The Nation - News from June 3, 1988

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist refused to halt the imprisonment of former U.S. intelligence analyst Samuel Loring Morison, who was convicted on espionage and theft charges for giving information to a British magazine, Jane’s Defence Weekly. In denying Morison’s emergency request to remain free pending a formal appeal to the full court, Rehnquist said “ . . . Morison has not shown that his appeal is likely to result in reversal with respect to all the counts for which imprisonment was imposed.” Morison is scheduled to begin serving a two-year sentence today.