DELANEY TO STAND TRIAL ON STABBINGS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A Lancaster man was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on 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. for what prosecutors say were racially motivated stabbings of two African-American men at two local bars. Sean Patrick Delaney, 23, who is white, was charged with the Feb. 17 attacks on Onus Clark and Shannon Thomas Shannon Thomas is the name of:
``The judge found there was enough evidence to hold him to trial,'' said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the 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 District Attorney's Office. Delaney, the son of former Lancaster mayoral candidate Tom Delaney Cyril Terence "Tom" Delaney (8 January 1911 - 31 August 2006) was a British sportsman and industrialist, perhaps best known in his later years for being the oldest licensed racing driver in the world, having competed in the same Lea-Francis car for more than three-quarters of a , has pleaded not guilty to the charges. If convicted on all of them, he could be sent to prison for two life terms. He remained in custody in lieu of $1 million bail. Delaney's attorney, 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 Richard Guluzza, said after Tuesday's preliminary hearing he could not comment pending a defense investigation. Tom Delaney dropped out of the mayoral race in March, citing the need to support his son. The incidents also prompted state and local representatives of the NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. to gather in March to urge Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley residents to join together in a united front against hate crimes. Deputies said Delaney and his father were ordered out of The Britisher in the 800 block of West Avenue I. The two had been harassing a female employee, and the younger Delaney screamed white-power slogans and racial remarks at other patrons, deputies said. The father and son left, but minutes later Sean Delaney walked back in alone, deputies said. Deputies said he stabbed patron Onus Clark, 44, of Lancaster in the neck with a butcher knife as Clark played pool. The assailant then fled the bar and ran across the street to The Tipsy Bull, where he walked up to patron Shannon Thomas, 37, of Lancaster, who had been waiting his turn to sing karaoke. The assailant stabbed Thomas in the chest. Bystanders got the knife away and wrestled Delaney to the ground, where they held him until deputies arrived. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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