Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crack the computer code governing Internal Revenue Service audits. Since prisoners must file tax returns on any outside income, some saw a golden opportunity. Knowing how to hoodwink the computer, they loaded their returns with all kinds of bogus claims for refunds, with little fear of being audited. One convict was finally caught. Last week he went on trial for receiving $20,000 in illegal refunds. Others are sure to follow him to the dock, since the total rip-off could range anywhere from $150,000 to $6 million. Back to making license plates...
Just Joy Riding. Bill Harris did argue his cause to the jury in a closing statement, however, saying the Government is "trying to convict us for our beliefs." For his part, Weinglass contended that the Government had not proved its case. The Harrises, he said, were not guilty of the shooting since Patty was not authorized to use guns by the S.L.A. He also claimed that taking the four vans and cars was more like joy riding than stealing, and that the two owners had been taken along without intent to kidnap. This last argument, especially, was fairly flimsy stuff...
...Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, where the longest trial in California history is expected to go to the jury next week. The case involves the so-called San Quentin Six,* who are accused of taking part in a 1971 prison breakout attempt that left Black Militant Convict George Jackson dead, along with three guards and two inmate trusties. Their trial may well mark the final effort to exorcize the specter of Jackson from the Marin courthouse. In 1970 the same building was the scene of the kidnap-shootout that Jackson's brother Jonathan hoped would force George...
...executions are immediately in prospect, but the Governors of Florida, Georgia and Texas are all known to favor capital punishment. Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, was disconsolate about the court's action and pledged to continue fighting for each condemned convict. But he admitted that "we don't hold out much hope." The death sentence has not been carried out in the U.S. sAice 1967.* That moratorium may not last through its tenth year...
Dershowitz is also claiming that it is unfair to convict Reems of conspiracy since he had no interest in the film's distribution...