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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Marin County will not pay for a legal adviser for a serial killing suspect who is representing himself in his murder trial.
Joseph Naso is charged in the killings of four Northern California prostitutes in the 1970s and 1990s. All of the victims had matching first and last initials.
Naso has pleaded not guilty.
According to investigative documents unsealed in the case, Naso kept a list in his Reno, Nev., home that described 10 women, including the four victims.
Naso initially chose to represent himself but later sought a legal adviser, saying his incarceration has limited his ability to conduct legal research. He also said he wasn’t able to access funds to pay for a lawyer himself.
But Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet ruled Friday that the 77-year-old Naso has enough money to pay for his own lawyer.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Marin County will not pay for a legal adviser for a serial killing suspect who is representing himself in his murder trial.
Joseph Naso is charged in the killings of four Northern California prostitutes in the 1970s and 1990s. All of the victims had matching first and last initials.
Naso has pleaded not guilty.
According to investigative documents unsealed in the case, Naso kept a list in his Reno, Nev., home that described 10 women, including the four victims.
Naso initially chose to represent himself but later sought a legal adviser, saying his incarceration has limited his ability to conduct legal research. He also said he wasn’t able to access funds to pay for a lawyer himself.
But Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet ruled Friday that the 77-year-old Naso has enough money to pay for his own lawyer.
Serial slaying suspect will have to pay for a legal advisor
Posted: 07/29/2011 04:02:53 PM PDT
Updated: 07/29/2011 04:03:05 PM PDT
SAN RAFAEL — A judge has ruled that Marin County will not pay for a legal advisor for a serial killing suspect who is representing himself in his murder trial.
Joseph Naso is charged in the killings of four Northern California prostitutes in the 1970s and 1990s, including two women whose bodies were dumped in the East Bay.
Naso initially chose to represent himself, but later sought a legal advisor, saying his incarceration has limited his ability to do legal research. He also said he wasn’t able to access funds to pay for a lawyer.
But Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet ruled Friday that the 77-year-old Naso has enough money to pay for his own lawyer.
Deputy District Attorney Dori Ahana told the judge that Naso’s Wells Fargo checkbook will be placed with his property at the jail today.
Naso seemed surprised by the news.
“Oh, that’s fine,” he said. “See, there is something going on behind my back.”
Naso is charged with the murders of Roxene Roggasch, 18, of Oakland; Carmen Colon, 22, an East Bay resident; and Pamela Parsons, 38, and Tracey Tayofa, 31, both of Yuba County.
Roggasch’s body was found in Marin County and Colon’s was found in Contra Costa County.
Naso was arrested without a warrant by Marin County sheriff’s investigators on April 11 in South Lake Tahoe when he was released from El Dorado County Jail where he was serving one year for a probation violation.
The probable cause documents in support of his arrest state that all four women were working as prostitutes at the time of their deaths.
For Simone Corday, a former stripper and lover of the late Artie Mitchell, it is as if time had rolled back, returning her to tragedy’s dark grip.
While SexIs talked to Simone about her recent memoir, 9 1/2 Years Behind The Green Door, about the golden era of the flesh business in San Francisco and the brutal murder of Artie, she felt an eerie connection between Jim Mitchell’s son, James, and his current legal woes. Calling it “an odd deja-vu,” James, 29, was convicted a few days ago for killing the mother of his child with a baseball bat. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison.
The Mitchell brothers are porn royalty. They were porn’s true pioneers with their 1972 blockbuster film, Behind The Green Door, which grossed over $72 million. The movie, which was produced for $60,000, starred actress Marilyn Chambers, of Ivory Snow fame, in her debut.
Now, the son’s murder case parallels that of his father, Jim, who founded …
credit: H. Merideth While the SFPD continues to sort out the Kenneth Harding shooting-death case, Chronicle reports today that Harding’s older brother Ondrell Harding is now wanted in connection with the beating death of a 50-year-old Seattle man. According to the Chronicle, the homicide occurred around 3 a.m. last Saturday morning and KTVU reports that the older Harding was booked late Monday night outside of Seattle.
In this latest killing connected to the Hardings, Seattle PD told the Chronicle the victim was “was beaten to death in front of his wife in his home in south Seattle.” Before the shootout in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood that left Kenneth Harding dead, he was a suspect in the slaying of pregnant 19-year-old Tanaya Gilbert (also in Seattle) and serving parole for attempted prostitution of a minor.
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Ondrell Harding, 21, is a suspect in the beating death of a 50-year-old man Saturday in Seattle, San Francisco police said. The killing occurred one week after Harding’s brother Kenneth Wade Harding, 19, died in a shootout with police on Third Street in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood.
Police believe Kenneth Harding accidentally shot himself to death as he tried to fire a round at officers, who had wounded him in the leg. The bullet that entered his neck and lodged in his head was from a .380-caliber handgun, authorities said. The gun has not been found, but San Francisco police do not use .38o-caliber weapons.
Harding allegedly fired at officers who tried to stop him for Muni fare evasion, police said. At the time, he was being sought as a person of interest in the July 13 shooting death of Tanaya Gilbert, 19, in south Seattle. He was also on parole for trying to prostitute a 14-year-old girl.
Polish Bar follows Reuben Horowitz (played by Boardwalk Empire’s Vincent Piazza) as he tries to make a name for himself as a DJ in the Chicago club and music scene. He’s anchored to his family by working at the jewelry store of his Uncle Sol (Judd Hirsch), but he’s drawn away from them by his other gig, which is at a strip club—where he also acts as a drug supplier for the clientele. The film screened this past weekend at the Castro Theater during the 31st San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and three other opportunities to see it during the festival remain: It plays Berkeley Repertory Theatre July 30, in Stanford August 2 and at the Rafael Film Center August 6. I convened with director Ben Berkowitz over email to discuss such intriguing aspects of Polish Bar as the use of music and the representation of his hometown of Chicago.
See the full article from “SF360.org”
People stopped going out to the movies as often. The Fox was torn down in 1963; Market Street was just a big construction site, as it was torn up to construct BART in 1964. And in 1967, all the marquees and neon lights were shut off.
And so the theatres started introducing other attractions to bring in patrons. Like gambling, and X-rated movies.
ADDINGTON: The theaters became more seedy, and began to show things that were certainly not as family…oriented. So, a little more risqué. And as you went into the later ‘60s, fully pornographic. The Crazy Horse is a great example. The predecessor to CNN … Crazy Horse. Used to be the News Reel Theater. They played news reels, 24/7.
Now, the Crazy Horse is a strip club. The Warfield suffered, but it never got to that point.
Marin County prosecutor Rosemary Slote said during a pretrial hearing that the safety deposit boxes are key evidence in the case against Joseph Naso. Slote was seeking to subpoena bank records to confirm the box belonged solely to Naso.
“He had two boxes, one with items related to victims of this case and a second with monies,” Slote said. “The fact that there are two safe deposit boxes is significant in this case.”
The 77-year-old Naso, who sat during a hearing Tuesday shackled and clutching a manila envelope with his handwritten legal documents, is charged with the murders in the 1970s and 1990s of four prostitutes with matching initials: Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya. Authorities in other states are also looking at Naso in connection with unsolved killings.
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