Word: convicted
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RELEASED. Gary Dotson, 28, convict serving a 25- to 50-year sentence for a 1977 rape; on $100,000 bond while Illinois authorities consider his plight; from the state penitentiary at Joliet. The trial judge had freed Dotson on bail five weeks ago, then decided that the recantation of his supposed victim, Cathleen Crowell Webb, was not sufficiently believable and returned him to prison after a week. Said Dotson after he left prison: "I feel like a pinball...
...jury that Von Bulow tried to murder Sunny because of the $14 million he stood to inherit and because his mistress, Alexandra Isles, had threatened to leave him if he did not marry her. Isles, a socialite and former soap-opera actress whose dramatic testimony may have helped convict her ex-lover the first time around, has apparently left the country, and no one seems sure whether she will reappear...
...Rain of Terror proves the power of simple storytelling. Its two characters never move from their ratty old sofa; one hardly speaks. The tale they relate has already reached its resolution, and its outcome is revealed almost immediately. Yet the description of the calculated murder of an escaped convict by a greedy old woman (Kathy Bates) and her submissive husband (Andy Backer) is spellbinding. Credit belongs in equal measure to Playwright Frank Manley and to the brilliant Bates, who reveals a deadly malevolence with matter-of-fact simplicity...
...Event might have come from a pocket in Gogol's Overcoat. In a provincial village of czarist Russia, a portrait painter and his unfaithful wife fearfully await an ex-convict who once threatened them with violence. Again an ambiguous reality intrudes: a character remembers being told, "I and my brother were played by one and the same actor, only in the part of my brother he was good, and in mine he was bad." In a central scene the principals remain themselves, but some of the supporting cast become painted representations...
...case a "judicial lynching." Says Joseph Kelner: "Mr. Morgenthau has been highly pressured by politicians who see gain in this for themselves. If he has a new witness, you have to wonder why they pop up now." Arguing that there is a tacit conspiracy among officials to convict his client in the court of public opinion, Kelner cites the decision this month to release a brooding confession Goetz made when he surrendered at a Concord, N.H., police station nine days after the shootings. "He's being turned from a crime victim into a criminal," says Kelner. Goetz...