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Overcrowding in jails has reinforced the trend toward leniency. A convict who escaped from prison last year and was subsequently recaptured was pleased to discover that his cell had been assigned to a newcomer. The former inmate was released in his own custody to await a jail vacancy. Each Friday in Amsterdam, a district attorney tours detention cells to determine who can be released to make room for more serious offenders...
Last year BLM Range Conservationist Walter Jakubowski persuaded authorities at the Colorado State Prison complex in Canon City to let convicts break the horses. Most of the inmates are city bred, and none have had equine experience. In one year the convict-cowboy program has tamed more than 400 mustangs. Another 350 horses are corralled at the prison to be trained at the rate of about ten a day. Most are only halter broken, rather than readied for saddlework...
Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh has already used that provision to convict two minor Iran-contra figures. Fund Raisers Carl Channell and Richard Miller have pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of tax money; the pair solicited supposedly deductible contributions for the entirely nondeductible purpose of buying weapons for the contras. In negotiations with congressional investigating committees, Walsh has left no doubt that conspiracy is the main charge he intends to bring against many more prominent people. Says a source close to Walsh's investigation: "Conspiracy could take in the whole picture." That was pretty much...
...have committed "any act to effect the object of the conspiracy." Thus the prosecutor does not have to focus on the narrow specifics of allegedly illegal acts; he can lay a long, complex story before the jury in its entirety. He can use the testimony of minor conspirators to convict more important figures; Channell and Miller have already named Oliver North as their co-conspirator. And in conspiracy cases a jury can weigh hearsay evidence...
...crime was so stunningly brutal that the years have done little to calm public outrage. Lawrence Singleton, 59, was convicted in 1979 of kidnaping and raping a 15-year-old hitchhiker, then chopping off her forearms with an ax. He left her to die in a culvert beside a rural Northern California road. But the girl survived the attack, managed to seek out assistance and later helped convict her tormentor. When Singleton was paroled two weeks ago, after serving nearly eight years of a 14-year, four-month sentence, local officials across the state took court action to ensure that...