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Susan E. Saxe yesterday received a 10 to 12 year prison term after entering a plea of guilty to two charges of robbery and one charge of manslaughter...
...part of her guilty plea, Saxe admitted to taking part in a 1970 bank robbery in which a Boston policeman was killed. John T. Gaffney, first assistant district attorney, said yesterday Saxe was allowed to receive a reduced charge of manslaughter because she felt shooting the patrolman was not warranted in the bank robbery...
...Susan Saxe Defense Committee, denied Gaffney's claim yesterday. "There was no way it is a victory for the prosecution. Gaffney has yet to prove Susan Saxe guilty before a jury, or even guilty of anything. We understand he was afraid of another trial and therefore he initiated the plea bargaining," Kagan said...
...said "The Defense Committee all felt it was a wise decision to enter a guilty plea given political and legal realities of the new judge, of the probability of less peremptory challenges and the climate within the legal system against Susan Saxe, we all agreed it made sense...
What we hear today in Boston and Chicago and Detroit and Louisville and Washington is a plea to an outdated sentiment and an appeal to ignorance. We hear politicians saying along with the rabble and the hatemongers that to enforce rules which would provide quality education, quality housing, equal employment and social justice would be to punish the white people of America. The deep-down prejudices of too many people are being dragged to the surface and in the process submerging rational consideration and thought and understanding. What we face today is not only the same fight we have been...