Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of the evidence. The nine men and three women needed only an hour and 25 minutes of deliberation to judge Citizens Councilman Lauderdale, a building supply dealer, guilty of what the prosecution had called "a diabolical scheme." The jury's proposed sentence: three years in prison, a $500 fine. He was the third of five accused Little Rock bombers to be convicted (another pleaded guilty), with trial of the fifth still to come...
...Treatment Man, by William Wiegand. Part melodrama, part morality play, this novel of life in a maximum security prison is a sharply written exercise in federal penmanship...
Thirty-year prison sentences were asked for all but one of the Cubans. Among the Cuban defendants were two women...
...taking the pressure off him elsewhere (Factor was wanted at the time in England on a swindling charge). Brennan also wondered-along with a lot of other newsmen and a good many Chicago cops-if Illinois Gangster Roger Touhy, convicted of kidnaping and sentenced to 99 years in prison after being identified by Factor as one of his abductors, had not, in fact, been framed...
From time to time Brennan visited Touhy at Illinois' Stateville Prison, became even more convinced of his innocence in the kidnaping. Last fortnight, his sentence commuted to 75 years, Roger Touhy was ordered released on parole. Timed for publication at the same time as Touhy's release was a book co-authored by Touhy and Ray Brennan,* avowing Touhy's innocence. It charges that the prosecution used a witness who was not in Chicago at the time of the kidnaping to convict Touhy, and gives details of how Factor changed his testimony against Touhy during the trial...