UNITED STATES v. BOHLE

No. 645, Docket 72-1868.

475 F.2d 872 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ronald Thomas BOHLE, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah W. Salter, Syracuse, N. Y. (Anthony E. Battelle, Syracuse, N. Y., on the brief), for appellant.

Robert E. Wildridge, Asst. U. S. Atty. (James M. Sullivan, Jr., U. S. Atty., N.D.N.Y., Gustave J. DiBianco, Asst. U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.

Before FEINBERG, MULLIGAN, and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.


FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

In January 1969, Ronald Thomas Bohle, a young man of 22, hijacked an Eastern Airlines plane then enroute from Miami, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas and diverted it to Cuba. It is not clear from the record what transpired after that, but Bohle was eventually apprehended in November 1969 when entering the United States (in the Northern District of New York) from Canada. Despite a defense of insanity, Bohle was convicted after a jury trial in the...

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