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Flynn to offer no defense at preliminaryHOLLYWOOD. (UP). Film Star Errol Flynn will present no defense when he appears for preliminary hearing Monday on two charges of statutory rape, Attorney Jerry Giesler said. jGiesler said the actor's defense would not be made until the case is heard in superior court. when j “w'e are more certain than ever the charges will be disproved and Flynn s name cleared.”“We don’t intend to tip our hand at this time,” Giesler, one I lt;-of the west’s best known criminal lawyers, added.At the preliminary hearing, the state must show sufficient evidence to warrant prosecution.“They need to create only a suspicion, which they’ll probably be able to do,” Giesler said.The state’s case may not be as simple as Giesler conceded forj preliminary hearing, Betty Hansen, the 17-year-old Lincoln, Neb., I gm with whom he allegedly had improper relations refused to testify against him.! Charges against Knapp were dismissed. Miss Hansen asked her I attorneys to tell Knapp she “was awful glad he got off.”The state’s complaint againstpreliminary hearing. Flynn has been based on allegedWhen Armand Knapp, 20-year- j improper conduct with both Miss old studio employe, charged with I Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, 17, statutory rape, appeared for his I nightclub entertainer.
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Lincoln Evening State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Fri, Oct 30, 1942
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