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towards payment ot a handwriting experting and he'd try to borrow the rest.
Robertson noted that Whitcomb’s fee is three and a half times the amount that Payne is paid for representing Douglas. The court certainly can’t authorize more than counsel is receiving, the judge added, setting the maximum at S200. "This court has tried very hard to give you a fair trial but it can’t ignore the law." said Robertson, questioning Douglas' right to make a citizen's arrest when a felony wasn't actively being committed in his presence. Without the authority for a citizen's arrest, the issue of the identity of the mar Douglas shot—whether ht was Peter Marx or a communist conspirator—becomes irrelevant, as does the testimony of a handwriting expert who would attempt tc prove that identity, the judge explained. '
Douglas countered that he'd had a handwriting expert ready to testify at ar earlier date but that Baumgardner had refused tc give him a trial. "Now he's kicked the bucket.” (Initially, the trial was delayed in ordet
for Douglas to receive psychiatric examinations tc determine his competency to stand trial. After three examinations, he was ruled competent but the commonwealth was unable tc persuade Peter Marx tc testify against his alleged assailant at ttaaA-fpiMl^As i —mult.- Baumgardner nol
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