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Al6 urrent file); Aug 2, 1978; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2¢ Subway Slayer’s Accomplice, 17, Is Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison By CHARLES KAISER Herman Spates, the 17-year-old accom- Plice in one of two subway murders com- mitted by Is-year-old Willie Bosket, Pleaded guilty to manslaughter. charges yesterday and was sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 vears in nrison. Mr. Spates is a cousin of young Bosket and was with him when the 15-year-old shot and killed Moises Perez last March 27 during a robbery in the last car of a Seventh Avenue IRT train traveling from 135th to 148th Streets. He was indicted on second-degree mur- der charges but the Manhattan District Attorney’s office agreed to permit him to plead guilty to the lesser charge of man- Slaughter in return for his testimony against his cousin. Acting Justice Irving Lang of Criminal Court in Manhattan said from the bench that it was “anomalous” that Mr. Spates, who he called the “nonkiller,”” was re- ceiving a much longer sentence than his cousin, who as a juvenile could only be sentenced to a maximum of five years under the law pervailing when he com- mitted his crimes. News reports of young Bosket's sen- tence led Governor Carey to abandon his longtime opposition to trials of juveniles in State Supreme Court for serious of- fenses, Under the bill the Legislature subse- quently passed and the Governor signed into law last month, defendants as young as 13 who are accused of murder can be tried in State Supreme Court and receive sentences of seven years to life. That law takes effect on Sept. 1. Governor Carey’s decision to endorse adult trials for youths accused of violent crimes was seen as a way of defusing the political issues some of his Opponents have made of his opposition to the death penalty. ~ Judge Lang said he hoped the new law would act as a deterrent to “young people who think they can commit serious crimes with virtual impunity.” He said fewer crimes rather than longer: sen- tences could be the new law’s “ultimate benefit.”” When Mr, Spates was first brought be- fore Judge Lang yesterday morning, he said, “‘I want my plea back because I don’t like what I'm being offered.” The justice told the defendant he could withdraw his guilty plea and go to trial, but he warned Mr. Spates that he could be sentenced to 15 years to life in Prison if he was convicted of the more serious second- degree murder charge. After further con- sultations with his lawyers, Mr. Spates returned to the courtroom in the after- noon reinstated his plea of guilty to the manslaughter charge. Justice Lang then Pronounced sentence.Freed Killer Guilty In Assault Case Willie Bosket Jr., whose slaying of two subway passengers in 1978 led to stiffer penalties for juveniles who kill, was convicted yesterday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan of at- tempted assault. Mr. Bosket, who said he had com- mitted the murders ‘‘for the experi- ence,’’ was arrested last March and accused of trying to rob and assault a T2-year-old man at knifepoint in a Harlem apartment building lobby. The crime took place about three months after Mr. Bosket completed a five-year term for the murders. Mr. Bosxet, 22 years old, could get seven ye s on the attempted-assault charge. Tic jury acquitted him of a charge 0° a'tempted robbery. Sen- es ae | ~wHRharaAsalian Sax fants 18The New pg. B2 The Region Bosket Recaptured After Goshen Escape New York State authorities yester- day reported the escape and recapture about two hours later of 16-year-old Willie Bosket, whose involvement in two New York City subway murders persuaded Governor Carey to endorse the idea of adult trials for violent juve- nile offenders. Young Bosket escaped along with nine other inmates of the Division of Youth’s detent iin center for boys at upstate Goshen. The authorities said one of the youths set upon a security guard Monday night with a mop handle, seized his keys and was joined by the others in escaping. All were taken back into custody fol- lowing a state police search of the vi- cinity, authorities said. The Bosket youth had beer sentenced in Manhat-Man Whose Killings Led to Tougher Law Is Convicted Again KINGSTON, N.Y., Feb. 21 (AP) — Willie Bosket Jr., whose five-year sen- tence for two subway murders led New) York State to toughen its penalties for) juvenile violence, was found guilty to- day of attempted murder in the 1988 stabbing of a prison guard. The 26-year-old inmate — who de-| fended himself and told the jury that he was a “monster” spawned by the legal system — was convicted of first-degree attempted murder, first-degree as- Sault, third-degree criminal possession. of a weapon and first-degree promotion! of prison contraband. Mr. Bosket stabbed the guard, Earl Porter, with a homemade knife on! April 16 at the Shawangunk Correc- tional Facility in Wallkill. Sentencing is scheduled for March 21. Mr. Bosket is serving 25 years to life for assault and arson in cases that came after the subway killings, plus three years of a previous sentence. He now faces a minimum sentence of 15 years to life and a maximum of 25 years to life in the attempted-murder case. The new sentence would have to be served consecutively to the term he is already serving. Mr. Bosket admitted in court last week that he stabbed Mr. Porter and said his only regret was that he had failed to Kill the guard. Mr. Bosket said, he hoped to use the trial to expose what} he said was the dishonesty of a legal system that made him a “monster.” Mr. Bosket