SPIELBERG CALLED RAPE TARGET.Byline: Associated Press A stalker obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with Hollywood director Steven Spielberg intended to handcuff and rape him, a prosecutor alleged in transcripts of closed grand jury proceedings released Wednesday. Jonathan Norman, 29, faces trial Jan. 13 on a stalking charge. Details of the case had been under seal. The documents detail allegations made by Deputy District Attorney Rhonda Saunders and others to the grand jury in October. In her opening statement, Saunders told the panel that Norman admitted ``this obsession with raping'' Spielberg after he was caught several times near the director's Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). property last summer. At the time of Norman's arrest last summer near Spielberg's home, the suspect identified himself as Spielberg's adopted son, the prosecutor said. Security personnel who testified before the grand jury said Norman was carrying a box-cutter blade, razor blades, duct tape, handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. and a key. Authorities said two more pairs of handcuffs were in the vehicle he was driving. Detective Paul Allen Wright testified that Norman also had a day planner with a ``shopping list'' of items, including three eye masks, cuffs, four pairs of nipple clippers and three dog collars that he planned to use in raping Spielberg. Wright also said the list included chloroform chloroform (klôr`əfôrm) or trichloromethane (trī'klôrōmĕth`ān), CHCl3 and a shocker shock·er n. One that startles, shocks, or horrifies, as a sensational story or novel. Noun 1. shocker - a shockingly bad person bad person - a person who does harm to others 2. . The documents were released after a hearing Wednesday in which several news organizations requested they be made public, said Sandi Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
Asked to comment on release of the court papers, Spielberg spokesman Marvin Levy said: ``Neither he nor I want to make a comment.'' |
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