THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS	Local Friday, August 29, 1997

But Einhorn, the '60s cult figure who spent most of the '80s and '90s running from the law, might not return to Philadelphia until the 21st century. The French extradition process, which will begin for Einhorn in Bordeaux, could take at least two years if he takes advantage of all appeals.

It's likely he will: Einhorn's Philadelphia attorney has said the aging hippie will fight the extradition.

Before his June arrest by French police, the graying, burly Einhorn spent four years living with his Swedish wife in a cottage in the tiny village of Champagne-Mouton, but he never managed to master French. An interpreter will be provided for him during next week's extradition hearing, said Norris Gelman, one of Einhorn's defense attorneys.

Einhorn, 57, is expected to argue he did not receive a fair trial in 1993 because he was tried in absentia. Philadelphia courts convicted Einhorn of the 1977 murder of his girlfriend, Helen ``Holly'' Maddux.

Maddux's body was discovered two years later, stuffed and rotting in a steamer trunk in a closet in Einhorn's Powelton Village apartment.

Einhorn was tried without being present because he fled Philadelphia in 1981, just before his trial was scheduled to begin in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court.

When captured in the French village of Champagne-Mouton, he was posing as an English writer named Eugene Mallon.

Philadelphia's case will be presented to the judge by a French prosecutor, Defos du Rau, not the district attorney's office.

The Bordeaux court must render an opinion in eight to 15 days after the hearing, French prosecutors said this week. If that court decides to send Einhorn home, he can appeal the decision to a higher court in Paris.

Operating much like an appeals court here, the Parisian court will decide whether the judge in Bordeaux made a sound legal decision. If that court doesn't go Einhorn's way, the fugitive can appeal again, this time to another French court with the same level of power as the court in Bordeaux, French lawyers said.

After that, an appeal by Einhorn would move the case out of the courts and into an administrative realm, where a final decision will be made by a committee.

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