Gangster Jeremiah Sullivan, 46, last week gave a New York Supreme Court judge a tough question to ponder. Strongarm man Sullivan, convicted of coercion, asked that a three-year reformatory sentence be changed to a one-year straight prison term. Reminding the court that he lost his civil rights when he was found guilty of second-degree murder in 1918, ex-Convict Sullivan contended: "You cannot reform a person who has no rights."
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