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Lifelong inmate Francis Haines shapes legal history
Francis Haines, a Menard prisoner since the 1930s with a flat life sentence for burglary, sparked a Supreme Court appeal after striking fellow inmate Doherty with a shovel on March 30, 1968. His case, framed around constitutional rights and prison discipline, awaits final U S Supreme Court action amid battles in district and appellate courts.
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Robert W. Link
Lindsay-Schaud
Francis Haines
Menard State Penitentiary
Haines
Kerner
U.S. Supreme Court
Doherty
U.S. District Court For
Northern Illnois
U. S. Supreme Court
Warren K. Smoot
William J. Scott
Naascp
Randolph County
Smoot
Moore
Inside Yard Gang