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Word: papineau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connecticut court, four Negro boys were convicted by an all-white jury in October of raping a 14-year-old white girl named Donna Papineau. One of them, 16-year-old Gary Palmer, was sent to the state reformatory at Cheshire. His two brothers, 17 and 19, along with a 19-year-old cousin named Arturo Palmer, a college-scholarship winner, were given prison terms ranging from nine to 16 years. The only eyewitness was Donna, who testified that the boys forced her into a car in Stamford and took her to an apartment where all four beat and raped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Are Courts More Severe With Black Defendants? | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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