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Mar 11, 1966
Timothy Leary convicted on marijuana charges, fined $30,000, and sentence to a maximum of 30 years in Federal prison; his 18-year-old daughter Susan who had also been arrested was ordered sent to a Federal reformatory.   

The date of this conviction has been incorrectly listed as March 26 in the literature (Stafford 1983/1992; Ott 1993/1996).


References
Anon. "Former Harvard Teacher Sent To Prison on Marijuana Charges", The New York Times, 1966(Mar 12):25.


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