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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 11, 1993                   TAG: 9308110123
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

MOCK TRIAL JURY FINDS ROSENBERGS INNOCENT

A mock trial jury found Julius and Ethel Rosenberg innocent Tuesday of plotting to give U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, in a colorful restaging of the "espionage trial of the century" that sent both to the electric chair.

The American Bar Association used real lawyers, a judge and a jury of ordinary citizens to re-create the 1951 trial, updated to today's legal standards.

The mock Rosenbergs said they were members of the Communist Party - the real ones took the Fifth Amendment on that question - but emphatically denied spying. - Associated Press

by CNB