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BRIEFLY : TEENS ENTER NOT GUILTY PLEA IN FATAL STABBING.


Three Chatsworth teen-agers pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that they fatally stabbed a man at a Woodland Hills birthday party last week and seriously injured another youth.

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, 19, Christopher Paonessa, 18, and Dino Ferrari Riggio, 18, denied charges of 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. , assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. , conspiracy to commit assault and burglary.

They are accused in connection with the stabbing of Jason Allan Shaw, 20.

Shaw was killed at the Woodland Hills home he shared with two others after a fight broke out at a birthday party, said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  County Deputy District Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino.

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Ex-lawmaker draws jail term in 3rd DUI

VENTURA - Former Assemblyman and state energy czar Charles Imbrecht was sentenced Monday to 40 days in jail and five years' probation after pleading guilty to drunk driving - his third DUI conviction.

The former GOP official was arrested Dec. 7 in Ventura and booked with a blood-alcohol level of 0.33 - more than four times the legal limit. He also had a small amount of marijuana in his car, police said.

In exchange for the guilty plea, Judge Charles Campbell Charles Campbell can refer to several people:
  • Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy, aristocrat
  • Charles C. Campbell, US Army general and FORSCOM commander
  • Charles Rodman Campbell, executed convict
 agreed to drop a drug possession charge.

Imbrecht resigned from his $103,178-a-year job as head of the state Energy Commission just before the DUI charges were filed.

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Boy's mother charged in fatal fire at home

LANCASTER - The mother of a 9-year-old boy who died in a Feb. 3 fire was charged Monday with murdering him by leaving him to die in the family's burning mobile home.

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 court records, Catherine Fimbres, 37, confided in an acquaintance that she found her mentally retarded son, Luis Jaime Fimbres, screaming in a bathroom as flames spread through the adjoining bedroom but shut the door and left him.

``It appears that the child may have started the fire, so she may have been upset with him for starting the house on fire,'' said Deputy District Attorney Kelly Cromer.

About 20 people attended the hearing in support of Fimbres, who Deputy Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was  Mitchell Bruckner described as a caring mother.

``There is nothing to indicate that this is the type of woman who would let her child die like that,'' Bruckner said.

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