THE JEWISH NEWS

THIS ISSUE 60'D

SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY

MARCH 4, 1988 / 15 ADAR 5748

DAVID HOLZEL

Staff Writer

One year after the sentencing of
Jonathan Jay Pollard and his wife,
Anne Henderson-Pollard, appeals for
the couple apparently have entered a
new phase. Having nearly exhausted
the judicial process, the Pollards'
families now seek a presidential par-
don for the two.
On March 4, 1987, Federal Dis-
trict Court Judge Aubrey E. Robin-
son, Jr., sentenced Pollard, 33, a
former civilian Navy analyst, to life
in prison for passing U.S. military
secrets to Israel. His wife, 27, re-
ceived two concurrent five-year terms
for illegally posessing classified
documents.
Last week, Judge Robinson
turned down Pollard's motion for
reduction of his sentence.
David Turner of New York, direc-
tor of the Justice for the Pollards
Committee, said the motion for reduc-
tion was made on the grounds that
the federal government overstated the
damage of Pollard's activities, that
the government reneged on its plea-

bargain agreement with Pollard for a
lenient sentence in exchange for full
cooperation, and that in reneging the
government set precedent for lack of
trust.
Pollard's former attorney, Richard
Hibey, had filed the appeal. Alan Der-
showitz, a professor at Harvard
University, is now serving as Jon-
athan Pollard's attorney.
In a previous hearing, the appeal for
reduction of Anne Henderson-Pol-
lard's sentence was also declined. Her
attorney, Nathan Dershowitz, has
filed an appeal in federal appeals
court in the District of Columbia.
In interviews this week with The
Jewish News, members of the
Pollards' families summed up what
has been an often frustrating but oc-
casionally enouraging 12 months.
Anne's father, Bernard Hender-
son, described the year as a not-so-
funny good news/bad news joke. "The
bad news is both of them are still held
in isolation and in unspeakable con-
ditions. My daughter's health is very,
very bad. She has been denied proper
medical treatment.
"The good news is that, a year

Re ligious News Service

Pardon Is Sought
In New Pollard Tactic

The Pollard family — Mollie, Dr. Morris and Carol — join Pollard advocate David Turner at a
press conference.

ago, nobody cared, and I mean nobody.
The silence was deafening. But as
more people learned the facts of the
case, people are now actively support-
ing us."
Anne was diagnosed in 1986 as
suffering from biliary dyskinesia, a
rare disease which prevents her from
digesting food properly. Her family
says she is not able to eat solid food,
weighs less than 90 pounds and is in
constant pain.

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