SOUTH BEND, Indiana — The 94-year-old father of ex-US Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard, convicted of spying for Israel, on Sunday said he can't sleep at night because of his son's life prison sentence.
Ninety-four-year-old Morris Pollard said the 1987 sentence of his son is "such an overwhelming miscarriage of justice" that he keeps "waking up fighting with people" in his imagination.
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Jonathan Pollard is now 54. He worked as a civilian intelligence analyst when he was arrested, tried and convicted of passing US secrets to Israel.
His father is a cancer researcher and director of the Lobund Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame.
