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LETTER to Judge Sutzner from Committe on the Judiciary Re: Request for
Grand Jury Materials.

LETTER to Judge Butzner from Alan I. Baron, Esq Re: Request for disc of
Electronic Surveillance Materials & Information.

LIST of Authorities.

LIST of Points & Authorities reited upon by the Committe on the Judiciary.
MOTION for leave to file appendix to obj to requests for discl, by
Judge Alcee L. Hastings.

APPENDIX to obj to requests for disclosure.

OBJECTIONS to requests for disclosure, by Judge Alcee L. Hastings.
LARRAZ, JOSE J. JR:
HASTINGS:

HASTINGS:
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MOTION to Quash GJ Subpoena w/Memo.

HOUSE RESOLUTION Impeaching Judge Alcee L. Hastings rendered by
100th Congress, 1st Session of the Committee on the Judiciary.
MEMORANDUM of LAW.

ORDER (BUTZNER-12/2/87) 1. UNSEALING all documents related tc
HASTING's role in authorizing & supervising electronic surveill
of MIAMI INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION (MIAMI ILA)
& all documents relating to improper disclosure by HASTINGS of
generrated by elec. surveillance; for purposes of copying &
inspection by the HOUSE COMMITTEE OF JUDICIARY (COMMITTEE).
2. DENYING COMMITTEE's Request for diary of former AUSA MARTIN
3. GRANTING COMMITTEE & it's couns. any info re: conduct of
HASTINGS in connection w/MIAMI ILA.

4.

GRANTING COMMITTEE inspection & copying rights of the test of CLARK & MAZZELLA & exhs presented to GJ 86-3 re: HASTINGS ro in surveillance of MIAMI ILA.

5. STAYING this order for 14 days after entry. (BOD 12/4/87). TRANSCRIPT of hrg dated 11/10/87 before Senior Judge Butzner, J. Pages 1-30.

NOTICE OF APPEAL from Final Order entered by Senior Judge Butzm on 12/2/87. (Copy to USCA & Appellant's Atty.) (R#55550) FEE PAID USCA ack receipt of NOA. (87-6070).

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By CHRISTINE EVANS

And JEFF LEEN

Hervid Nut Writers

For 22 months. Alberto San Pedro has trekked back and forth between Dade County's jail and courthouse, becoming a born-again Christian, befriending his jailers, hobnobbing with Miami River Cops even ordering pizza delivered to his cell.

Along the way, he shaved his mustache, acquired contact lenses and trimmed his physique Well-tailored conservative suits have replaced the athletic warm-up gear he used to sport. His manner, once flip. is now serious

This week, the wait is over

After an arduous jury selection and months of motions, attorneys will deliver opening arguments today in one of the must sensational corruption cases to hit Dade County

The complex web of bribery, drug and murder

conspiracy allegations is all the more fascinating for the minor players it entangles police, politicians, judges. even a former local television reporter and a one-time beauty queen.

"I've never come across a case quite this far-reaching or complicated," said Assistant State Attorney Susan Dechovitz, the 33-year-old lead San Pedro prosecutor

It took lawyers seven weeks to pick a jury. Dade's longest selection process in recent memory The case attracted so much publicity that, by the time the trai rolled around, virtually everyone had heard of San Pedro One prospective juror told the court the name conjured up "accusations of murder, drugs, influence peddling and various other and sundry problems in Hialeah"

For the next several months, six jurors and three

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alternates will sift through the life story of Alberto Elio San Pedro, a young Cuban who grew up tough on the streets of Hialeah and rose to court the city's political elite.

Metro-Dade police accuse him of bribing his way through the system, dealing cocaine and plotting to kill two men who crossed him.

To make their case, three prosecutors will call scores of witnesses and produce more than 1.000 tapes of San Pedro's secretly recorded conversations The state's case is expected to last three or four months.

San Pedro's two defense attorneys will counter that their client was simply a young mover and shaker set up for a fall.

"The state lured, persuaded and tricked Albert into giving them money as an excuse to arrest him." said Irwin Block, one of San Pedro's attorneys.

