placed on 36 months of probation after pleading guilty to petty theft in West Los Angeles last year. Mrs.

Langlos charges Noguchl's office apparently "lost" the dead man's brain, which was discovered missing during a second autopsy. Last year, after Mrs. Langlos paid for Independent autopsies, a coroner's jury ruled that her husband died of "undetermined causes the hands of another." "Why did I have to spend all these years and $50,000, to get justice?" she asked. lAgency to aid alien hunt TODAY. Saturday.

February 19, 1983 WASHINGTON (AP) The Social Security Administration wants to give 'immigration authorities easier access to Its claims files to help track Illegal aliens and other foreigners in the United States. m. The agency's proposal would allow the Immigration and Naturalization Serv lce, on request, "routine use" of the addresses, place of employment and other information In the folders. Currently, the INS can look at such files only when it Is conducting a specific criminal Investigation. Arnold Torres, national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, which opposes federal crackdowns on aliens, charged Friday, mm "They're on a witchhunt." "We're going to see What we can do to try to stop It," said Torres.

"We feel it Is an affront to civil rights, a travesty of the constitutional protections of privacy and a misuse of Social Security Information." Torres said he was angered, but not jj surprised by the move. "Before you know it, they're going to start putting numbers on peoples' foreheads as they come across the border legally," he charged. The proposal would take effect March 17. The American Civil Liberties Union Is reviewing the proposal. David Landau, its legislative counsel In Washington, said the policy would "water down the protections of the Privacy "We are concerned the Social Security Administration would become an arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and they would end up enforcing the Immigration laws," said Landau.

Landau said that if the INS conducted a "sweep" a raid on a workplace with no probable cause to suspect that illegal aliens worked there, the agency might be able to gather evidence after the fact by checking the Social Security files. Jim Brown, spokesman for Social Security, said that a 1932 law already requires the agency to give the attorney general, on request, information about aliens. iaaaaaaaaaaasa Military, Customs may join forces DENNIS DeCONCINI backs drug fight By DAVID SHAPIRO TOOAT IWIH Nm tOTrtc. WASHINGTON The military and the Customs Service are nearing agreement on a Joint surveillance program to reduce the flow of Latin American cocaine, quaaludes and marijuana Into the United States, congressional sources said Friday. The plan, being pushed by Sen.

Dennis DeConcini, Arizl, and Rep. Glenn English, is aimed at challenging smugglers who carry millions of dollars worth of drugs across the southern U.S. border each day In light airplanes and small boats. Under the program, the Army and Navy would lend up to 18 sophisticated aircraft to the Customs Service, Including 3A radar planes, ll tracking planes and Blackhawk helicopters. Additional air surveillance would be provided by the Air Force.

The aircraft would be flown by Customs Service pilots from eight bases at strategic points between San Diego, and Miami. If Congress approves funding, the first of the new aircraft could be operating from Tucson's Davis Monthan Air Force Base the initial test sue within a few months "The use of existing military equipment could provide the US. Customs Service with a total detection, interception and seizure and arrest capability across the entire southern border of the United States," English said, adding that the cost would be "a fraction of what it would cost the taxpayers to pay for new equipment DeConcini said the surveillance network would be "very difficult for drug smugglers to penetrate." "This border enforcement strategy would be a major step in the direction of providing a more coordinated federal approach to stopping the flow of drugs into our country," he said Both English and DeConcini stressed that the aircraft loans Involve surplus equipment, and would not disrupt any military operations. English has scheduled House Governmental Operations' Committee hearings on the proposal In Miami on Feb 25 and 26. The Customs Service and military agencies are expected to announce the drug agreements, now being finalized, at the hearings.

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