Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chaos of the Attica uprising last September, one of the most extraordinary characters to emerge as a convict leader was a scarred but eloquent West Indian named Herbert X. Blyden. Last week his lawyers appeared in a Manhattan federal court for a new round in Blyden's long battle to overturn his 1965 robbery conviction. TIME'S James Willwerth visited him in prison and reported Blyden's tale of his continuing war with...
...Case Load, the climax-and a neat one it is-comes when Detective Hamilton, desperate to solve a case. frames and murders a suspect he had concluded was innocent. The victim is actually guilty, and Hamilton gets away with the crime. But Author-Convict Johnson knows that that is an unimportant detail. Whether Hamilton actually goes to prison for his crime matters only to society. For each man, there is prison enough in himself...
...streets of Los Angeles in the middle of the depression the gamine is nearly arrested, until the gallant Chaplin recently released from jail, takes the rap. Chaplin takes us to jail with him, but only for the immortal nose-power scene is which the poor convict comes across a bit of cocaine and begins a series of pirouettes. Eventually, Chaplin encounters the gamine again in a paddy wagon from which they blissfully escape together...
Fugitive Timothy Leary, 51-onetime Harvard psychologist, onetime drug-culture guru, onetime convict in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and onetime member of Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver's expatriate flock in Algiers-may have found a resting place at last. Swiss authorities have rejected U.S. demands that Leary be extradited to serve out the rest of his ten-year California sentence for possession of marijuana. The Swiss felt, as one official put it, that ten years was much too stiff a penalty for "finding two marijuana butts in the ashtray of a car that did not even belong...
...Battis) and Marshall (John Cazale), verbally dominate the play, like stinging tarantulas. On a certain level, Storey has drawn a scathing portrait of the welfare state prole. But Storey never withdraws his compassion from any of these men. When the foreman, Kay (John Braden), is exposed as an ex-convict, and another workman is mocked because his wife deserted him for his impotence, Storey fills each man's eyes with a scalding, terrible hurt. The wedding never takes place; the tent has been erected in vain...