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Obituaries Bill Millin, 88, played bagpipes to boost British troops’ morale during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. B4


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Defending history Muslim leaders travel with prominent Jews to Nazi concentration camps in an effort to combat Holocaust denial that has surfaced in recent years. B2


MARYLAND


Officer charged with assault Montgomery policeman is indicted on an assault charge after hitting a suspect on the head with a baton. The resulting administrative leave was the officer’s second in five months. B3


Judge to rule on Cuccinelli probe


of climate study LONG-AWAITED SHOWDOWN


Attorney general seeking documents from U-Va.


by Anita Kumar


charlottesville — A team of lawyers for Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, a vocal skeptic of global warming, went to court Friday to further his investiga- tion into whether former Univer- sity of Virginia professor Michael Mann manipulated data to show that there has been a rapid, re- cent rise in the Earth’s temperature. Lawyers from the at-


MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST Jean Pierre with his 2008 Dodge Challenger, which he was driving when he was arrested for speeding more than 30 mph over the limit.


Speeding got him more than a ticket Driver with health issues blasts police for treatment during 15 hours in custody


by Mary Pat Flaherty Jean Pierre says he knows


what he saw and what annoyed him so much that he decided to pass the black Crown Victoria along Interstate 295 in the mid- dle of the afternoon: It was a driver who had a cellphone pinned between his ear and


shoulder, moving slower than the rest of traffic and straying be- tween lanes.


But Pierre, 62, says it was what he didn’t see that got him in so much trouble — and ultimately resulted in him spending a mis- erable 15 hours in police custody. The driver he passed was As- sistant Chief Rodney Parks of the D.C. police, who then pursued


and pulled over Pierre on June 4, before another veteran officer ar- rived and arrested Pierre for speeding more than 30 mph over the limit, according to court rec- ords.


Pierre wants to make it clear


that it wasn’t the speeding cita- tion that angered him. He earned that. The Fort Washington resi- dents drives a 2008 Dodge Chal-


lenger that he acknowledges is “fast.”


“I sped. I was irritated. I take responsibility for that,” Pierre said, though he contests that he was driving 110 mph in a 50 mph zone.


What Pierre objects to was his handling during 15 hours in cus-


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torney general’s office said the climate scien- tist might have en- gaged in fraud by pur- posely designing his well-known “hockey- stick” graph to show global warming or in- cluding manipulated research on his cur- riculum vitae, which he submitted for grants. Deputy Attorney General Wes-


Mann and his research assistants, secretaries and 39 other scien- tists across the country. U-Va. is fighting back, arguing that the demand exceeds Cuccinelli’s au- thority under state law and in- trudes on the rights of professors to pursue academic inquiry free from political pressure. Albemarle Circuit Court Judge


Paul Peatross took the matter un- der advisement, saying he would rule within 10 days. “It’s frankly offensive to be at-


tacked by a sitting attorney gen- eral in a state I know and love,’’ Mann said in a phone interview after the hearing. “These charges continue to be made by climate- change deniers. There is no grounds whatsoever for the claims they are making.” The long-awaited


Ken Cuccinelli II is a vocal skeptic of global warming.


ley G. Russell Jr., who argued the case on Cuccinelli’s behalf, said there was a possibility of a “con- sistent pattern of manipulation of data.” But attorneys for the university


say other investigations found no wrongdoing by Mann, who did not attend Friday’s hearing. Cuccinelli issued a civil investi-


gative demand, essentially a sub- poena, for documents from U-Va. for five grant applications Mann prepared and all e-mail between


courtroom showdown between Cuccinelli and Virginia’s flagship university drew a packed house. Cucci- nelli, who is suing the Environmental Protec- tion Agency over glob- al warming, has denied that he is seeking the documents because of Mann’s scientific find- ings. He did not appear


in Charlottesville on Friday but issued a brief statement. “The attorney general is the


sole official charged with enforc- ing Virginia’s Fraud Against Tax- payers Act,’’ he said. “Our office is investigating whether a false claim was presented to the uni- versity to secure payment under government-funded grants — nothing more, nothing less.” Russell argued that the attor-


ney general’s office is allowed to have the documents because they


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Air crash victim’s


love of life


recalled Ex-Senate staffer among those who died with Stevens


by Derek Kravitz T


he Germantown man and former Senate staff- er who died this month in an Alaska plane crash was remembered


