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Caryl Chessman — Part 4
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“Did you have the opportunity to go to college.
hen you were younger?
“I have “had a semester of junior college, and 3 se
mgster of university work. I did fairly well.”
“I'd like you to elaborate on your work load, and
how you achieve these results that you have. Do you
plan ahead, or do you go step by step?”
“Well, much like a soldier on a battlefield, I think,
that you simply plod through from+day to day. I think |
that you have to have an overall objective, of course,
which was supplied for me with the return of the death
penalty, and the other judgment of conviction. It was dif-
ficittt to anticipate the problems that would arise, or the
next step that would necessarily have to be made in the
litigation. I have had to meet so many emergencies and
many deadlines, and I didn’t know exactly what a parti-
cular court or judge might rule, so consequently when I
had to come up against a new problem, I had to meét
it as such rather than taking it arbitrarily, or trying to
anticipate exactly what. each court would do, or read its
mind.”
“Well, it's been suggested to us that your cell
lights are on unti? the early hours of the morning,
and that you expand your efforts in many extra-cur-
ricular activities, and it's also been suggested to us
how you approach these things. You don’t allow your-
self to get too far involved, so you can get through
each project.”
“Well, of course I've done a great amount of work in
addition to legal work, I mean authorship Ag—sich = per-
hapsend other things that I've had to fit, in effect,
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