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When Watkins still refused to co operate, Buckley decided to let him go on the theory that "he's an ex-convict; he won't say anything." Buckley was wrong. Watkins went straight to the police and brought kidnap charges. The trial took just two days; the jury just two hours...
...rescued by the Teamsters Union, which proffered him a $2,000,000 loan. Soon after, he flailed the Kennedys for "railroading" the Teamster chief. Under the headline, GOD BARRED BY HOFFA'S JAILERS, he recently castigated prison authorities for returning devotional material that some nuns had sent to Convict Hoffa. He explained his own devotion to Hoffa. "As is this newspaper," he wrote, "the Teamsters are concerned with mercy, charity and helping the average citizen of the U.S. gain the highest possible living standards...
...outside penitentiary walls, the term prison reform is a meaningless abstraction. Only when the particular problems of a particular prison break into the open is there public pressure for correction. Such was the case in Arkansas last week. For years, Arkansas legislators have been referring to their two large convict farms as a "model system." The farms turned in a handsome profit that averaged about $1,400,000 over the years from the sale of farm products, and few prisoners ever seemed to escape. But the realities of prison life in Arkansas were far removed from the comfortable assumption...
...Scratch. Gary did not take the witness stand and his attorney merely objected to prosecution allegations and procedures. The two judges took just 20 minutes to convict Gary. But even some of those who thought him guilty felt that flaws in the case had not been adequately brought out. They noted that Gary's parents produced an identical knife and said it was the one he had bought. As for the screams, the police had already interviewed some witnesses by the time they questioned Gary, and it therefore could have been the police who provided Gary's version...
Murder, rape and bribery are all crimes that everyone understands; what is meant by conspiracy is less obvious. 'Lately, this age-old crime has become one that district attorneys find themselves prosecuting in a variety of important cases. Conspiracy charges have helped convict such diverse defendants as Billie Sol Estes, the accused killers of the three Mississippi civil rights workers, and price-fixing General Electric executives...