EVERETT, Wash. - A Washington man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to two murders in a deadly crime spree through Washington, Oregon...
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Wash. man sentenced to life in NW killings
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Inslee denies shorter sentence for Marriam Oliver
Gov. Jay Inslee has denied a recommendation from the state's clemency board to grant a shortened sentence to a woman who is in the midst of a...
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Inslee denies shorter sentence for Marriam Oliver
Gov. Jay Inslee has denied a recommendation from the state's clemency board to grant a shortened sentence to a woman who is in the midst of a...
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Inslee denies shorter sentence for Marriam Oliver
Gov. Jay Inslee has denied a recommendation from the state's clemency board to grant a shortened sentence to a woman who is in the midst of a...
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Wash. man sentenced to life in NW killings
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Washington man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to two murders in a deadly crime spree through Washington,...
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Inslee denies shorter sentence for Marriam Oliver
Gov. Jay Inslee has denied a recommendation from the state's clemency board to grant a shortened sentence to a woman who is in the midst of a...
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Convict speaks of remorse at resentencing
SARASOTA COUNTY - The man in navy blue jail garb held yellow pages from a legal pad in his shaking hands. He walked to the witness stand, shuffling his shackled feet. After two and a half days of hearing attorneys, experts, relatives and his victim talking about his past and future, it was time for Jireh Kleppinger to speak for himself. Kleppinger, 35, was sentenced to life in prison in 1997 after he and another inmate beat Wayne Allen, a corrections officer at the Sarasota County Jail, in an escape attempt. He was 17 at the time of the attack. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Graham v. Florida that juveniles cannot be sentenced to life without parole. As a result, Kleppinger's life...
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Pennsylvania teen gets up to 20 years prison for highway rock toss
By David DeKok LEWISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - A teenager apologized on Thursday to an Ohio teacher who suffered brain damage when her head was split open by a rock he dropped from a highway overpass, then faced a judge who sentenced him to up to 20 years in prison. Dylan Lahr, the admitted ringleader of a group that hurled stones from the...
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Trial leaves burned boy's parents mixture of relief, loss
The parents of a man who died just short of his 21st birthday, 13 years after a teenage boy set fire to him, say they're relieved by the attacker's capital murder conviction and 40-year prison sentence. Bobby and Colleen Middleton said that relief is tempered by a renewed sense of loss the trial of Don Collins left them over the death of son Robbie. The burns Robbie suffered on his eighth birthday led to a lifetime of pain and surgeries before cancer blamed on his burns killed him just short of his 21st birthday. "So much was stolen from us," Colleen Middleton told the Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1ArPwOT ). Collins, who's now 29 but was 13 at the time of the attack, received the maximum...
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Former Woodland Park cop sentenced to five years for attempted assault on girl
Calling his crimes “horrible” and “mind-boggling” a judge Wednesday sentenced former police officer Steven E. Vigorito, Jr. to five years in prison for attempting to arrange to have sex with a girl whose mother had brought her to police headquarters seeking help. AMY NEWMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Former Woodland Park police officer Steven Vigorito Jr. in court for his sentencing...
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Behind one Supreme Court case, the tale of forgiveness for sister's killer
In her final moments, Nancy Bishop Langert somehow summoned the strength to crawl across the basement floor. There, lying beside her husband, she used her index finger to write a message – in her own blood. At the trial of the 16-year-old high school student who shot and killed the young couple – and their unborn child – a desperate defense lawyer suggested that perhaps Mrs. Langert was trying to spell out the name of a killer other than his client. Langert’s sister, Jeanne Bishop, knew better. The message, the symbol of a heart and the letter “U,” is exactly how Nancy signed her notes and holiday cards. Recommended: How much do you know about the US Constitution? A quiz. “It wasn’t until a...
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Fan punches woman: Jets' fan who punches Pats' fan in face is convicted killer (Video)
The Jets’ fan who punched a woman at Sunday's game is a convicted killer who did time in prison. Fox News on Oct. 22, is reporting this morning that the man on the video punching the woman dressed in New England Patriots' garb was convicted in 1992 of stabbing a teen to death during a scuffle. The Jets’ fan has been identified as 38-year-old Kurt Paschke, a bartender from...
