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Ex Woman Juror Ordered To HandS2SiSifcIn 500 Letters To Prison ConvictafatSAN RAFAEL, Calif. (UPI) —A woman who once voted as a juror to convict San Quentin prison inmate Robert G. Glover on a knifing charge was ordered Thursday to submit in evidence 500 letters which she received from him since his trial in 1963.Superior Court Judge Joseph Wilson rejected the contention of Mrs. Dolores Dutra, 30, who said she fell in love with Glover during his first trial, divorced her husband and now considers herself the convict’s common law wife.Judge Wilson also rejected a defense request that he formalize the marriage in his chambers. The request came during Glover’s re-trial on alecharge of stabbing a fellow j* inmate at San Quentin. -pThe original conviction— aireturned by a jury including fc Mrs. Dutra—was overturned by li a higher court, which ordered the new trial. sMrs. Dutra, who testified as tl a witness Tuesday, said she c and glover, 33, have carried on s their pen-pal romance since his first trial. nThey have never met outside sprison walls, but she visits him tlregularly and wears a “wed* il ding'1 ring which he fashioned bfrom a dime at Folsom prison oafter his first trial.The prosecution requested that the love letters be Introduced as evidence on the grounds that they might contain information about the stabbing.The defense argued that Mrs. Dutra considers herself married to Glover and that the law ! permits a wife to refuse to 1 testify against her husband.I4judge Wilson overruled defense arguments and ordered 1 Mrs. Dutra to produce the letters.oiover was first sent to stateprison in 1954 for second degreerobbery. He was released in1951, but returned to prison the same year on a five year tolife sentence for parole violation and first degree robbery.Earlier testimony indicated that Glover had once been an unruly prisoner—but has become a model inmate since he and Mrs Dutra began corresponding.
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Mount Carmel Daily Republican Register
Mount Carmel, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 28, 1966
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