Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Still Wiggling Some years ago, James Boyd proclaimed in these pages eleven rules that he found governed the conduct of politicians caught in a scandal. Rule 7 of Boyd’s...
...Carter was described as a ‘model inmate.’ But the prosecutor in the Carter case, Asst...
...Without more to go on, the diagnosis of sexual sadism is dropped and the patient is without mental disorder.’ 6‘Based on this and other testimony, Gesell yesterday said he had no choice but to find that Carter is ‘without mental disorder’ and to order his immediate and unconditional release from St...
...The victim picked Carter out of a police lineup, and Carter later signed a statement admitting his guilt...
...U. S. Atty...
...The original diagnosis was invalid, the doctor said, because the defendant had feigned mental illness to obtain an aquittal...
...The patient is obviously an unreliable witness-he claims now that he fabricated the 300-rape story to get an insanity defense in 1969...
...The law required the committee to announce when and where it would meet, to hold open meetings, to make all the working papers and transcripts open to the public, None of this was done...
...29, hospital officials again asked Carter’s conditional release, again noting his improvement...
...Today he says it was only 12 rapes...
...Carter was confined in the maximum security section at St...
...Rule 7 of Boyd’s “Ritual of Wiggle” says: “At the moment of deepest personal disgrace, announce for reelection.’’ We were reminded of it the other day by this story from The Washington Post: Indicted Governor Will Run Charleston, W. Va...
...He managed to escape four times, for about three or four months each time, but without further reported criminal activity...
...For headlines that leave no doubt as to editorial point of view, the Gnservative Digest has to win the prize...
...The doctors noted that Carter, then 25, had told them he had raped about 300 women and obtained his sexual satisfaction by raping at knife-point, humiliating, frightening and injuring his victims in a brutal manner...
...William H. Collins, Jr., objected to any such ‘conditional release,’ noting the escapes...
...Last Oct...
...He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed on July 22, 1970, to St...
...During the trial, three doctors from the hospital testified that Carter was suffering from sexual sadism and non-psychotic organic brain syndrome with circulatory disturbance...
...Here is another example, by David Pike of The Washington Star: “On Oct...
...Elizabeth’s...
...Life in the Age of Psycho-Mumbo-Jumbo Last month Tom Bethell wrote in these pages about the insanity of the American system of justice that repeatedly works to put proven violent criminals back on the streets...
...Slick Advisers A proposal that tankers be required to have double bottoms to protect against oil spills has been turned down by a Coast Guard Advisory Committee...
...Elizabeth‘s after his commitment...
...District Court Judge Gerhard A. Gesell...
...The committee members, according to James Perry of The National Observer, include: the chairmen of Exxon, Texaco, Standard Oil, and Gulf Oil Trading Co., and the heads of a variety of large oil-transport companies, including Chevron Shipping and Mobil Shipping...
...announced his candidacy for a third term today, less than two hours after he and a former aide were indicted on charges of extorting $25,000 from a savings and loan firm seeking a bank charter...
...A short while later, Edward Carter Jr., a neighbor, was arrested by police...
...A hospital report stated: ‘The only present evidence to support a diagnosis of sexual sadism comes from the patient himself...
...22, during a hearing on the new request, Gesell heard a startling revelation from a new doctor who had been treating Carter at the hospital-new and extensive tests showed that Carter was not suffering from any brain damage nor from any other mental illness...
...In addition, the IJ...
...Feel Left out...
...However, Carter pleaded insanity at his trial before U.S...
...available police [arrest] reports show a history of general criminal activity, such as burglary, auto theft, homicide, assault with intent to commit rape, etc., rather than a distinct pattern of torturing women for sexual gratification...
...10, 1974, hospital officials wrote Gesell asking a change in the conditions of Carter’s commitment so that he could be released from maximum security and eventually given grounds privileges and allowed visits into the community...
...1, 1968, a 13-year-old girl walking in the 2100 block of 18th Street SE on her way home was raped after being struck with a cinderblock and a knife...
...Carter later was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of rape, rape while armed, assault with a deadly weapon and taking indecent liberties with a minor child, charges which carry penalties up to life in prison...
...Jackpotty Another triumph for government regulation was reported recently by Leon Dash of The Washington “A Was hington-area 1 supplier of natural gas was granted a rate increase last month by the Federal Energy Administration because the company had ~ been ‘poorly managed’ and in need of additional cap ital to avoid bankruptcy.’ It’s the Same Over There I The problem of high-salaried public employees in phony jobs is not unique to America...
...18-Gov...
...Here is a sampling from two recent issues: Alger Hiss, Liar Liberal Parents Can Ruin Their Children Nuclear Power: The Answer to the Energy Crisis The Best of Ronald Reagan Taking Aim at Anti-Gun Politicians Nothing Gay About Homosexuality The Best of George Walhce You Know They Won’t Strike Did you notice any lifference in the quality of government during the last week of December...
...Arch A. Moore Jr...
...S. Maritime Administration and the U. S. Coast Guard were represented...
...The law also requires that membership of all government advisory commit tees be “fairly balanced...
...Then, on Sept...
...Here’s a satirical “situations wanted” ad from the British weekly, Private Eve...
...If not, we may have a basis for determining just how much the federal payroll :an be cut, for, according to John Cramer of n e Washington Star, the absenteeism rate for fedxal employees during that week was 60 per cent...
...But on Nov...
...Elizabeth’s Hospital...
Vol. 7 • February 1976 • No. 12
