The State - News from May 30, 1986

Moments after suffering the latest in a series of losing courtroom battles with the prosecution, defense lawyers for former FBI agent Richard W. Miller rested their case--without calling Miller to testify on his own behalf. The conclusion of the defense case in Miller’s espionage retrial came after U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon ruled that a military affairs writer from Mechanicsburg, Pa., William Kennedy, was not qualified to testify as an expert witness on Soviet KGB recruitment of American spies. Kenyon ruled after U.S. Atty. Robert C. Bonner established that Kennedy had never made a special study of KGB recruitment practices or testified before as an expert witness. The defense presented 31 witnesses during 24 days of testimony in Miller’s second trial. The first 13 days were devoted to the testimony of convicted Soviet spy Svetlana Ogorodnikova, who was arrested along with her husband, Nikolai, and Miller on charges of conspiring to pass secret FBI documents to the Soviet Union.