Former Lawyer Who Fled With Inmate Gets Parole, Clerk’s Job
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Disbarred lawyer Mary Evans, who spent nearly five months on the run with an escaped prisoner she was representing, will be freed Monday for a clerical job at a tube factory.
Evans, 28, served more than 10 months of a three-year prison sentence for helping William Timothy Kirk escape from a penitentiary where he had faced murder charges in a prison uprising. FBI agents captured them together in Daytona Beach, Fla., in August, 1983.
Glenn Hodges, president of Kimberlin Heights Industries Inc. in Knoxville, said his new employee will be doing some clerical work and may even do some work on the assembly line.
Hodges, who said he belongs to the same Baptist church as Evans’ parents, said he wants the news media to leave her alone.
Evans, who got the prison term after she refused to apologize for her crime, has been working in Chattanooga as part of a work-release program.
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