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Gigante escaped conviction on bribery charges in 1969 by producing a number of prominent psychiatrists who testified that Gigante was legally insane, suffering from schizophrenia, dementia, psychosis, and various other mental disorders.
Gigante was convicted on several racketeering, conspiracy, and related charges in the summer of 1997, and sentenced to prison, despite his lawyers' and psychiatrists' claims that he has been quite mad for more than 30 years, and thus incapable of running a large and sophisticated organized crime operation.
As part of a plea bargainA plea bargain is an agreement in a criminal case where a prosecutor and a defendant arrange to end the case against the defendant. The defendant agrees to plead guilty or no contest (and often allocute) to the offense charged, or to a lesser offense, or in an obstruction of justiceObstruction of justice in a common law state, refers to the crime of offering interference of any sort to the work of police, investigators, regulatory agencies, prosecutors, or other (usually government) officials. Often, no actual investigation or subst trial stemming from his efforts to delay his racketeering trial, on April 7April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). There are 268 days remaining. Events 529 first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I 1348 Char, 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U, Gigante admitted in court that his insanityInsanity (sometimes, madness is the condition of being in some way mentally "out of touch" with the real world or with "normal" human functioning, often assumed to be a result of a mental illness. A person may be said to be insane for a number of reasons. was an act. He received a sentence of three years, to be served after his current sentence is completed. He is now due for release in 20102010 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). See also: 2010: Odyssey Two Events January 15 Annular solar eclipse (The longest lasting annular eclipse of the 21st century. February 12 to February 28 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled in Va.