Jury Gets Hart Case After Heated Final Arguments

              tULdrt \A  \  my gets Hart case  after  heated final arguments  By SUSAN WITT /      ' -THREE   LITTLE   GIRLS   were     raped,   another little   gii  By SUSAN WITT  and JIM GIPSON  Of The Tribune Staff  Related story, page 7B  PRYOR — Tempers flared and attorneys exchanged heated words  today as both sides gave closing  arguments to a Mayes County jury  that began shortly after noon deciding the fate of Gene Leroy Hart in his  capital murder trial in the sex-slay-  ings of three Girl Seoul  Emotions were high as defense attorneys Garvin Isaacs and Gary  Pitchlyiui tried to convince the jury  that the State's case1 against Hart is  part of a "grand design" to "convict  an innocent man."  Isaacs, who earlier had presented  Witnesses in an attempt to link Kansas inmate Bill Stevens to the murders, detailed the evidence pointing  to Stevens before the jury. "Bill Stevens, where is he?" Isaacs aske  Then the attorn* uinaU  courtroom* cross-  examination as if Stevens were  ited in the witness chair.  "MR. STEVENS, isn't ft true you  We        I Camp Scott on June 13?"  "Mr. Stevens, Mrs. Payne and her  three sons told us they loaned you  the flashlight," Isaacs said.  "Mr. Stevens, why is it that your  fingerprint is on the reflector of that  flashlight?" Isaacs asked.  Prosecutor S.M. Fallis Jr. jumped  to his feet, objecting.  "Your Honor. I will have to object  to counsel stating facts not in evidence/* Fallis began.  Isaacs continued his mock qm  tioning, shouting over Fallis.  "He had his own experts examine  that flashlight and the fingerprint  does not belong to Stevens," Fallis  shouted.  Isaacs then walked toward Fallis,  stretching out his arm and pointing a  finger a few inches from the prosecutor's nose.  "That's a lie and you know it,"  Isaacs screamed.  v/u are certainly free with  that .word..." Fallis began.  District Judge William Whistler  then n 1 his voice for the first  time during the two-week trial and  ordered the      orneys to the bench.  Prosecutor Hon Shaffer had earlier told jurors, "I know you are all  tired. I'm tired. We're all tired. But  don't let your fatigue interfere with  what must be done in this case.  THREE LITTLE GIRLS were  brutally murdered, sodomized and  raped by that man — Gene Leroy  Hart," Shaffer said, pointing at  Hart.  "Think about what was found in  that camp," he said. "First, we find  two little girls zipped up in their  sleeping bags — one tied with her  hands at her side while she had been  raped, another little girl dead,  zipped up in her sleeping bag.  "She had been raped, and remember Dr. Hoffman's testimony that  that even occurred after the little  girl was dead," Shaffer said.  "Then we have Doris Denise  MiliH  " \nd even though that little girl  can't be here, she left you all some  evidence," he said.  he was bound with her hands  behind her back, cord tied around  her hands and black tape over that  cord.  ''Yler little pajama top was taped  with black duct tape to hold her  shoulders down.  4 And what did we find on that  tape'?  The hairs of Gene Leroy Hart,"  Sh told the jurors.  And what did we lind vr>?--Tri^+ho. ■<  little girls'  bodies? The sperm  of  Gene Leroy Hart,'* Shaffer said.  Counsel says (Mayes County  Sheriff) Pete Weaver planted evidence in this 0380," Shaffer said.  "SHAME ON YOU, Pete," Shaffer  yelled at Weaver, "if you haven't  got anything better than that to  plant." *•      •  "My God, if you're going to plant  something, why didn't you go out  there and plant fingerprints?  They're a lot better," Shaffer said.  Give him a little bit of credit,"  the attorney said.  Fallis, attempting to complete his  portion of closing arguments  through repeated and boisterous objections from Isaacs, said, "In my 18  years of prosecution I never have  seen such demeanor of lawyers, defense lawyers and their cheering  section."  Fallis was referring to spontaneous, but muffled outbreaks of giggling and hand-clapping during  Isaacs closing argument.  The Tulsa prosecutor asked the  jurors to "use their common sense  See JURY, page 4A