gained notoriety in 1978 as one of those whose cases prompted a change in the way the state treats vio- lent juveniles. In March of that year, he killed two New York City subway 2/22(?94[ols9 Bosket is Charged in Jail-Guard Attack WOODBOURNE, Wille Bosket has n Wiech es charged with assauit after hitting a prison guard with a chain Tuesday, officials said yesterday. Mr. Bosket was being led from his cell in the state prison here to an exercise yard, a spokesman for the Correctional Services Depart- ment, James B. Flateau, said. Mr. Bosket removed a restraining chain from his waist to hit the guard, Mr. Flateau said. ‘‘He then ran into his cell and closed the door,” the offi- ciai added. The guard required stiches to close a six-inch head Jacer- ation, Mr. Flateau said. Mr. Bosket is serving 28 years to life for assault and arson and for being a persistent felon. He faces an additional 15 years to life when he is sentenced April 19 for attempted murder, He was convicted of stabbing a guard last year at the Shawangunk prison. In 1978, Mr. Bosket, at the age of 15, murdered two men in robberies in the 2, cal Se ee hey. ais. he ae| Lezendizing Himsett’ With No Way Out, |He Blames Prisons ; Donald Williams, the Ulster County assistant district attorney who tried the case, feels the stabbing ‘was just another attempt to gain attention.” “He knows he’ll never get out of prison, so he's attempting to legendize himself,” he said. This explains Mr. Bosket’s strategy at the trial, Mr. Williams suggested, in which Mr. Bosket admitted in his open- ing statement that he had stabbed the guard, Ear! Porter. “Tam telling you that the only regret Willie Bosket has is not killing Earl Porter,” he told the jury. “I am going to show you why and I am going to show you why Willie Bos- ket is coming to hate this system.” Mr. Williams and prison officials wonder what the system can do with a prisoner like Mr. Bosket who continues to commit crimes in jail? Mr. Bosket does not took dangerous — slightly built at § feet 9 inches and 150 pounds, he has a handsome, dimpled face. But, according to one Ppresentencing report, since 1984 Mr. Bosket has set fire to his cell seven times, attacked his guards nine times and attempted sev- eral escapes, He has made many crude knives, thrown feces at guards and swallowed light fixtures and mattress springs to make himself sick. After he set his cell afire in 1986 and assaulted a guard who came in to put out the blaze, he was found guilty of being a “persistent felon.” Normally, for the fire and assault, he would have received 314 to 7 years. But as a persistent felon, he got 25 to life. There was irony in this, said James the 3[2e (99Youth Held in 2 Murders Asked For Pl By CIIARLES KAISER, ment in a Foster Home New York Times. (1857-Current file); Sul 20, 1978; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 -7 pg. B2 Youth Held in 2 Murders Asked For Placement i na Foster Home By CHARLES KAISER One month before 15-year-old Willie Bosket killed two subway passengers and seriously wounded a subway motorman, he asked to be placed in a foster home outside New York City, the director of the State Division for Youth said yesterday. The director, Peter B. Edelman, con. firmed that this had happened after an upstate legislator charged on the floor of the Assembly that because of “bureau- cratic garbage” young Bosket had not been sent to the foster home before he, committed the murders. Mr. Edelman denied the charge by Assemblyman Arthur 0. Eve, Democrat of Buffalo, that bureaucratic red tape was responsible for the delay, although he conceded that ordinarily there was a one-month period necessary to certify anyone who volunteered to be a foster parent. Volunteer Offered Home The director said an employee of the | Upstate Brookwood Center had volun- | teered to be the Bosket youth's foster par- ent and he was scheduled to be moved to her home ae week after the two murders occurred in late-March. The Bosket youth had been released from the Srookwood Center six months before he committed the two murders. Because he was released over the objec- tions of some of the center's employees, Governor Carey said there had been ‘“‘a breakdown of the system’ and ‘‘the| blame is squarely on the shoulders’’ of the Division for Youth. Mr. Eve charged that the Basket youth had agreed to fo to the foster home be- cause he was afraid he might go insane. Mr. Edelman said, “'I think that’s an in. ference," adding, “he had problems in terms of his adjustment to the communi- »-"" and therefore needed to be moved Out of the city. “The ultimate result was a terrible tragedy," Mr. Edelman said. No Remorse Shown by Youth The Bosket youth showed no remorse when he was sentenced Jast month in 3amily Court in Manhattan toa maximim five years in either a “secure” or residen- tial facility. Court officials described him as both ‘‘cold-blooded and an avid read- er His highly publicized case resulted in an abrupt reversal of Governor Carey's Position on the prosecution of youths under the age of 16. The day after the Bosket youth's five. year sentence was announced, the Gover- nor said for the first time that he would support giving prosecutors the discretion to try juveniles in adult courts if the Legislature approved money tor his other suggested improvements in the criminal justice system. Under the crime package passed yes- terday by the State Legislature, juveniles accused of murder and some other vio- lent crimes would automatically be tried in State Supreme Court untess the prose- cutor and judge agreed to send their cases back to the juvenile court,