DUO GET PRISON IN RAPE, KIDNAP.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer 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. - Two 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 men who were convicted in the kidnap and rape of a murder informant were sentenced Tuesday to prison terms. James Shannon James Michael Shannon (born April 4 1952), also known as Jim Shannon, is a Democratic politician from Massachusetts. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and later as the Massachusetts Attorney General. was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, and Miguel Gonzalez received a five-year prison term. The sentencing for defendant Gabriel Gonzalez, who is Miguel Gonzalez's uncle, was postponed to mid-December to allow the judge time to review information about a prior conviction for 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. , officials said. ``It was put over to look into one of his prior convictions, just the facts surrounding it. The judge likes to consider them before sentencing,'' Deputy District Attorney Lisa Chung said. The victim, a 24-year-old Palmdale woman, told deputies her captors accused her of being a ``snitch snitch Slang v. snitched, snitch·ing, snitch·es v.tr. To steal (something, usually something of little value); pilfer. See Synonyms at steal. v.intr. .'' Five years ago, the woman testified in the murder trial of Miguel Gonzalez's twin brother, who is now serving a 29-years-to-life prison sentence. Another defendant believed she informed on a friend in another case, she told deputies. Defense attorneys said the victim has changed her story several times about her abductions. She herself was sentenced in August to six years in prison after pleading no contest to committing an armed robbery of a Palmdale sandwich shop in November 2000. Shannon and the Gonzalezes were convicted in August in Los Angeles Superior Court in their second trial after the first ended in a deadlocked jury and mistrial A courtroom trial that has been terminated prior to its normal conclusion. A mistrial has no legal effect and is considered an invalid or nugatory trial. It differs from a "new trial," which recognizes that a trial was completed but was set aside so that the issues could be . Shannon was convicted of rape, kidnapping, making criminal threats and other sexual assault charges. Miguel and Gabriel Gonzalez were each found guilty of making criminal threats and kidnapping. The jury acquitted Gabriel Gonzalez of assault with firearm. |
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