Edward Joseph Keaveny v. United States

The appellant, Keaveny, appeals his conviction of knowingly, willfully and unlawfully escaping from a federal correctional institution. 1 Keaveny claims that during the afternoon and evening prior to his early morning escape he had drunk a large quantity of grain alcohol which he had stolen from the prison dental laboratory and had swallowed an overdose of asthma medication which he had wrongfully hoarded for just such an occasion. According to Keaveny, this particular mixture was chosen to make him “happy” and to enable him to stay awake for the “late show” on television, not to create such…