Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a scathing denunciation of "massive adverse pretrial publicity," Federal Judge J. Robert Elliott last September threw out Army Lieut. William Calley's conviction for his part in the 1968 My Lai massacre. Last week 13 judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Elliott's...
Few ex-convicts receive the warm greeting from society given to former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner. Convicted in 1973 on charges of mail fraud, bribery and tax evasion, Kerner spent seven months in prison before his parole in March to undergo an operation for lung cancer. Last week as an...
High Bail. As the investigation proceeded, Byrne and Lynch were arraigned on federal extortion charges and held on bail totaling $700,000. They are also expected to be indicted on New York State kidnaping charges, which carry a minimum no-parole 15-year prison sentence. The bail was set so...
Organizing success and a mass membership bring political power. Some 93% of the candidates endorsed by the Teamsters won in last fall's California state elections. Teamster President Frank E. Fitzsimmons, who succeeded Hoffa when Hoffa gave up union office several months before being released from prison, was close...
About 70% of all adults imprisoned for serious crime are repeaters who have already been in jail at least once before. Many are on parole or probation. One man in Houston was arrested for thievery and released eleven times in 18 months without ever going to trial. The same is...