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[Judge Older asked Manson if he had anything further to say.] I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed. I may have implied on several different occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am. Some called him Christ, Manson said. In prison his name was a ...
In the annals of crime, there might never have been a more bizarre motive for killing than that revealed in the 1970-71 trial of four Manson "Family" members. In the twisted mind of thirty-four-year-old Charles Manson, a wave of bloody killings of high-society types in Los Angeles would be the spark that would set off a revolution by blacks ...
Judge Charles Older, born on September 29, 1917 in Hanford, California, was the no nonsense judge in the Charles Manson murder trial. Older earned a degree in political science from the University of California Los Angeles in 1939 and later graduated from University of Southern California law school. He died on June 17, 2006 at the age of 88 of ...
- Atkins Reverses Course
- A "Helter Skelter" Scheme
- Case Draws Presidential Remark
- Manson Speaks
- Jury Convicts All Defendants
- Suggestions For Further Reading
Prosecutors lost Atkins' cooperation in March 1970, three months before the case came to trial. After a short meeting with Manson in jail, she retracted her confession and declared that she had invented the story implicating him, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten before the grand jury. Although the four "Family" members were to be tried together, the pros...
Kasabian explained Manson's bizarre scenario for "Helter Skelter," a scheme to capitalize on a race war between black and white Americans, which he believed was imminent. Manson expected blacks to win, find themselves incapable of governing, and ultimately turn to him for leadership. The Tate and LaBianca murders were committed to provoke the Helte...
Kanarek's interruptions of Kasabian's testimony were so incessant that Judge Older sentenced him to a night in jail for contempt. Kasabian was about to be cross-examined when the trial was shaken by comment from an unexpected source. President Richard M. Nixon told reporters in Denver, Colorado, Manson was "guilty, directly or indirectly of eight m...
The impasse was broken when Manson was allowed to speak without the jury present. He gave an angry hour-long statement proclaiming his innocence and condemning society for persecuting him. When he was finished, he told "the girls" not to testify. As both sides prepared their summations during a Thanksgiving recess, Leslie Van Houten's attorney, Ron...
Manson and his co-defendants were found guilty on January 25, 1971. Under California law, a second trial or "penalty phase" before the same jury then began to determine sentencing. Atkins took the stand and accused Kasabian, not Manson, of ordering the murders. Van Houten and Krenwinkel admitted taking part in the slayings but denied Manson's invol...
Bishop, George. Witness To Evil.Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1971. Bugliosi, Vincent, with Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. New York. W.W. Norton & Co., 1974. Caldwell, Earl. "Manson Co-Defendants Allowed to Testify After Defense Rests." New York Times(November 20, 1970): 22. Watson, Tex. Will You Die For Me?Old T...
Jun 21, 2006 · Judge Older died of complications from a fall at his home in Los Angeles, said longtime friend and former law partner Edward Cazier. "He presided over the trial in a very firm, dignified way, and ...
Older served for 20 years before retiring. His most famous case was the Charles Manson trial. [5] The trial lasted 10 months, the longest in American history at the time. Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi praised Older for his firm, but fair, handling of the difficult case. At one point, Manson tried to attack the judge and had to be restrained by ...
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Delivered by Vincent Bugliosi. Los Angeles, California, January 15, 1971. Your Honor, defense counsel, ladies, and gentlemen: As you know, the defendants Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel are charged with the five Tate murders occurring on August the ninth, 1969, and they are charged with the murders of Leno and Rosemary ...
