Update: The Trials Of Tom Mistrot
November, 1977
Most people lament the failure of our criminal-justice system to protect society against thieves, armed robbers, rapists and murderers, who too often can rack up dozens of arrests and several convictions without ever going to jail--or staying there for very long before resuming their criminal careers. A conspicuous exception to this pattern is Thomas Francis Mistrot. By 1968, at the age of 22, he had been convicted of two coin-machine burglaries and a minor marijuana offense and sentenced to lif...
