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...March when she and three henchmen of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalist Party sprayed the chamber of U.S. House of Representatives with pistol bullets, wounding five Congressmen.* Last week Terrorist Lebroón got a much lighter sentence than she apparently expected. Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff gave her the maximum for assault with a dangerous weapon: 50 years in prison, with eligibility for parole in 16 years, eight months...
Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff, who heard the case in Washington, acknowledged the military's right to try a civilian for his military crimes, but questioned its authority to arrest a civilian, much less abduct him to a foreign country. Then Judge Holtzoff ruled that a writ of habeas corpus should be issued. The Air Force reluctantly brought its prisoner home for a court hearing scheduled for next week...
Influence Peddler Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald finally came up for sentencing in Washington last week for his contemptuous refusal to answer the questioning of congressional investigators (TIME, April 27). Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff, in a surprising aside, noted that Grunewald had been in contempt of Congress partly because of bad legal advice, fined him $1,000, added a go-day jail term, suspended it, and then put him on probation for a year...
...Washington, Judge Holtzoff sentenced Kurt Ponger to five to 15 years in prison, and his brother-in-law Otto Verber to 3⅓ to ten years, for spying for the Russians. The two Austrian-born ex-G.I.s, both U.S. citizens, were arrested in Vienna last January. Soon afterward they pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to collect and deliver U.S. defense secrets to the Russians...
...jury's verdict: not guilty. Judge Alexander Holtzoff had no doubt that the jurymen had acted conscientiously and discharged their duty. But, he added: "The court does not approve of your verdict." Commented Weinberg: "I am happy to prove my innocence...