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Testing anew the strength of his convictions. John David Provoo was cell-bound last week. His old trouble-treason -dated from the World War II surrender of Corregidor, when California-born U.S. Sergeant Provoo bowed deeply to his arriving captors, spoke to them in fluent Japanese, offered his humble services. A toadying informer, he bullied Americans, baked layer cakes for the Japanese, caused the execution of a U.S. captain. But after the war, the case was bungled in U.S. legal machinery, and Provoo's conviction was reversed on technical grounds by the Supreme Court. This time...
...Supreme Court put an end last week to a treason case that had been bungled from the beginning: the prosecution of ex-Sergeant John David Provoo, a Californian who took up Buddhism in his youth, lived in a Japanese monastery, later enlisted in the U.S. Army. Captured on Corregidor in 1942, at 25, he served the Japanese as a stool pigeon, according to his fellow prisoners, and brought about the execution of a U.S. captain. But the Army brought no charges after the war, and Provoo re-enlisted; it was 1949 before he was indicted for treason, and 1953 before...
Last year the U.S. Court of Appeals for New York reversed Provoo's conviction on technical grounds: he should have been tried in Maryland, where first picked up, and he should not have been cross-examined on the "prejudicial" issue of homosexuality. He was indicted again in Baltimore, but last March U.S. District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen threw out the case, ruling: "Provoo . . . has been denied the right of speedy trial within the meaning of the Sixth Amendment." Last week the Supreme Court upheld the dismissal...
...took six years and $1,000,000 to press treason charges against California-born ex-Sergeant John David Provoo, 37, a Buddhist devotee who kowtowed to the Japanese after his capture in World War II. Last year he was sentenced to life imprisonment on testimony that his collaboration with the Japanese caused the death of an American fellow prisoner. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York reversed his conviction, voiding his trial. Reason: he should have been tried where found (Maryland, not Manhattan), and he should not have been subjected to a "prejudicial . . . utterly irrelevant" cross-examination...
John David Provoo, traitor to the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 23), stood up for sentencing last week before Judge Gregory F. Noonan of the U.S. district court in Manhattan. Tearfully, he cried: "Your Honor . . . I love my country." Said Judge Noonan: "Traitors all are to be despised." Yet, because of Provoo's "great emotional instability," the court spared him the extreme penalty of death, sentenced him, instead, to life imprisonment...