Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, however, she had already established a connection with the Hearst family. While at PIN, she had struck up a friendship with Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson, the black ex-convict who had formed the United Prisoners Union, dedicated to advancing prison reform. (He was gunned down in San Francisco on June 8 by unknown assassins.) Popeye, hinting at contacts with the S.L.A., approached Randolph Hearst with an offer to intercede for Patty's release. Sensing an opportunity, Moore managed to become the go-between in the dealings. It was a role that caught the attention of FBI agents, who thought...
...reason for the lack of control is that most informers never appear in court. They help to catch an offender, but are usually not needed to convict him. And when an informer does testify, courts tend not to be bothered if he is guilty of seamy behavior. In 1973 the Supreme Court swallowed substantial involvement by a federal agent in the manufacture of methamphetamine pep pills (speed) because the other plotter had demonstrated that he was already disposed to commit the crime. Actual entrapment, however, is banned. The only other major prohibition is against using an informer to infiltrate...
...color on television by millions of Americans. The viewers included the Hearsts, who feared that their daughter was in the building as it caught fire and burned to the ground. There were six charred bodies in the smoldering debris, including that of Donald D. DeFreeze, 30, an escaped black convict who called himself Cinque (pronounced Sin-Q) and was the main muscle behind the S.L.A. But Patty, with the Harrises, had managed to escape the shootout-and the nationwide hunt was on again...
Cleaver took another sip of red wine. He only drinks red wine, he said. All this red wine and soft talking lent to the image of the new Eldridge Cleaver, who is really quite a relaxed guy. Not at all what you'd expect of a former convict, rapist, Black Panther Minister of Information, best-selling author of Soul...
...much of Cleaver after he left that night in August, although they ran into his wife once and were startled to see her face covered by a big butterfly-wing bandage. "I bet Cleaver hit her," Bruce said later. That made Cleaver an even more confusing figure: rapist, convict, talented author, a man seeking to return to the country he denounced, a man promoting a pair of pants to give a new revelation to our sexuality...