Word: conviction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three men were killed. (One white prisoner was hit in the groin by a ricocheting bullet.) A black man shouted to the guard that he wanted to take one of the wounded to the hospital, but the guard gestured with his rifle, telling him to stay away. The wounded convict, shot in the leg, bled to death on the concrete floor of the exercise yard. In letters that were written long before this "incident," George Jackson tells us that he always stays near the wall in the exercise yard, to have some cover when the firing starts; for when...
From photographs taken by a camera in the bank, police identified one of the robbers as Robert Valeri, an ex-convict. Arrested that evening, Valeri in turn named Susan Saxe, a graduate of Brandeis University, near Boston, and Stanley Bond and William Gilday Jr., both ex-convicts, as other members of the holdup gang. He also implicated Katherine Power, a student activist at Brandeis, as a fifth member of the band. When police searched her apartment, they found evidence that seemed to link her to the fire-bombing and robbery of a National Guard armory in Newburyport, Mass., the previous...
...four additional suspects are: William "Lefty" Gilday, 41, a June parolee from Walpole who like Valeri was scheduled to enroll in Northeastern University this fall; Stanley R. Bond, 26, another ex-convict from Walpole who entered Brandeis last February on the special prison STEP program; Kathy Power, 21, a Brandeis senior active in the national student strike center there through the spring and summer; and Susan Saxe, 21, a June graduate of Brandeis, magna cum laude in American and English Literature...
...carry himself like a retired welterweight who might be thinking of a comeback, though he now pushed a bank clerk's belly. Age had performed interesting surgery on his face: cast him as a cab-driver, Chicago alderman, Irish cop, dart-champion in a workingman's pub, sly old convict; his face, like that of the late Everett Dirksen, told something of where he had been. Styron's face was a gentle mystery. Smooth for its forty-five years, it had of late come to look maybe a touch soft-trough so unblemished you wondered if his secret picture, like...
...Warren Kimbro and George Sams) was, in my opinion, highly subject to doubt. Lonnie McLucas' trial is only the first of a series of trials of Panthers charged with conspiracy in the murder of Alex Rackley, a series of trials which seems intended to culminate in an attempt to convict Bobby Seale. The State of Connecticut's apparent desire to convict Bobby Seale influenced the handling of the Prosecution's case at Lonnie McLucas' trial...