The characters are worthy of a low-rent thriller:

San Pedro. 37 a smart, self-made man, son of a Hialeah horse trainer. He bragged on police wiretap tapes that "every politician has his price."

• Roxanna Greene, 25, San Pedro's former girlfriend. She went to police and, with their blessing. placed a hidden microphone in her lover's office telephone after San Pedro tapped her phone and threatened her.

"I was scared for my life." Greene said at a court hearing in August. "And I wanted somebody law enforcement to know everything about Alberto San Pedro... in case I ended up in missing persons."

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Carlos Redondo, 38, San Pedro's body. guard. Police reports say he broke a man's jaw for San Pedro. Out on bond, he wears an electronic ankle bracelet that allows police to track his movements. Redondo is being tried with San Pedro.

Donald Dugan, 50. San Pedro's errand boy and a one-time community newspaper writer who will go to trial separately. Prosecutors say San Pedro had Dugan pay Opa-locka Commissioner Brian Hooten $4.000 bribe so Hooten would change his vote on a rezoning for a waste-recycling plant. Hooten was working with police.

The supporting players, many of them on the defense witness list, constitute a political who's who: U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, Metro-Dade Mayo. Steve Clark, Miami Beach Mayor Alex Daoud, Tumer Opa-locka Mayor John Riley. Informant Greene's testimony and San Pedro's own boasting on the police tapes drew these names and others into the scandal.

Now, as the trial opens, the more sensational allegations involving political bigwigs have fizzled Investigators either failed to bring charges or found no evidence of wrongdoing.

The state's case boils down to three key witnesses and San Pedro's damaging admissions on the tapes. The tapes are crucial.

Defense attorneys fought hard to keep more than half of them out of evidence, winning a short-lived victory in September when Circuit Judge Harold Solomon threw out 513 of the 1.000. An appeal court overruled him.

For San Pedro, the most devastating tapes may be those recorded on Feb. 4, 1986. nine days before his first arrest on bribery charges. That was the date the tape caught San Pedro talking with Redondo about the alleged murder plot.

"Take enough bullets." San Pedro said. "Empty that one into him."

Responded Redondo: "With great conviction I'll empty it on him there. I will surely do that."

That also was the date that Florida Parole Commission Examiner Frankie Lee McFadden personally delivered a letter supporting a pardon for San Pedro to San Pedro's house. The tape recorded San Pedro giving McFadden something.

"It's just a gift," San Pedro told McFadden. Another tape, recorded Feb. 11. captured San Pedro discussing the alleged Hooten bribe: "We gave a politician in Opa-locka a bribe for $4,000."

The state's case also depends on the testimony of Greene, San Pedro's ex-girlfriend. and undercover police officers Kennedy Rosario and Nelson Perry. Defense attorneys will attack Greene's credibility, raising the fact that Greene failed an FBI polygraph before coming to Metro-Dade Organized Crime Bureau investigators.

"We feel that the evidence will show that she was a woman scorned who was just trying to get even with Albert," Block said.

But Greene will say she deliberately failed the polygraph because she was not convinced the FBI was serious about pursuing the case And prosecutors will point out that events have backed up several of her allegations:

She said San Pedro paid a state official to write a letter on behalf of San Pedro's pardon request, and police ended up arresting McFad den.

She said San Pedro had a contact at Southern Bell who would bug phones. and police ended up arresting Bell supervisor Heinrich Kobetitsch.

She said Dade School Board member Kathleen Magrath took illegal campaign contributions from San Pedro, and McGrath ended up admitting it was true.

McFadden was convicted: Kobetitsch and Magrath have pleaded guilty

And Greene is not the state's entire case. "We do not file cases based on the word of an informant alone," said Dechovitz. "We used that as a tool to go ahead and begin an investigation and to try to get corroboration and direct proof of crimes."

The other key prosecution witnesses. Rosario and Perry, will testify that San Pedro paid them to provide police investigative files. Rosario and Perry wore body bugs to numerous meetings with San Pedro San Pedro's defense attorneys will counter that the officers entrapped their cuent

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