Legal Opinion
United States v. Ronald Thomas Bohle
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 20, 1973No. 645, Docket 72-1868PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, the state of his residence, for the crime of aircraft piracy, 49…
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