BRIEFLY : MAN JAILED AFTER FIRES SET AT HIS EX'S HOME.OAK VIEW - A Ventura man was arrested early Thursday morning on suspicion of setting fire to the home his former girlfriend shares with her boyfriend after verbally harassing them for much of the night. Franklin Nixon, 51, was being held on $250,000 bail and faces charges of 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 arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. in the pre-dawn blaze BLAZE - A single assignment language for parallel processing. ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)]. at the North Dale Avenue home. Authorities said an Oak View couple called 911 at 1:45 a.m. after they found a fire inside a hallway closet and another at the front door. Although the couple put out the fires with a garden hose, firefighters found several others burning on the side of the house. The couple led authorities to Franklin, who they said had been calling and threatening them. He was arrested by Ventura police at Hemlock hemlock, any tree of the genus Tsuga, coniferous evergreens of the family Pinaceae (pine family) native to North America and Asia. The common hemlock of E North America is T. and Main streets as he drove home. - Daily News Last election forum set at senior center MOORPARK - The Moorpark Senior Center will hold the final candidates forum for the local election, at which seniors will be able to question candidates on the issues the day before they go to the polls. The forum is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. at the center, 799 Moorpark Ave. Officials said nearly all candidates for mayor and City Council are expected to attend. The center asks that audience members be ages 55 and over. For more information, call (805) 529-6864, Ext. 261. - Daily News Killer won't see new death-penalty effort VENTURA - Prosecutors will not try again for the death penalty in the case against convicted killer Robert Cruz McLain, letting stand his sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole parole (pərōl`), in criminal law, release from prison of a convict before the expiration of his term on condition that his activities be restricted and that he report regularly to an officer. for the 1979 death of Joni Kelley, District Attorney Michael Bradbury said Thursday. The state Supreme Court affirmed af·firm v. af·firmed, af·firm·ing, af·firms v.tr. 1. To declare positively or firmly; maintain to be true. 2. To support or uphold the validity of; confirm. v.intr. McLain's conviction and death sentence, but a subsequent federal court proceeding overturned that sentence. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to review the case. Officials said it has taken 19 years since the murder to conclude litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. arising from the original trial. Since McLain is 58 and in poor health, a new death-penalty trial was not justified, officials said. - Daily News |
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