GANG MEMBER GETS LIFE TERMS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A member of the Asian Boyz street gang was sentenced Monday Monday: see week. to three consecutive life terms for his part in a five-month killing spree that left seven people dead. Kimorn Nuth, 19, one of seven defendants convicted, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Darlene Schempp in the same Van Nuys courtroom where four other gang members were convicted on charges arising from the 1995 killings. The defendants are natives of Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Those defendants are now awaiting jury decisions in the penalty phase of trial to decide if they should be sentenced to death or life in prison without 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. . Nuth, who was convicted of five murders, two attempted murders 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 one count of conspiracy, avoided a death penalty because he was a juvenile when the five murders and two attempted murders occurred. Seven murders and 18 attempted murders resulted from the bitter gang turf turf: see lawn. turf In horticulture, the surface layer of soil with its matted, dense vegetation, usually grasses grown for ornamental or recreational use. war in which rival Latino gang members and bystanders were among those killed, said Deputy District Attorney Laura Baird. |
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