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 Wysłany: Śro 12:10, 26 Sty 2011 Temat postu: parring and a trial that spanned most of this year |
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| parring and a trial that spanned most of this year, the U.S. Justice Department has failed in its long and costly bid to get a rare federal death sentence against a reputed gang leader whose violence stretched across the Bay Area, California and Nevada.In a verdict reached last week, a federal jury in San Jose refused to recommend the death penalty for 35-year-old Anh The Duong, who was implicated in eight murders and found guilty in September of 29 racketeering charges related to a crime spree that unfolded more than a decade ago. The verdict ensures that Duong will receive life in prison without the possibility of parole when he is sentenced in February by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel.Duong, however, is already on California's death row for the 1999 murders of four people in an El Monte pool hall, crimes that were part of the federal racketeering case. Despite the state death sentence, federal prosecutors decided to push for the death penalty in the federal system, where Duong would most likely face a much swifter path to execution. But the jury, which was selected earlier this year and began hearing evidence in June, declined to impose the ultimate punishment.The trial marked just the second time in the past 50 years that a defendant has faced |
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