Show Sign Of Bias Seen In Garcia-Bowne Comparison By C. HALE This fifth and final article on the case of Jesse Garcia Is a limited study of the forces of prejudice Only ethnic discrimination is here considered not emotional reactions to It must be recognized at once that the ethnic discrimination which contributes to the failure of equal justice under law does not begin in the Neither does it begin with law unless we include here the cumber some mass of legislation restricting behavior according to least 29 states have some form of From prejudice begins to pummel the shaping In the the result is an individual who lacks poise and It is not merely the fact of social rejection but the effects of that process which are THE DENTS Bowne and Garcia provide an opportunity to observe the subtle aspects of For the purpose of comparison only it should be assumed that both boys were guilty as role in the case is not germane to this We have considered the conditions of Jesse Garcia's formative we now turn our attention to the other minor involved in the crime at material on Rowne is from the source of the trial Leonard Warner Bowne grew up in Idaho as a typical western American set apart from others only by somewhat superior intelligence and a nearly prodigious musical He performed church functions from the age of three He a mischievous In school he quickly finished his then sought outlets for his energy but apparently there were no real This life course was re-directed with some other normal he broke into a school building and stole a few objects as of SINCE HE WAS simply a nice boy who did a foolish he was placed on With he later moved to became involved in an automobile and because of this probation violation he was returned to an Idaho He was still considered a uncorrupted and employment was obtained for him in the home of an official where he lived as a member of the This can be arranged only when there is legitimate WHEN THE WORK was he had to be returned to He was still considered nice authorities were reluctant to keep him in the constant company of so he worked outside the jail as a Then came the episode which possibly directed him into He was He was trimming shrubbery outside the A young girl walked Bowne whistled at THE COMPLIMENT was not accepted by this daughter of a Bowne had to be When they put him into solitary he you put me in I'll And he Escape was followed by car and eventually he found himself in Utah's state and then involved in a crime which doomed him to a life sentence at the age of 19 there is a distinct difference in the lives and problems of these two One is a social failure a personality warped by the wanton and cruelties of a poorly organized the other a failure so that been only a matter of ESS for hL misdeed until he by what he rank j At his he bore th of a wel No many of tiff would have shared his he had been victim of a Also it would not be to sentence to death a vl man in almost resembled one's 2 sons or on the other facing a court of AngL hanri 2 the appearance of an X S an attitude of defiant M typically used by C mature to simulate courage JESSE ground was so different his childhood removed from life experiences court and that his 0 lems would arouse rather than While the punishment of Bowne at age 17 would be seen as a clear-cut injustice to a decent the cumulated social cruelties inflicted on Garcia from birth would be seen as rather than BOWNE in a better candidate for mercy and eventual since the effects of social rejection had already mangled the of those social if still prevailing in would decrease Garcia's chances for successful Having reached this we should Did the jurors objectively come to this Did with detached unfortunate boy is beyond therefore we should complete society's destructive process with society's WHAT DID they see when Jesse Garcia stood before A extremely small of perhaps in memory of lithe Pueblo well skin color that barely remembered its richness in days of the deep waved hair typical of his cheekbones rising to define a characteristic Did they see a typical their minds stirred by uneasy memories of the maligned THE EYE'S mechanical efficiency is dwarfed by the brain's Beauty is recognized by the evil may be conjured by the Reason is clotted by a network of Mack Merrill and Jesse M. Garcia are scheduled to face the aim of death on March While these convicted murderers have been on Death many other murders have been committed in State of While three persons would oe for one life in w. other murderers along with less lesser ano one barely saw the inside oi a wife-murder lightly punished THIS t of the death penalty that it is no m jac used as a tj u but const a and unusual pun for its few oM w It is a gross defamation exalted Under |