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- <text id=91TT0413>
- <title>
- Feb. 25, 1991: Real Appeal
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 25, 1991 Beginning Of The End
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 79
- Real Appeal
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Sophfronia Scott/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> When evangelist Jim Bakker stood convicted of bilking his
- followers of millions of dollars, the judge wanted to lock him
- up and throw away the key--for 45 very long years. But last
- week a federal appeals court ruled that Bakker's sentence was
- excessive because of unsuitable remarks made by the sentencing
- judge. It also didn't hurt Bakker to have Alan Dershowitz, the
- lawyer of last resort, on his side; he will try to get Bakker
- freed on the basis of time served. Bakker has spent 15 months
- in a Rochester, Minn., federal prison, where he has been
- teaching a kick-the-smoking-habit class.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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