Jimmy Boyle (artist) Jimmy Boyle (artist) James Boyle (born 17 May 1944) is a Scottish gangster and convicted murderer who became a sculptor and novelist after his release from prison. In 1967, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another gangland figure, William "Babs" Rooney, but released after 14 years. He has always denied killing Rooney but has acknowledged having been a violent and sometimes ruthless moneylender from the Gorbals, one of the roughest areas of Glasgow. During his incarceration in the special unit of Barlinnie Prison, he turned to art and wrote an autobiography, "A Sense of Freedom" (1977),
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. he oversees as part of the Criminal Justice Institute. He represented one of the Jena Six defendants, and never lost a case during his years in Washington, D.C.'s Public Defender Services office. On June 9th, 2016 was announced and confirmed by several news outlets that's Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. will be part of the head legal defense "Dream Team" for the convicted ex-NFL New England Patriots football star player Aaron Hernandez double murder case. Sullivan supported fellow Harvard Law School alumnus Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election where he chaired then-Senator Obama's Criminal Justice Policy Group. As a law