A TAPED CONFESSION BY THE ACCUSED KILLER OF LATE PRESIDENTIAL CONFIDANT ALFRED BLOOMINGDALE'S MISTRESS WAS MADE VOLUNTARILY AND WILL BE ADMITTED AS EVIDENCE AT HIS MURDER TRIAL

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May 15, 1984
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STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/21 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000404390001-2 4 UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL 15 May 1984 BY MICHAEL D. HARRIS LOS ANGELES A taped confession by the accused killer of late presidential confidant Alfred Bloomingdale's mistress was made voluntarily and will be admitted as evidence at his murder trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. Attorneys for Marvin Pancoast argued during a weeklong pretrial hearing that a total of five incriminating statements to police and a newspaper reporter should be suppressed as evidence on grounds Pancoast did not have an attorney present and'did not make the statements voluntarily. 'The court finds ... beyond a reasonable doubt that the statements were made voluntarily by Mr. Pancoast, that he waived his Miranda rights and that they will be admitted,'' Superior Court Judge David Horowitz ruled. Police officers testified last week that Pancoast walked into a police station the night Vicki Morgan was beaten to death with a baseball bat and confessed to the murder. On tape, he told police Miss Morgan wanted to die because she was about to be evicted from her condominium. Pancoast, 34, has pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity to the July 1983 baseball bat slaying of the 30-year-old woman, who had lost a multi-million palimony suit against the department store heir's estate. The judge said his ruling was not a determination of whether Pancoast was legally insane at time of the murder, whether he was guilty or innocent or whether the statements were true. 'What this means is that the people (prosecutors) will be asked to prove that these statements are truthful and the people have absolutely no evidence to prove that,'' defense attorney Charles Mathews said. "In fact,'' he added, ''they have a volume evidence to prove these statements are full of untruths. I don't think Marvin knew what he was saying.'' Before the ruling, defense attorney Arthur Barens said he will renew efforts to force the FBI an o re ease any video tapes they may have showing top government officials at sex orgies. "We're going to start contacting those agencies again tomorrow to see if the l voluntarily respond to our subpoenas, " Barens said. "If not, we will seek the judge's help to order them to comply w1 the subpoena.'' Continued Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/21 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000404390001-2 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/21 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000404390001-2 a. Court documents revealed last week that Barens had subpoened several agencies for any documentser or showing rneyeGxeneral nominee Edwin Meese, parties. Pedcost'attorneys have said the subpoenae'documents and video tapes are needed t to prove to kill Vicki Morgan.'' refus The CIA so far hI- i- reeated to has turned over on y mi a ma prostitution related investigation of Bloomindale. Attorney Robert K. Steinberg, sex b tapes, hthenlsaid they had been stolen,jail, claimed he viewed the purported Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/21 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000404390001-2