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It was all-star week at the U.S. Parole Board. Yes, said the board, to parole applications from 1) Bobby Baker, 43, the onetime protégéof Lyndon B. Johnson who has served 15 months of a one-to-three-year sentence for theft, income tax evasion and...
Confessed Rapist-Murderer Robert Eugene Watson deserved to be executed, said Maryland Judge George B. Rasin. But since such a sentence has become "an exercise in futility," Rasin gave the defendant a life term-and then tacked on an extraordinary proviso. Watson will be eligible for parole in 15 years...
The union boss, who was turned down three times for parole before his presidential commutation, would also replace parole boards with new ones composed of warden, caseworker, guards-and other prisoners. "Who knows more about a guy than somebody who's lived with him 24 hours a day?"
Even with masters like Shakespeare, the pun is lagniappe, a trick to reconcile opposites, a method of giving a long sentence a parole. It was not until 1922 and Ulysses that James Joyce made it a literature unto itself. In Finnegans Wake, words become quintuple exposures; the reader has to...
Last November Harrison was convicted of larceny of the person and simple assault and battery: he received a one-year suspended sentence and a three-year parole.