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Kane's plea proved futile. The House committee promptly approved the resolution by voice vote, and next day it went sailing through the full House by a vote of 386 to 12. The Senate seemed certain to add its assent...
Judge Kelleher denied Boyce's plea, and the prisoner decided to take matters into his own hands once again. He had kept himself in excellent condition-a regimen of ten miles a day on the track, weight training and yoga-to be fit enough to flee through the rough, hilly terrain outside the prison. In addition, he must have been aware that Lompoc was in the process of converting to its new maximum security status. Within two months officials will install a sophisticated $67,000 alarm system along the inner fence that will sense the slightest pressure and would...
...time his lawyer began plea-bargaining last October, the hard evidence was there. Kenneth Bianchi, 27, a Bellingham, Wash., security guard was in deed the Hillside Strangler, responsible for the murder of ten young women in Los Angeles from September 1977 to February 1978 - as well as two later killings in Washington that resulted in his arrest...
...elicited a confession from a sneering Mr. Hyde character who called himself "Steve Walker." But the mystery of Bianchi's supposed multiple personality became irrelevant when he avoided the death sentence by pleading guilty and agreeing to testify against his cousin and alleged accomplice, Angelo Buono. That plea rendered Bianchi competent in the eyes of the law. It also earned him six concurrent and two consecutive life sentences...
...capital punishment but show mercy to the others." For Kim Jae Kyu, former Korean Central Intelligence Agency chief accused of murdering President Park Chung Hee last Oct. 26, the words were a defiant attempt to assume total responsibility for the assassination, for which six accomplices were also charged. His plea was in vain. Last week Kim, standing haggard and unshaven before a military tribunal in Seoul, was condemned to death with six others for his abortive coup attempt, which was described by one of the defendants as having been "like a rebellion in a medieval court...