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Another winner in the Supreme Court last week was Billy Henry, a convicted robber, who will get a new trial because key evidence against him came from an informer in violation of Henry's right to counsel. The 6-to-3 decision, written by Chief Justice Warren Burger, was a surprisingly liberal one for a court considered tough on criminal defendants' rights...
What grave robber could resist a target like that? The tumulus is still there, looming above the flat plain, a beacon and a challenge for China's archaeologists, a possible trove of treasures out-dazzling even those on exhibit at the Met. -A. T. Baker
...selected a particularly strong-willed black bank robber named Tex. Ready with a box of wooden matches, I got him into a discussion of the subject and pressed him to the point where he challenged me. Because I had been warned never again to indulge that practice near or on finger joints and my palm was already burned out, I had to use my forearm...
...assassination, Booth's escape and supposed death after a twelve-day hunt, and the mysterious burial. The Pinkerton man, a former Union spy, leaves no headstone unturned tracking the actor, a onetime Confederate agent. It is a harrowing assignment, leading him to prod such sacred cows as Robber Baron Jay Gould and General Lafayette C. Baker, Lincoln's spymaster. By carriage, train, boat and balloon, Cosgrove stumbles on one denouement after another -though the last and most dramatic is supplied by Colonel Croft...
...previously been expelled from a state mental hospital as uncontrollable. A recent graduate, now working on the school staff while he waits to enter college, had a long theft-and-burglary record. Until the school turned him around, he had an unusual career goal: to be a bank robber...