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SS ee ee ae OM a Chart gr NN ll FI TS ee a Se ee e& ; © @ ght i, rao POPLYR - 21 never to return which would surely have upset his 150 supporters who marched in the rain outside, Along with Popeye and his lawyers were 18 favorable witnesses including sister Sandra, a well known T.V. newscaster, a doctor and a medical student, a parole specialist, Reverends Roswell and Ceci) Williams, Willte Brown from the state ansembly, and U.S. Congressperson Ron Dellums. In the lonpest revocation hearing in history, Popeye's team overwhelmed them. ll the revocation charges except the heroin possession were successfully challenged by his attorney because they were based on hearsay evidence; this included the 3 secret SS reports. Then his lawyer argued that the heroin poss- ession should be thrown out os well since Popeye had already been acquitted of that charge by a jury. The board noted that the kind of evidence allowed in court to determine conviction ofa crime and the kind of evidence used in deter- mining a violation of a condition of parole could differ. Thin was another way of saying what all cons know; the board does what it wants to do. In a@ normal hearing, nothing can be truly "thrown out"; it can only hecome a "silent beef" and they're often the worst kind. But this was not a normal revocation hearing; everyhody was watching. Pope eye's witnessea went to work on the heroin charge with one voice. No one, in the farthest reach of their imagination, could believe Popeye could be in poss- eonion of heroin. His anti-drug attitudes were too well known; he gave speeches in the high schools about the evila of drugs. Cecil Williams wos “well aware of Popeye's tremendous work in the field of drug prevention" and could not see how Popeye could ever ponsess or sell drugs. Popeye was involved with the top peo- ple in the community and was a very committed man. It would be a dramatic i “ contradiction if he were ever to sell narcotics, In an sbsurd face-saving act that concealed their total defent, the board found Popeye guilty of possession S we Be a te adie ere sige per ibe casteal -Pilyy ye # * a bar ae at s . ~ . ae yearn fp hre oe