Ordeal by Legal Terror

On April 14, 1983, Edward Rózek, a University of Colorado professor, was charged with 22 felony counts, including theft, embezzlement, forgery, and charitable fraud. The special prosecutor asked the judge to impose a $10,000 bond. Rozek was then handcuffed and taken to jail, where he was fingerprinted and imprisoned for the second time in his life.

The first imprisonment was more than forty years ago, when the young Polish freedom-fighter was caught by the Nazis. This second time was in the United States, in Boulder County, Colorado. Rozek wasn’t at all surprised by the first imprisonment. But the second left a scar that won’t go away.

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Elizabeth Hatfield McParland

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On April 14, 1983, Edward Rózek, a University of Colorado professor, was charged with 22 felony counts, including theft, embezzlement, forgery, and charitable fraud. The special prosecutor asked the judge to impose a $10,000 bond. Rozek was then handcuffed and taken to jail, where he was fingerprinted and imprisoned for the second time in his life.

The first imprisonment was more than forty years ago, when the young Polish freedom-fighter was caught by the Nazis. This second time was in the United States, in Boulder County, Colorado. Rozek wasn’t at all surprised by the first imprisonment. But the second left a scar that won’t go away.