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VA Hearing Is Postponed By Weather

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Ann Arbor News, January 10, 1977
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1977
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VA Hearing Is Postponed By Weather

DETROIT — Inclement weather and poor driving conditions delayed until Tuesday a pretrial hearing in the Ann Arbor VA Hospital murder case.

Defense attorneys for two women accused of mass patient murders at the hospital last summer were to have presented closing arguments on a crucial motion to suppress a key government witness’ testimony at the upcoming trial.

Those arguments are to be heard Tuesday morning, according to a last-minute ruling today by U.S. District Court Judge Philip Pratt.

The defendants in the case, Leonora Perez, 32, of Ann Arbor, and Filipina B. Narciso, 30, of Ypsilanti are charged with five counts of first-degree murder and 10 counts each of poisoning hospital patients in a series of breathing failures and deaths which occurred in the Fuller Road hospital between July 1 and Aug. 15,1975.