Outside the Franklin County Jail, he bought a Columbus Dispatch and saw the front-page headline:

Police Arrest Suspect in Campus-Area Rapes

The story reported that one of the victims, a twenty-six-year-old graduate student raped almost two weeks earlier, would be asked to view a police line-up to identify' the suspect. And there at the top of the story was a mug shot labeled “Milligan.” Back in the public defender’s office, Schweickart called the other area newspapers and asked them not to run the photograph because it might prejudice the line-up on Monday. They turned him down. If they got the picture, they said, they’d run it. Schweickart scratched his beard with the bit of his pipe, then started to phone his wife to say he’d be late for dinner.

“Hey,” came a voice from the door of his office, “you look like a bear caught with his nose in a beehive.”

He looked up and saw the smiling face of Judy Stevenson. “Oh, yeah?” he growled, hanging up the receiver and smiling back. “Well, guess who asked for you?”

She brushed her long brunette hair back out of her face, revealing the beauty mark on her left cheekbone. Her hazel eyes questioned.

He pushed the newspaper toward her, pointed to the photograph and the headline, and his deep laugh filled the small office. “The line-up is Monday morning. Milligan asked for a lady lawyer. You've got the Campus Rapist.”

(4)

Judy Stevenson arrived at the police line-up at a quarter to ten Monday morning, October 31, and when they brought Milligan to the holding cell, she saw how frightened and desperate he looked.

“I’m from the public defenders office,” she said. “Gary Schweickart said you wanted a woman lawyer, so he and I will be working together. Now, just settle down. You look as if you’re going to fall apart.”

He handed her a folded paper. “My parole officer brought me this Friday.”

She uncreased it and saw it was an “Order to Hold” from the Adult Parole Authority, to keep Milligan in custody and to inform him that a preliminary hearing on a parole violation would be held in the Franklin County Jail. Because the police had discovered weapons at his home during his arrest, she realized, his parole could be revoked and he could be immediately sent back to Lebanon prison near Cincinnati to await trial.

“The hearing is a week from this Wednesday. We’ll see what we can do to keep you here. I’d rather have you in Columbus, where we can talk with you.”

“I don’t want to go back to Lebanon.”

“Now, just take it easy.”

“I don’t remember doing any of the things they said I did.” “We’ll have a conference later. Right now you’ve just got to go up on that platform and stand there. You think you can handle that?”

“I guess so.”

“Brush your hair out of your face so they’ll be able to see you clearly.”

The police officer led him up the steps to join the others in the line, and he was placed in the number 2 position.