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- From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
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- Subject: Re: Leary, Manson, Kleps and other questions...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.162731.20210@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:27:31 GMT
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- >> I think his charge was actually conspiracy to commit murder, still a big
- >>one though... I also thought he was in a meximum security mental ward...
- >>I saw a spread on him in Time or Life. He pretty much gets what he wants
- >>where he is, except out... He gets solitude, which I would think is a
- >>blessing for any lifer...
- >
- >No, Charlie is *not* in a mental ward: the state of California does
- >not consider him to be insane. He has never been declared insane
- >or certified a public danger because of psychotic instability.
- >Further, it's pretty much a given that within the next 5-10 years
- >the parole board will run out of reasons not to release him (his
- >"life" sentence is a soft/evaluative one). Lastly, the state would
- >have a hell of a time getting him declared criminally insane after
- >maintaining for 20+ years that he *isn't* insane, so they'd have no
- >constitutional grounds to hold him.
- >
- >Charlie's getting out, folks. Maybe not now, but soon enough...
-
- Not if he has anything to say about it. (info here from Manson in HIs Own
- Words, Amok Press, CA, USA) While in prison he has been constantly
- fighting off attempts on his life. Think about it. What small-time hood
- wouldn;t want to be nationally known as "the guy who killed Manson?" What
- is your evidence for thinking his sentence is "evaluative"
-
- In responding to this; if your only info source is Helter Skelter (the
- book, not the movie) keep in mind that VT Bugliosi (sp?) was the
- prosecuting attorney in the case, and should not be considered an unbiased
- observer
- --
- "A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@
- I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
- think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
- these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
-