The Nation - News from Aug. 5, 1985

Arthur J. Walker, 50, will be the first of four men arrested in the Walker family-and-friend Navy spy case to go on trial when he faces U.S. District Judge J. Calvitt Clarke today in Norfolk, Va. Samuel Meekins, Walker’s lead defense attorney, said the decision for the judge to hear the case rather than having a jury trial was made in a meeting of attorneys for Walker, prosecutors and Clarke. It would have taken two to three days to select a 12-member panel, Meekins said. Walker’s brother, John A. Walker Jr., 47, and John’s son, Michael Lance Walker, 22, are to stand trial in the case in Baltimore on Oct. 28. A fourth defendant, Jerry A. Whitworth, 45, is to go on trial in San Francisco on Aug. 26.