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Victim’s mother praises verdicts
The grief-stricken mom of an innocent teen murdered in a gang turf war two years ago said yesterday’s convictions of her son’s killers have finally brought her some relief. “It doesn’t make me happy because they’re just children, but I am happy,” said Diane Simmons, mother of 16-year-old...
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With Ariel Castro, Precedent Suggests No Death Penalty
The lawyer for freed Cleveland captives Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus said last week that he may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro on the grounds of his alleged forced abortions. After repeatedly raping and impregnating Knight, police sources said, Castro would starve and beat her until she miscarried. Pro-life types have already been using the possible murder charge to suggest abortion is immoral, but most states, including Ohio, recognize forced miscarriage as a crime (though the laws are increasingly used to prosecute women who lose fetuses in suicide attempts and due to drug addictions). Legal experts told Reuters that the case would be hard to prove without...
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Missouri life sentence for juveniles still in flux
A western Missouri prosecutor who heads a statewide association for prosecuting attorneys said Tuesday that lawmakers' failure to pass a new sentencing structure for juveniles could delay or jeopardize the trials of teens accused of murder. Under Missouri law, anyone convicted of first-degree murder is either sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole. A U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2005 said death sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional, leaving life without parole as the only sentencing option for Missourians younger than 18 who are convicted of murder. But in June 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down...
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Heavy sentences for farm murder trio
Pietermaritzburg - The killers of popular KwaZulu-Natal farmer Willem Weites have been sentenced to life in prison. Mzomuhle Ntshangase, 30, and Moses Sigawuge, 34, were jailed for life plus 15 years for robbery with aggravating...
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Vryheid farm murder trio handed heavy sentences
Pietermaritzburg - The killers of KwaZulu-Natal farmer Willem Weites have been sentenced to life in prison. Mzomuhle Ntshangase, 30, and Moses Sigawuge, 34, were jailed for life plus 15 years for robbery with aggravating circumstances...
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Pivotal parole decision in teen girl's death
Tony Roman Nose was two months shy of his 18th birthday when prosecutors say he raped and killed a teenage girl, stabbing her 29 times with a screwdriver. He was convicted in 2001 and received a mandatory sentence of life in prison without release, and the victim's family believed he'd never be free to hurt anyone else. But that changed last year when a Washington County judge decided to retroactively apply a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down mandatory life without parole for juveniles. The judge resentenced Roman Nose to life with the possibility of release, giving him a chance for freedom in 17 years. The state Supreme Court is reviewing the case, and its decision could affect...
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51 years for former Delray teen who murdered mother's boyfriend
Berenice Juarez, who was 16 when she stabbed to death her mother's boyfriend, on Thursday received a new sentence of 51 years in prison.lRelated Palm Beach County NewsBerenice JuarezSee all related 8 Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Karen Miller said Juarez, now 21, deserved a reduced term for the stabbing death of Gildardo Ramos Paz, 47, on Feb. 17, 2010 in Delray Beach. Former Delray teen who murdered mother's boyfriend to be re-sentenced Marc Freeman Before Berenice Juarez became a convicted killer at age 18, the Delray Beach teen suffered the horror...
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Monongalia County Teen Sentenced for Involvement in Skylar Neese's Murder
Monongalia County Circuit Judge Russell Clawges has sentenced a Monongalia County teen for her involvement in the July 2012 murder of Skylar Neese. Judge Clawges sentenced Shoaf to 30 years in a state prison for the second degree murder of Skylar Neese. Judge Clawges denied Shoaf's attorney's request to sentence Shoaf as a juvenile. However, Shoaf will remain in a juvenile facility until her 18th birthday, at which time a hearing will be held to determine Shoaf's placement in an adult correctional facility. Shoaf will also be required to pay restitution for Skylar's funeral expenses and court costs. Shoaf spoke at the...
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