[SamAdams76]

The wiki article you reference has a section ("Early Career") that disturbs me. He apparently admitted to "prolific drug use" during the 1970s and was turned down for a CIA job but was hired in 1979 by Naval Intelligence in which top secret security clearances were required. The CIA did not disclose to Naval Intelligence Pollard's extensive drug use history and Pollard evidently did not volunteer it.

From there, several high-ranking officials sought to have Pollard dismissed but their efforts were stymied by bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Pollard was shuffled from one department to another where he exhibited increasingly bizarre behavior - such as attempting to vomit in order to invalidate a polygraph test.

Read the entire article, I'm not inclined to have much sympathy for his predicament.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

As I said earlier when I was criticized for linking to Wiki, I included the Wiki article, because it included a wide amount of information about this unfortunate railroading a man who was doublecrossed by the prosecution, which explicitly promised a light sentence in exchange for a plea. This would be an injustice no matter what the religion of the person. Evidence was hidden from the defense. All in all the whole prosecution process should have been done again, given how botched it was.