{"id":114962,"date":"2022-06-16T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114962"},"modified":"2022-07-20T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T21:43:04","slug":"apr-2-1980-1825-georgetown-state-1506","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114962","title":{"rendered":"Apr 2, 1980 \u2022 1825 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 1506"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[<b>Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114962\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=105112\">Serial 2433<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>0 R 021825Z APR 80<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2116<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY BOGOTA<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1506<br \/>\nCA\/OCS ATTN: REED CLARKE<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CARR, GY (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE) (LAYTON, LAURENCE J.) (BEIKMAN, CHARLES E.)<br \/>\nSUBJ: JUDICIAL ACTIVITY APRIL 1, 1980<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 1436<\/p>\n<p>1. AS REPORTED REFTEL, LAYTON TRIAL HAS BEEN ADJOURNED UNTIL MAY 5, 1980. BASED ON CONVERSATIONS WITH VARIOUS SOURCES, IT APPEARS THAT LARRY LAYTON IS DETERMINED TO PLEAD NOT GUILTY WHILE HIS LAWYER APPEARS TO BELIEVE THAT A GUILTY PLEA TO ONE OR MORE LESSER COUNTS WOULD BE THE BEST COURSE.<\/p>\n<p>2. CHARLES BEIKMAN WAS PUT ON TRIAL MORNING APRIL 1 WITH NO NOTICE TO EMBASSY. HE PLEADED GUILTY TO A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER. CONSUL ATTENDED AFTERNOON SESSION AT HIGH COURT. THE TIME WAS TOTALLY OCCUPIED BY THE DEFENSE PLEAS OF MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES. AS THE SESSION CONCLUDED, THE PROSECUTION PASSED ON AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A FINAL STATEMENT. THE JUDGE RESERVED DECISION ON SENTENCING UNTIL TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 8. IT IS CLEAR THAT A DEAL HAS BEEN STRUCK, BUT WE ARE UNABLE TO GET A FIRM FIX ON THE YET-TO-BE ANNOUNCED SENTENCE. CONSUL\u2019S<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 01506 021847Z<\/p>\n<p>BEST GUESS IS THAT IT WILL FALL SOMEWHERE BETWEEN TIME SERVED AND THREE YEARS.<\/p>\n<p>3. THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS HAS APOLOGIZED FOR THE SLIP UP THAT RESULTED IN OUR ABSENCE FROM COURT THE MORNING OF APRIL 1.<\/p>\n<p>ROBERTS [George B. Roberts, Jr., American ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 2433 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.] 0 R 021825Z APR 80 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2116 INFO AMEMBASSY BOGOTA UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1506 CA\/OCS ATTN: REED CLARKE E.O. 12065: NA TAGS: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":114906,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114962","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117093,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114962\/revisions\/117093"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}