Thirty days for shooting a cop, a small payoff and no apologly to his victim.
Much of the $250,000 in contributions came from supporters in Canada and criminal-defense lawyers in Cook County, Pannell's attorney, Neil Cohen said. Pannell also put in "a great deal" of his own money, said Cohen, who declined to be more specific.
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“Something good had to come out of this,” Mr. Knox said Friday, after watching Mr. Pannell accept the deal during a hearing in a Cook County courthouse.
“The easy way out would have been to have a trial, and cost this county hundreds of thousands of dollars, have him go to jail, and cost the prison system hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Mr. Knox said.
I wonder if this writer is any relation to Ira Einhorn. Ira Einhorn was the founder of Earth Day. He also murdered his girlfriend and stuffed her body in a chest in his closet, and when discovered, escaped to France. There he lived for about 20 years under the protection of the French, who would not extradite him because his was a capital case.
They killed people. They were planning to place a large bomb in a major building on Fort Dix New Jersey but as the bomb was being made it exploded and killed three of the gang including the then girl friend of terrorist Ayers.
They went underground and used student loans to go to college. She is now a lawyer and a university professor and he is a university professor.
They were never tried for their terrorist actions and today brag about their actions.
Killing police in New York then must not be the crime it is today.
The punishment should be the same it would have been 40 yrs ago.
Last month he gave up that fight, saying he was inspired by the new political climate he saw in Chicago, symbolized, he said, by the support of Mayor Richard M. Daley and other...
I think this guy has been in the boonies way too long.