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Sabiches seek Longet files;sheriff says they're missingDENVER (API - Lawyers for the parents of professional skier Vladimir “Spider” Sabich Jr. say they want a court order granting them confidential files about Ciaudine Longet.The lawyers said Wednesday they expect the files will show the ex-Las Vegas showgirl liad been drinking before she shot and killed Sabich early last year.The lawyers also said they also expect the files to show the couple's relationship had de* teriorated and that Sabich had given Miss Longet an ultima-turn to move out of the plush home they shared near the Rocky Mountain ski resort town of Aspen.Lawyers for Mr. and Mrs. Vladimir Sabieh say they’ll ask for a state court order directing District Attorney Frank Tucker, whose office prosecuted Miss Longet, to turn over the information for their use in a $1.3 million civil suit they have filed against Miss Longet.But Tucker said Wednesday much oi the information, including notes he had taken on the contents of Miss Longet’s diary, is missing and was apparently slolen during a burglary at his home last week.The 35-year-old French-bornsinger and actress served a 30-day jail term imposed after she was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the March, 1976 death of Sahich, who was her lover.In their suit, filed in U.S. District Court here, the Sabichs claim Miss Longet deprived them uf the support uf their son and violated his civil rights by killing him.Chief U.S. District Court Judge Fred Winner heard more than five hours of arguments Wednesday about the file materials and said state courts should be given the first chance to decide the dispute.Tucker has joined lawyers for Miss Longet in objecting to the demand for the files. The district attorney said information In the files, was based on interviews' in which- the sources were promised confidentiality.Miss . Lqnget's'.: : lawyers claimed the files would prejudice their client’s defense in the civil suit, that the files are based on hearsay, and that they could lead to slander suits and would “tend to derogate the character” of both Sabicb and Miss Longet.Prosecutors were barred from using certain evidence against Miss Longet because Colorado courts had ruled it was seized illegally. The evidence included Miss Longet's diary and laboratory analyses of blood and urine samples taken s non af ter the s hooting.The Sabiches' lawyers also say they feel the files will contradict Miss Longet's testimony that she got the gun with which she shoL Sabich because she was afraid to be home alone.Tucker says the apparent burglary* of his home in which some of the disputed evidence was taken is being investigated by the Garfield County sheriff’s office and private . investigators.Pot Hook funds slashedWASHINGTON (UPD — The slashed. Wednesday by theSavery Pot Hook water project Senate Appropriations Commit-on the Wyoming-Colorado tec.border was among nine deve- ,Iopments for which funding was The act™, anrecommendation of the commit-
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Greeley Daily Tribune
Greeley, Colorado, US
Thu, Jun 23, 1977
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