The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 16, 1978, Page Page 4, Image 4
Judge Son
By JANE SHEXLY
News Editor
Joseph N. Sorrentino, said to be
the "best juvenile court judge in
the world" by trial lawyer F. Lee
Bailey, spoke about his experiences
as a street gang hood
and urged "a better deal for
juvenile offenders in a noon lecture
at the law auditorium yesterday.
Sneakino ahnirt hie arlnlpcnpnt
years in the streets of Brooklyn ,
Sorrentino said, "That's where the
action was. I worked during the
day as a chicken plucker, scraping
up droppings. But at night I was a
Condor. I'd put on this shimmering
satinette jacket and strut down the
street with 50 Condors and about 50
Condorettes. I was cool. We were
all cool."
Sorrentino was sent to a reformatory
at age 14 and to jail at 16
years-old. He had failed high
school.
The murder of Sorrentino's best
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mciiu, uie ^nuor gang leaaer,
changed Sorrentino's mind about
the life he was leading.
According to Sorrentino, the 16
year-old gang leader was taking
bets on the street when the Mafia
first asked him to stop. He con-;
tinued and was approached a
second time.
"They (the mafia) strung a
piano wire around his neck, put a
45 (pistol) at his head and told him
he was going to die soon,"
Sorrentino said. "They let him
agonize for about 20 minutes or so
with that wire around his jugular
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before they shot him, ran him over
(with a car) and left him in the
street for all of us to see.
"I decided the mafia was too
violent for me, so I joined the
Marines."
Sorrentino joined the Marines at
Parris Island, S.C. He was
discharged at the age of 18 for
fighting. He returned home to
t_
worK.
"When I came out of that place I
was at the bottom of the barrel,
Sorrentino said. Without a high
school diploma he found himself
going from one "rock bottom job to
another."
He began to attend night school.
Sorrentino finished high school and
was graduated magna cum laude
from the University of California
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Correction
on
Liber tar ianism
The Gamecock wishes to rectify
two mistakes in its March 13
edition concerning philosophy
professor Philip Dematteis's
recent speech on Libertarianism to
the Clariosophic Society.
Dematteis said the libertarians
"do" judge the morals of government
by the same morals they
judge people.
Also, he called for reforms
requested by the people and "not"
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