The Region - News from Feb. 12, 1985
An attorney for former Howard Hughes aide John Herbert Meier claimed that two prosecutors involved in the case believe that Meier should not be tried for the 1974 Beverly Hills murder with which he is charged. The attorney, Earl T. Durham, made the claim in court papers, stating that Deputy Dist. Attys. Robert Schirn and Michael Tranbarger “were of the opinion (that) the charges against John Meier should be dismissed.†In an interview, Tranbarger said, “That’s not my opinion.†Schirn would neither confirm nor deny the accuracy of Durham’s statement. Meier is charged with arranging the stabbing death of Alfred Wayne Netter, an officer of a struggling Canadian company trying to market then-new videotape technology.
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