A.V. MAN ORDERED TO STAND TRIAL IN KILLING.Byline: Marci Wormser Staff Writer LANCASTER - A Lancaster man has been ordered to stand trial on murder, attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. and robbery charges from a fatal carjacking The criminal taking of a motor vehicle from its driver by force, violence, or intimidation. The u.s. justice department categorizes the crime of carjacking as a "completed or attempted Robbery of a motor vehicle by a stranger attempt in August and two home-invasion robberies an hour later. A teenager will stand trial in connection with the home invasion home invasion n. Burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home. Noun 1. home invasion - burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home robberies, but not in the slaying, officials said Tuesday. Lancaster Superior Court Commissioner John Murphy A number of people have been named John Murphy
Blakney is being prosecuted as an adult. Prosecutors asserted Taylor, Blakney and Robert Wayne Klingman III, 21, of Lancaster were present when 68-year-old Ladd Franklin Schweitzer of Palmdale was shot after refusing to hand over his money to a gunman who had stopped his van on an isolated two-lane road. Prosecutors say the three then committed two home-invasion robberies in a Lancaster neighborhood. Klingman was shot and killed by a deputy about an hour after the home- invasion robberies after he pointed a pistol at deputies who were talking to Taylor and Blakney, officials said. Klingman drove up after the pair were arrested while walking along 15th Street East. A ballistics ballistics (bəlĭs`tĭks), science of projectiles. Interior ballistics deals with the propulsion and the motion of a projectile within a gun or firing device. test helped link the two crimes, officials said. Schweitzer was shot shortly after 11 p.m. Aug. 22 as he tried to drive away from a would-be robber, who had parked a car to block traffic on 70th Street East near Avenue N, homicide investigators said. The two home invasion robberies occurred around midnight on Aug. 23 and left a homeowner and a neighbor wounded. |
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