MURDER TRIAL IS ORDERED FOR PAIR QUARTZ HILL MAN KILLED IN OCTOBER.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. -- Two Palmdale men were ordered Tuesday to stand trial on charges of murder in the slaying of a reputed reputed adj. referring to what is accepted by general public belief, whether or not correct. drug dealer, whom deputies believe was shot in a robbery attempt on a Quartz quartz, one of the commonest of all rock-forming minerals and one of the most important constituents of the earth's crust. Chemically, it is silicon dioxide, SiO2. Hill street. Antoine Leblanc and Eric Haviland, both 19, are accused in the Oct. 27 killing of 20-year-old Ian Hennen of Quartz Hill, who was shot on the street but drove away and later died. Hennen attempted to drive himself to the hospital but crashed his vehicle, investigators said. Leblanc and Haviland were bound over for trial on charges of murder and kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. for robbery. They also face special-circumstance allegations -- committing the slaying during the commission of a kidnapping and robbery -- that make them eligible for the death penalty or life in prison without the 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. . No decision has been made yet on whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty. Deputy District Attorney Sun Chung declined to comment specifically on the case. Leblanc's attorney, Duane Folke, said the wrong person is in custody. ``My client is innocent. He didn't do this heinous hei·nous adj. Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable: a heinous crime. [Middle English, from Old French haineus, from haine, hatred, from crime,'' Folke said. ``They have no fingerprint fingerprint, an impression of the underside of the end of a finger or thumb, used for identification because the arrangement of ridges in any fingerprint is thought to be unique and permanent with each person (no two persons having the same prints have ever been evidence. They have no evidence that my client committed this crime but for the testimony of the police officers involved in the case.'' Both defendants remained in custody without bail. A third man was arrested and charged in the case, but charges were dismissed last November and he was let go. A search for Leblanc in a west Palmdale neighborhood last December ended in a back yard where a sheriff's deputy shot and wounded him. Deputies said Leblanc had been hiding in a trash can In the Macintosh, a simulated garbage can used for deleting files and folders. The trash can keeps the files intact in case the user wants to restore them, but can be "emptied" from time to time to save disk space. but jumped out as they prepared to send a police dog after him. He climbed a fence into another backyard where other deputies were waiting. Leblanc appeared to be reaching for his waistband when one deputy fired two shots, hitting the suspect once in the side, deputies said. ``My client didn't have a gun and had his hands up in the air when he was shot,'' Folke said. Haviland was arrested in January. Investigators had said there was a confrontation that led to the shooting but declined to comment on what it was about. The shooting occurred in the 6300 block of West Avenue L-4. karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 |
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