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...attempting to topple the Greek military regime, had requested a temporary suspension of his sentence for reasons of health. After doctors testified that he was in danger of losing his eyesight, the judges granted an eight-month remission of the prison term. Mangakis, after all, was no ordinary convict: a German-educated Greek university professor, he is regarded as a world authority on penal...
Afterward, Juror Lawrence Evans, a supermarket owner, claimed that he was one of only two jury members who held out for a conviction. Asked if some jurors were influenced by the religious calling of the defendants, he said: "Yes. Some felt they could do no wrong. They were really prejudiced." Juror Vera Thompson, a Carlisle, Pa., stock clerk, allowed that Boyd Douglas, the Government's star witness, was "the reason you had a hung jury." She explained that several jurors simply did not believe Informer Douglas, the ex-convict who shuttled the Berrigan-McAlister letters...
...esteem of his convict peers, Frank suggests, as well as the satisfaction of baffling the world by escaping, and then remaining an enigma after his capture...
Douglas did indeed buy a new car* -a $4,000 Javelin with racing stripes -two months later. According to his Bucknell acquaintances, Convict Douglas was a high liver. He dated frequently, drank expensive Scotch, smoked imported cigarettes and sported around in a flashy mod wardrobe...
...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...