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Governor Ray is pondering Bobbie's plight. As his press secretary Dick Gelbert explains: "The Governor has no power to extend sentences; he can only commute or pardon or parole." But the publicity aroused by Bobbie's letter may eventually get him what he wants. MGM has even...
For one thing, trouble often crops up when a country changes from a colony to an independent nation. Sometimes the old extradition treaty carries over, sometimes not. The U.S. has fallen behind in negotiating extradition treaties with new nations, and there are now about 50 with which no treaties exist...
He steered a law through the state legislature requiring life sentences without parole for convicted heroin pushers. That hasn't forced them out of business, though; it has merely made their heroin more expensive, which means addicts must now rob more apartments, and mug more old women, to get enough...
The psychiatrist at California's Atascadero State Hospital did not think that Edmund Emil Kemper III, a 20-year-old giant who five years earlier had killed his grandparents, should return to society. Even so, a parole board eventually sent Kemper home to the comforts of life with his...
But the second reason for remembering him may be even more important. Karleton Armstrong's not just a symbol. He's a real person, condemned to spend the next 25 years in prison. For 25 years--maybe less, if he gets parole--he can't go out to watch the...