United States v. Edward Pastor and Martin Weiner

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

William Shakespeare

“Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.”

Samuel Johnson

At 9:00 A.M., on May 18, 1976, when the District Judge ordered this case to trial, appellant Pastor, who had a previous history of advanced triple-vessel coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, hypertension and severe angina pectoris, which the District Judge had earlier acknowledged to be a “concededly serious heart condition”, was on his way to the Mt. Sinai Hospital.1 The hospital history showed that he had suffered “two hours of severe anterior…