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...clever man in the usual sense. He was certainly no intellectual and read little but the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest and a western or two. He was not imaginative, and perhaps this was just as well; unlike his friend George Patton, he never developed fantasies of being a reincarnation of one of Alexander the Great's captains. Nor could he speak, as Douglas MacArthur could, like Henry V before Harfleur. Yet the conclusion is inevitable that the war was too serious to be left to anyone but this general...
Bullhorns & Hot Coffee. The target was the tiny (pop. 4,000) village of Samu, three miles north of the Israeli border, a frequent staging area for terrorists. At dawn one morning last week, 4,000 Israeli troops, riding in Jeeps, personnel carriers and five Patton tanks, rumbled across the frontier, overwhelmed an eight-man police post and swept into Samu, routing sleepy-eyed residents out of their homes with booming bullhorns. While Israeli troops calmly sipped hot coffee on Samu's main street, demolition teams dynamited 46 empty houses, and three tanks reduced the local mosque to rubble...
Punishment Ceiling. Represented by counsel at his second trial in February 1965, Patton pleaded not guilty, and at this point his experience differed sharply from that of Clarence Gideon. Patton was found guilty a second time. In pronouncing sentence, the trial judge said, "I would give you five more years than I am giving you, but I am allowing you credit for the time you have served. Judgment of the court is that the defendant be imprisoned for a term of 20 years...
Back in the state prison, and five years worse off than before, Patton filed a petition for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court. There the state argued that no one had forced him to seek a second trial, that if it turned out badly for him, it was his own fault. In asking for a new trial, argued States Attorney Theodore Brown, Patton must be deemed to have consented to wiping out the consequences of his first trial. Furthermore, said Brown, a defendant is not entitled as a matter of law to credit against his second sentence. Besides, since...
...punishing a prisoner for obtaining a new trial, that he had some "empathy" for the second trial judge. Nevertheless, Craven held that when a harsher sentence is imposed there must be a clearly discernible reason for it, and he could find none at all in the trial record. Patton, in fact, was regarded as a model prisoner. Ruling that "a prisoner may not be denied credit for time served, nor punished for obtaining a new trial," Judge Craven decided that there had been a violation of the due-process and equal-protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. Patton, he concluded...