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

DATE: TUESDAY, July 24, 1990                   TAG: 9007240253
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

CREDIBILITY OF BARRY WITNESS HIT

Marion Barry's lawyers Monday attacked the credibility of an admitted cocaine dealer who said she delivered crack to the mayor at a municipal office in 1988.

Barry's lawyers said at his cocaine and perjury trial that the mayor has an alibi for the time of the alleged delivery Sept. 7, 1988. Prosecutors contend Barry's alibi is non-existent.

Testifying for the defense, city employee Clifton Roberson said he accepted a job application from Lydia Pearson on Sept. 7, 1988.

Pearson testified earlier in Barry's trial that she handed the mayor "crack cocaine. . . . He gave me the money for it. . . . I gave him" the job application.

- Associated Press

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