Word: convicted
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Square Johns. As his lust for speed and adventure finally lessened, Sands settled into a series of jobs as a sales executive and sometimes as a song-and-dance entertainer. Though financially successful, Sands felt drawn back to prison to try to teach convicts something 80% of them fail to learn-how to stay out of prison once they are released. Making ends meet by part-time work as a writer and speaker, Sands has been crisscrossing the U.S. for the past three years, addressing convict audiences and setting up rehabilitation programs in prison...
...problem, Sands holds, is to unscramble the convict's twisted values of what is smart and what is dumb. "I've been a con, as smart and tough as they come," he tells the prisoners, "but I'm not a wise guy any more. All the wise guys I know are in here-the smartest ones of all didn't even come to the show, they're in the hole. They call guys like me square Johns, dummies. Yeah. All us square Johns are on the outside...
...court, Stratton often acted more like a candidate than a potential convict, waving to friends, shaking hands all around, and at one point drawing a rebuke from Judge Hubert L. Will for "grimacing, smiling, gesticulating." Warned Judge Will, in a somewhat inept classical allusion: "I don't want you sitting there like a sphinx, but I don't want you playing Hamlet either." Yet for all the histrionics, the basics of the trial consisted of two questions intimately related to American politics: What constitutes a political contribution? What constitutes a political expense...
...Brooklyn, ex-Convict George Maldonado had apparently never heard of the old legal maxim that "the man who defends himself has a fool for a client." "Your Honor, I don't feel that this man, in eight or ten minutes, can defend me," Maidonado protested, after a court had assigned a Legal Aid Society lawyer to handle his latest trial for burglary. "I want to act as my own attorney." The judge refused the request. Maldonado wound up in Sing Sing prison. But U.S District Judge Charles H. Tenney granted Maldonado a conditional writ of habeas corpus...
...personal experience, drawled Black from the bench, "I come from a part of the country where now and then they had some stills, but I never thought that if I was unlucky enough to be caught around there, hunting birds or something, my presence would be enough to convict...