Word: firearm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grandfather spent his time in a castle called San Simeon. For Patricia Hearst, 22, the foreseeable future will be spent in a California prison cell. Convicted last March of armed robbery and of using a firearm to commit a felony, Patty came to U.S. district court in San Francisco last week for sentencing. With her counselor Episcopal Priest Edward John Dumke seated behind her, along with Father Randolph Hearst, owner-publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, and Mother Catherine, the 90-lb. heiress stood tight-lipped as Judge William Orrick Jr. sentenced her to seven years, minus 371 days...
...department is currently trying to improve its manpower by sending officers to the State Police academy and training them in arrest laws, firearm use and report writing...
...used in the prosecution of gun-related crimes. But James Beha, who directed the project for the center, said yesterday that the law was only used in one-quarter of all gun-related prosecutions in the past year and attributed this to the strictness of the Massachusetts firearm regulations...
...evidence available in most prosecutions for firearms crime simply cannot measure up to the rigid evidentiary requirements of the firearm licensing laws," Beha said. "The result is that Bartley-Fox charges can be successfully included in only a fraction of the prosecutions for crimes committed with a gun," he added...
...some ways she took it a good deal better than her lawyers." So said Albert Johnson, a leading member of Patty Hearst's defense team last week, after the 22-year-old publishing heiress was found guilty of armed bank robbery and use of a firearm to commit a felony. The prisoner had visits from her parents and spent several hours talking to probation officers who will issue recommendations on her sentence. The rest of the week she read, watched TV and ate her meals with other inmates. Though she could draw as much as 35 years in prison...