Gunman in Smart case wants out of prison
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William Flynn depicts himself as a do-gooder, a member of the Jaycees who has a wife and teenage stepdaughter and likes to play softball.
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A man who went to prison two decades ago for setting his 6-year-old son on fire in a custody dispute was found guilty Tuesday of illegally possessing a gun &#151; a conviction that could send him to prison for life.
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A Cuban militant accused of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner wants a federal judge to let him out of jail while the U.S. government continues searching for a country where it can deport him.
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The attorney for American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh wants his client's 20-year prison sentence commuted, citing the nation's heightened anxiety when the plea deal was made in 2002 and the fact that another U.S. citizen captured on an Afghanistan battlefield may soon be released.
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One of the notorious Texas Seven, who escaped from prison and killed a police officer during more than a month on the run, has told court officials he wants to drop all appeals to speed up his execution.
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The three suspects in the shooting escaped the scene, setting off a widespread search.
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A man carrying a fake gun and wearing dark camouflage paint on his face was being sought on Thursday for attempting to break into billionaire Warren Buffett's home in Omaha, Nebraska, police said.
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A shooting suspect holed up inside a central Illinois bank with hostages Thursday after a sheriff's deputy was shot in the face a few miles away, authorities said.
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A defense attorney for a serial killer who wants to die said Sunday that he will remain on the case, a decision that officials said keeps the inmate on track to become the first person executed in New England in 45 years.
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A man charged with preparing a terrorist attack is due to appear in court.
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PITTSBURGH -- The gunman who wounded five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance last year pleaded guilty Friday and will spend up to 40 years in prison.
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An attorney for Jack Kevorkian asked the state parole board Monday to recommend that the assisted suicide advocate be released from prison for health reasons.
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An ex-convict who admitted to gunning down three men this week in New Hampshire said on Thursday he had warned authorities he was still dangerous when he was released from prison two months ago.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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A man accused of suffocating a family of three during a violent rampage entered into a last-minute plea agreement Tuesday that will spare him the death penalty.
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A man who was wanted in a shooting that wounded a sheriff's deputy and later took five hostages in a bank surrendered late Thursday, authorities said.
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An 18-year-old man suspected of plotting a killing spree at a high school pleaded no contest to charges that will result in a five-year state prison sentence.