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...glass. The witness testified at Blyden's trial that he had "no doubt" Blyden was the man he had spotted. Greta Jude testified that Blyden had been with her since midmorning, but the jury apparently did not believe her. Blyden was sentenced to 15-20 years. The actual robber was never found. Blyden's lawyer, Richard M. Cherry, argues in his petition that Blyden was denied due process by the "unnecessarily suggestive" one-man "show-up." He also claims that Blyden's right to a fair trial was violated because he lacked effective counsel and the jury...
...once a robber makes his move, cooperate fully and never resist. Do not carry a gun. Says Robert McKinney, an ex-forger who runs Project JOVE: "If there is not enough money in the till, write the guy a check." That conjures up the wry possibility of the grocer, pen poised, inquiring, "And whom shall I make...
...heavily armed, robbed a black after hours bar called the Red Carpet Lounge on Manhattan's upper West Side. They ordered about 25 customers to lie on the floor, assaulted some of them, took their wallets and laid down a barrage of fire as they left. As the robbers were scattering outside, they were pursued by six carloads of police who had been alerted by the bar's lookout men. In a running gun battle, two cops were wounded, one of them by a shotgun blast. A patrolman chased one robber to a nearby rooftop and shot...
...industries that were protected initially by tariffs and licensing provisions have grown into large monopolies reaping windfall returns to capital of 50 on upwards to 100 per cent. Two-thirds of industrial profits are controlled by 20 to 30 families in West Pakistan. The developers created this class of "robber barons" (in the words of the DAS' Papanek) with the expectation that they would have a high rate of savings out of their surplus income that they would reinvest. This reinvestment would increase the capital stock, raise the GNP and trickle benefits down to the rest of the nation...
Most civilized law has long since abandoned the theory of explicitly fitting punishment to crime-castrating rapists, for example-but there is something to be said for the principle in its less violent forms. Perhaps a criminal should even be forced to make restitution in kind. The robber should work to repay his victim, the murderer should be indentured to support the dead man's family. Most crimes, after all, are offenses not against the state but against persons; and persons, short of bloody revenge, should have some satisfaction...