Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Helsinki Commission to hear testimony Wednesday in the case of George Wright
The Helsinki Commission, a Congressional commission headed by U.S. Rep. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J., Wednesday afternoon is scheduled to hold a hearing on international fugitives, using the case of George Wright -- the escaped prisoner who was convicted of murdering a Wall gas station attendent in the 1960s and is now living in Portugal. Among those scheduled to testify at the 2 p.m. hearing on Captiol Hill is Ann Patterson, of Howell, the daughter of Walter Patterson who was killed by a young George Wright at a Wall Township gas station in 1962 during a robbery. The event will be streamed live here. Portuguese police captured the 68-year-old Wright near the capital Lisbon last September, ending his four decades on the lam after escaping …
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Country will not send back George Wright
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
LISBON, Portugal — Portugal's Supreme Court has refused a request from the U.S. to extradite American fugitive George Wright, his lawyer said Thursday. Wright's lawyer Manuel Luis Ferreira said the court rejected an appeal by the U.S. against a lower court's decision that denied extradition a month ago. "The Supreme Court has denied the appeal," Ferreira told The Associated Press. "They notified me today." The U.S. can now appeal to Portugal's Constitutional Court if it chooses to. Ferreira said he did not have details of the ruling. In Portugal, extradition cases are conducted in secret. Ferreira said Wright intends to remain in Portugal. A Lisbon judge decided against Wright's extradition in November, two months after he was captured in …
Sunday, November 20, 2011
George Wright killed a man in Wall in the 1960s, fled
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
On a spring day in 1976, while hiding out in Paris, an American member of the Black Liberation Army panicked. Newspapers were trumpeting the arrest of four comrades who had helped him hijack a plane. He needed to get out of France, and fast. George Wright called together his secret network of friends — French radicals and an American sympathizer. They hatched a plan: Wright would slip quietly into Portugal by train and move on to one of its former African colonies, where Marxism and hostility to the West meant he would probably be safe. The plan worked for decades. Then, in September, thanks to a fingerprint from his past, it all came crashing down. More From the Associated Press
Thursday, November 17, 2011
George Wright, an escaped prisoner, killed a man in Wall in the1960s
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
LISBON, Portugal — A Portuguese court has denied a U.S. request for the extradition of captured American fugitive George Wright, who spent 41 years on the lam in a journey that took him across three continents, a court official and his lawyer said Thursday. The U.S. wants Wright returned to serve the rest of his 15- to 30-year jail sentence for a 1962 killing in Wall Township. Wright was captured in Portugal in September after a fingerprint provided by U.S. authorities was matched to his in a national database the country maintains for all citizens and legal residents. Wright's lawyer, Manuel Luis Ferreira, told The Associated Press by telephone the judge accepted his arguments that Wright is now Portuguese and that the statute of …
Kevin McQuade
10:01 am on Friday, November 30, 2012
Wright? Any relation to the " Chickens are Coming Home To Roost " & " I Nver Heard A SINGLE WORD IN 20? YEARS! " CHICAGO STANDARDS WRIGHT'S? more ›