New County Grand Jury Selected

Twenty-one men and two women were selected Friday to serve on the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, which primarily investigates government agencies.

The panelists were selected from a pool of 40 people drawn randomly in April from 157 nominations made by Superior Court judges. Of the 40, 10 did not show up at the drawing and one said he could not serve because of family commitments.

The 23-member jury and four alternates will be installed at a ceremony July 5.

Nominees are assigned numbers that correspond to numbers on cubes, which are spun or shaken in a wheel or box and picked randomly by the court clerk. The process is carefully monitored to avoid fraud or favoritism.

Because the jury must serve for a full year, most of those selected are retired or work part time. The grand jury primarily examines county and governmental agencies to review their performance, and occasionally considers evidence for possible indictment of people accused of crimes.

All of the jurors are retired except for Jerry Santana, a part-time security officer from Azusa, Denzil Morrissey, a self-employed Whittier resident, and businessman Mayfield Marshall Jr. of La Canada.

Other jurors selected include: Sidney Dwoskin, a former county probation worker of Los Angeles; Roger Ayers of Palos Verdes Estates; Johnnie Raines of Los Angeles; James Hart of Rancho Palos Verdes; Robert Lamb, former accounting manager of Los Angeles; Frank Kelker of Los Angeles, and Joseph Baranoff, a former public accountant of Pacific Palisades.

Also selected to the jury were: Marguerite Cerny of Los Angeles; Emma Fischbeck, a housewife from West Covina; Robert Leland of Burbank; Daniel Strauss of Woodland Hills; Samuel Sherwin of Los Angeles; Louis Brutocao of Covina; Mario Negri, a former bank vice president of Hollywood; Lawrence Keller of Van Nuys; Hyman Resnick of Los Angeles; Amat Barcelon of Santa Fe Springs; John Gerletti, a former USC professor of South Pasadena; Danny Elias of Los Angeles, and Cecil Greenwold, a former executive of Los Angeles.

Selected as alternates were Marvin Crayton of Claremont; George Ogawa of Torrance; Margaret Kogut of Woodland Hills, and Dorothy Keye of Palos Verdes Estates.