Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, November 15, 1990, Page 12, Image 12

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    UNIVERSITY
Man in jail for refusing to answer questions in lab probe
By Bob Waite
Emerald Reporter
A Kugene resident is being
held in a Six ramento County
l.iil (or not < rtoperating with a
federal grand itiry investiga
tion
Hunrv Hutto. :t7. is refusing
to answer questions about
crimes < ommitled in the name
of the animal rights movement
The grand jury is investigat
ing crimes at the University an
imal lab in lotto, an arson fin
al the University of California
at Davis veterinary sciences
building, and similar crimes .it
other universities
The Animal Liberation Front,
•in animal rights ac tivist group,
has a< i epted responsibility for
the ( rimes
Damage to the University,
where 125 animals were stolen
and research equipment and
experiments were destroyed,
was e s t i m a t e d at a bo n t
$.18,500 Arson damage at the
Davis veterinary m ien< es build
ing was eslimated at $4 ti mil
lion
Californians )onathan C
Mark Paul. 24 and William
lames Keogh 41. pleaded not
guilts to < barges filed against
them in Lane County Circuit
Court Oct 14 Cresen/.o Velluci
Jr . -to, also of Sacramento,
pleaded not guilty last Friday
Warrants for the arrest of the
three were issued based on evi
dence gained at the Sacramento
Crand Jury hearings, said Kar
en Tracey, an attorney at tin:
I ante County Distric t Attorney's
office
All three are charged with
burglary, theft and criminal
mischief.
Paul and Keogh voluntarily
appeared before the l.ane Coun
ty Crand Jury. Sacramento po
lice arrested Vclluci on a fugi
tive warrant last month. The
three were released after plead
ing in nor enl.
Hutto. 17. is among about a
citizen animal rights activists
who have been subpoenaed anti
refused to testif\ in Sacramen
to
Dame Sontag. Hutto's wife,
said neither she nor Hutto are
members of the Al.F. but said
Hutto tails himself an animal
rights activist
“Henry is in jail with no
charges being filed against
him. no trial, and no opportu
nity to lie released on bail.''
Sontag said
“Like people during the
McOirthv period, he refused to
name names." Hutto's attor
ney. Mark Merin told the Sncm
mmto Bet•
••He feels il is an invasion of
Ins right to privacy He is
standing on his first, fifth and
fourth amendment rights,”
Sontag said The grand jury
system is able to thwart those
rights by putting him in jail."
Hutto could be jailed from 1H
to .}(> months for refusing to tes
tify. Sontag said.
According to The Sacramen
to Union, activists have assert
ed that their telephones have
lieen tapped and their homes
have been broken into since the
investigation began. The 1H
month investigation is expect
ed to conclude at the end of the
year.
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