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NO WOMAN S RIGHTSStale Asks Murder Trial Jury To Ignore Candace Mossler's GlamourMIAMI (UPI) —The state take to agree on a 12-man jury told a tentative jury Monday and two to four alternate not to be swayed by the jurors, glamour of blonde widowCandace Mossier, charged with plotting with her alleged lover the murder of her millionaire husband.The former model “Is not entitled to any rights, privileges or Immunities not given a man,’! said prosecutor Richard E. Gersteln.Mrs. M o s s 1 e r’s attorney, Clyde Woody, who was to resume interrogation of prospective jurors today, emphasized that the defenses of Candace and her nephew, Melvin Lane Powers, “are separate and individual.“There is a mistaken conception that this is a common defense,” said Woody. “There are two separate defendants and two separate defenses.’*Woody said he headed a three*member legal team for Candace, while Percy Foreman, a noted criminal lawyer from Houston, Tex., represented Powers along with two other attorneys.The 45-year-old Candace, who says she is 39, and Powers, 29, are accused of first degree 11 murder in the stabbing-beating death of 69-year-old Jacques 1 Mossier, who left an estate of around $28 million. The state ' says Powers killed Mossier to iVJ. continue a torrid affair with «« Candace.The trial ic «•* -------*CANDACE MOSSLER, on trialin Miami, Fla., with her nephew', Melvin Powers, in the murder of her millionaire
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Mount Carmel Daily Republican Register
Mount Carmel, Illinois, US
Tue, Jan 25, 1966
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