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Weighing only 179, but filling in at the 191-pound slot, Freeman sent a Crimson squad that faced a tie--and possibly a heart-breaking loss--into a startling triumph...
...first varsity match, Harvard sophomore Howie Freeman pulled out a fantastic, last-second victory over Cornell's Curt Barry to clinch a 20-14 win over the perennial Ivy wrestling champions...
...fighting a possible three-year sentence, Driscoll pleaded Freeman insanity. Though not psychotic, testified his psychiatrist, the lawyer had "morbid depressions" that inhibited him from finishing important work. Driscoll's defense also brought forward 15 impressive character witnesses, including Louis Nichols, the FBI's ex-No. 2 man and now executive vice president of Schenley Industries. They all testified to his good reputation. Driscoll got a hung jury: six jurors voted to convict, six to acquit for insanity. So he, too, may be retried...
What happens if Sheller and Driscoll are now actually acquitted under the Freeman standards? In many state courts, such acquittal has a grim result...
...Yorker can be committed only if he is presently insane, and more dangerously ill than the minimum required by the rather loose Freeman standards. Thus, if an allegedly insane tax defendant is sane enough to stand trial, he seems unlikely to face state commitment upon his federal acquittal...