Condemned killer Clark refuses last appeal for Nov. 5 execution
Colin Clark, a 27 year old Baton Rouge man, says he has one more shot to appeal his execution but will not use it. He cites choosing death over life in prison and notes his mother’s distress while asserting his innocence and blaming accomplice Michael Glover for the 1978 murder of Baton Rouge restaurant manager Frank Schmidt. Gov Treen could still intervene.
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Angola
Colin Clark
Baton Rouge
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Clark
Jean Beavans
Cairo
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Dave Treen
Louisiana
Frank Schmidt
Michael Glover
Schmidt
Widow sues church over Coltrane name use in San Francisco
Alice Coltrane filed a 7.5 million dollar suit in San Francisco Superior Court alleging the One Mind Temple Evolutionary Transitional Church of Christ illegally uses John Coltrane’s name without family sanction. She accuses the church of misrepresentation and copyright infringement and seeks to stop associating his name with its religious activities.
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SAN Francisco
John Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
One Mind Temple Evolutionary Transitional Church of Christ
Coltrane
Temple
Dizzy Gillespie
Miles Davis
San Francisco International
One Mind Temple
Ramakrishna Hagg
Christ
John
God
Haggy
Mother Mary
Jesus
Suit filed to keep Soviet boy here
Walter Polovchak, a 14 year old Soviet refugee, seeks federal court protection to remain in the United States after winning permanent residency. His lawyers argue removal would violate his rights and injure his ability to worship in the Eastern Rite Catholic Church. The suit charges Soviet authorities influenced his parents to return to Ukraine and asks the court to bar forcible removal.
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Chicago
Walter Polovchak
United States
Soviet Union
U.S
Illinois
Polovchak
Ukraine
Palovchak
Michael
Anna Polovchak
Walter
Prosecutor sues newspaper over Boyle libel claim
Richard A. Sprague, who prosecuted former United Mine Workers president W A Boyle, files a $12 million libel suit against The Bulletin. He says a series published the week of Aug 2 was totally false and distorted, alleging immoral and illegal conduct during Boyle’s murder prosecution of union rival Joseph Jock Yablonski.
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Philadelphia
Richard A. Sprague
United Mine Workers
W.A
Tony” Boyle
The
Bulletin
Sprague
Boyle
Union
Joseph
Jock” Yablonski
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