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...Mendell, the gang last December broke into a vacant building near a police station in a seedy section of Chicago's Near North Side. With acetylene torches, they burned their way into a jewelry store next door, used an electronic device to circumvent a burglar alarm and stole more than $1 million worth of jewelry, silver and furs...
...Watergate Burglar Bernard Barker held a $10,000-a-year CETA job as a sanitation inspector, which he got on the recommendation of Miami City Commissioner Manolo Reboso. CETA also paid half of his tuition as an engineering student at Florida International University. CETA pays Barker's ex-wife Clara $14,000 a year as a clerk-typist and his present wife Maria $12,500 a year as a city sanitation inspector. Says Barker: "I think it is a wonderful program...
...then took a step that raised the case from a local incident to a French cause celebre: he filed suit against Legras, seeking $22,000 in damages. Even more galling, as many Frenchmen saw it, he nearly got his way. After a month-long dual trial, a court let Burglar Rousseau off with a two-month suspended sentence. As for Owner Legras, however, while no damages were assessed against him, he was declared guilty of using excessive force to defend his home. His sentence: eight months, suspended...
Generally, U.S. law permits "reasonable force" in self-defense, which usually means that life-threatening measures may not be used to protect property, only people. Indeed even when he is at home, a citizen takes a risk if he attacks a burglar; in such cases, the courts may consider whether the intruder was a fearsome marauder or just an unarmed teen-ager?and even whether the incident occurred by day or night. Explains Boston Criminal Attorney Joseph J. Balliro: "If you are in bed and the lights are out, and a man comes through the window and says...
...fault lies not with Hoffman's performance, but with the movie's narrow, spartan script. The screenwriters are so eager to avoid sentimentality that they turn journalistic objectivity into a form of dramatic Novocain. As we watch Burglar Max Dembo doggedly pursue his career of luckless crime, it is impossible to feel anything but numbness. Apparently the writers believe it is enough to demonstrate that Max is a classic recidivist, trapped forever in a cycle of antisocial behavior, but they can't get off so easily. A character as alienated as Max, however realistically drawn, becomes compelling...