Friday as a towering and gregari- ous family man who would have been grateful for his youngest son’s survival in the accident. William D. “Bill” Phillips Sr., 56,


a lawyer and lobbyist at the D.C. law firm of Utrecht & Phillips, was killed Aug. 9 when the plane car- rying him and eight others crashed into a remote hillside northwest of Dillingham, Alaska. The group, including former sen- ator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), had set out on a salmon fishing trip in a 1957 DeHavilland floatplane. Phillips was traveling with his


13-year-old son, William “Willy” Phillips Jr., who was among four survivors. Willy, an eighth-grader at Mater Dei School in Bethesda, attended Friday’s funeral in a wheelchair and had casts on his left arm and left leg. He didn’t speak at the service at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Poto- mac, and he followed his father’s coffin out of the church with his


Md. officials skeptical as Pepco


outlines plan on power outages Utility proposes steps to reduce frequency, duration of disruptions


Pepco, under fire for power by Annys Shin Public officials in Maryland


who have sharply criticized Pep- co’s response to storms are ques- tioning the effectiveness of the utility company’s new plan to re- duce the frequency and duration of power outages.


outages during winter and sum- mer storms, on Thursday re- leased a plan that it expects to im- plement over five years at a cost of $256.3million. The six-point reliability plan includes more tree trimming — part of what Pepco refers to as “enhanced vegetation manage- ment” — the replacement of some underground cables and selective changes to substations. Long- standing programs, such as eval- uating the need to upgrade feeder


lines, make up much of the plan, which would expand on some of those efforts, such as upgrading underground cables. The two major initiatives in- volve placing selected wires underground and changing sub- station supply lines. “Putting an entire circuit underground is cost prohibitive, but if you can identify the portion of the line that is contributing to the largest problem and under-


pepco continued on B6 Chandra Levy judge shields jury pool IDs


Salvadoran suspect’s attorneys sought proof Hispanics were in pool


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William “Willy” Phillips Jr. is pushed in a wheelchair by a friend after the funeral for Willy’s father, William D. Phillips Sr.


mother, Janet Phillips, while holding her hand. Phillips’s three older sons


spoke. Andrew Phillips, a fifth- year senior at Stanford University, said his father died as he lived: “with no frills and no presump- tions.” He also praised brother Willy for “acting like a hero.” “Willy, the way you acted under these circumstances is truly phe- nomenal,” Andrew said. Phillips’s three older sons are all Division I football players and


Georgetown Preparatory School graduates. Colter is a sophomore at the University of Virginia, and Paul is a freshman at Indiana Uni- versity. The schedules for the three college teams were included in the back of the funeral program with a message from the family encouraging people to attend their games. Hundreds crowded into the church for the two-hour service,


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by Keith L. Alexander Attorneys for a Salvadoran im-


migrant charged with killing federal intern Chandra Levy may not examine the last names of potential ju- rors to determine whether the pool is likely to include His- panics, a D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Fri- day. The ruling was a set- back for the lawyers representing Ingmar Guandique, who have argued that their client


cannot get a fair trial in the Dis- trict if there are no Hispanics on the jury.


Guandique, 28, who is in the


country illegally, was arrested last year and charged with six counts, including first-degree murder, kidnapping, robbery and sexual abuse, in connection with Levy’s 2001 dis- appearance and slay- ing. Levy’s remains were found in Rock Creek Park a year after she went missing. Guandique’s attor-


Ingmar Guan- dique is accused of killing intern Chandra Levy.


neys requested that court officials release the surnames of po- tential jurors so that they could be com- pared against the 2000 Census to deter- mine whether the names are of Latino


origin. They wanted to make sure that the pool of potential ju- rors included Latinos, and they were seeking the list of names the court generally uses before issuing jury summonses. That list is generated from various public records, including ones for driver’s licenses, motor vehi- cle and voter registrations, and public assistance. Prosecutors objected to the re- quest, calling it a “delay tactic” and a “fishing expedition.” In denying the request, Judge


Gerald I. Fisher said that re- leasing the names would not help identify qualified, Hispanic jurors. Also, he said, releasing the names would not help identi- fy those jurors who are 18 or old- er, legal residents of the District, and able to speak and read Eng-


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