Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Indiana convict has become a top jailhouse lawyer...
...personal 3,000-volume library.) Charging $7.50 an hour, Owen easily undercuts the $22 to $25 fees asked by law students and young lawyers, who are often hired for such chores. Yet Owen's output is anything but cut-rate. Indianapolis Lawyer J. Richard Kiefer calls the convict's research "incredibly good.'' Once Kiefer gave the same project to Owen and several law students; Owen was the first to uncover the three precedents that Kiefer needed. Says John Gubbins, senior staff attorney for the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago: "In the area...
Owen occasionally has been allowed, at the judges' discretion, to appear in court on behalf of his prisoner clients. He usually shows up wearing handcuffs and a yellow leisure suit, his papers in a briefcase made by a fellow convict. In 1978, he won freedom for Elisar Yzaguirre, who was serving a life sentence for kidnaping, when he persuaded the judge to downgrade his client's offense to unlawful confinement. Such victories have helped Owen compile a record that many an appellate attorney would envy: in 25% of his cases, the clients have won at least some relief...
Anne Young, who voted with other members of the jury to convict Dr. Eugene Sherry, and Dr. Arif Hussain, former clinical fellows in anaesthesia at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Connecticut doctor Alan Lefkowitz, of rape, told a press conference that the jurors had hoped to "punish" the defendants for "having done something wrong, but not for the crime of rape...
...retrospect, it seems grossly unfair to convict anyone on any charge unless that charge is fully understood." Young added