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...women and five men spoke, the defendant sat erect, pale but composed and dry-eyed, while her lawyers leaned toward her protectively. Last week, after only twelve hours of deliberation, a San Francisco jury ruled that Patricia Campbell Hearst was guilty of armed bank robbery and of using a firearm to commit a felony...
...April, Carter is scheduled to pass sentence on Patty. The maximum-but unlikely-penalty: 35 years in prison (25 for willingly taking part in the armed robbery of a branch of the Hibernia Bank on April 15, 1974; ten for the ancillary charge of use of a firearm while committing a felony). The minimum possible sentence: simple probation...
...facts support this position, arguing that the relatively small number of accidents does not provide a compelling reason to ban handguns. The National Safety Council reports that in 1973 less than .005 per cent of all handguns were involved in fatal accidents--in that year there were 2700 accidental firearm deaths in the U.S. or 1.3 per 100,000 persons with less than half of this from handguns. Former Lynn mayor Warren Cassidy of the Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) argues that this rate is no worse than for many other commonly-used articles. He says that in 1973 poisoning...
Long live the National Rifle Association. It will be a sad day for America when the brownshirts are able to knock down my door because I am the suspected owner of a firearm...
...requires that the state have on file the name of everyone who purchases a firearm, with the penalty for non-compliance a mandatory year in jail...