
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 9, 1990                   TAG: 9005090577
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
SOURCE: By Monica Davey
DATELINE: BEDFORD                                LENGTH: Short

SOERING NEWS STORIES SOUGHT

Jens Soering's attorneys on Tuesday asked for subscriber lists and stories related to the Soering case from newspapers that circulate in Nelson County.

Circuit Court Judge William Sweeney ruled last week that jurors from Nelson County will hear Soering's trial for the 1985 slayings of his girlfriend's parents.

The judge had approved a defense motion that Soering, 23, not be tried by a Bedford County jury because of publicity surrounding the slashing deaths of Nancy and Derek Haysom.

The subpoena request, filed by attorney William Cleaveland, may be the first step in preparation for a defense objection to Sweeney's decision to try Soering with a jury from Nelson County. Some newspapers that have printed stories about the case are sold there.

Cleaveland requested the information by May 23 from the Daily Progress of Charlottesville, The News & Daily Advance of Lynchburg, the Charlottesville-Albermarle Observer, the Nelson County Times and the News-Virginian of Waynesboro. Soering's trial is scheduled to begin June 1.

Cleaveland also sought any editorials, stories, pictures or letters printed in the papers since 1985 about Soering's case, the Haysom deaths or Elizabeth Haysom, Soering's girlfriend who in 1987 pleaded guilty to participating in the killings.

by CNB