GUILTY PLEA PREVENTS 3RD TRIAL IN SLAYINGS.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer After one trial ended in a deadlocked dead·lock n. 1. A standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions. 2. Sports A tied score. 3. jury and his conviction in a second trial was overturned on appeal, an Acton man pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. for killing a father and son in what prosecutors allege To state, recite, assert, or charge the existence of particular facts in a Pleading or an indictment; to make an allegation. allege v. was retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and for the death of his dog. Just before the beginning of his third trial, William Strong William Strong was the name of the following men:
``He avoids having a life (sentence) and he knows exactly when he would be eligible for parole,'' said prosecutor Kelly Cromer. ``This disposition means we won't have another trial. It's never a certainty as to what the jury would do.'' Strong, 41, was charged with killing neighbor Kenneth Laux Sr., 59, of Acton, and Kenneth Laux Jr., 34, of Pearblossom, in February 1994 outside the trailer in which Strong lived as a caretaker. Sentencing is scheduled for May 5 in a Van Nuys courtroom, where a restitution hearing also will be held. Strong is disputing having to pay $6,000 in burial costs for the victims, saying his former landlord already has paid the expenses in a civil lawsuit settlement. In representing himself Monday, Strong appeared self-assured, but complained several times that he did not understand the proceeding and got the judge to explain things to him, Cromer said. In Strong's first trial, a Lancaster jury found him not guilty of first-degree murder but deadlocked on whether he committed second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. Strong was convicted in November 1995 of second-degree murder of the elder Laux and voluntary manslaughter of the son. But two years later the state Court of Appeal sent the case back to Van Nuys Superior Court, where Judge Michael Farrell For the Australian cricketer, see . For the American screen actor, see . Michael Farrell (born 1944) is an Irish civil rights activist and former leader of People's Democracy. vacated Strong's conviction, finding that the defendant had been misinformed about the potential maximum sentence when he rejected a plea bargain and went on trial. Prosecutors said Strong frequently fired guns into a canyon behind his trailer, next to a two-story home on Hubbard Road. They said he was extremely angry at the death of his dog a month before the Laux slayings and frequently questioned neighbors about whether the father and son had shot the pet. Prosecutors said the Lauxes were upset that Strong fired guns near their home. Strong said the father and son drove up toward his house after he fired a pistol out his bedroom window. Strong claimed he shot the Lauxes in self-defense (Law) in protection of self, - it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of the assailiant. - Wharton. See also: Self-defense . |
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