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(7/8, 1K) also reports on its website. US Seeks Death Penalty For Man Convicted Of Murdering Chinese Scholar. Reuters (7/8, Chiarito) reports from Peoria, Illinois that federal prosecutors "argued on Monday that an Illinois man who raped and murdered a Chinese graduate student two years ago should be
y crime,' James Nelson, a prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice's capital case division, told the jury. `It was cold, cruel and calculated.' Christensen's attorneys "have asked the jury to spare his life, saying he had long struggled with substance abuse and mental illness and had a family history of
Deputy and fatal shoot out with law enforcement by anti- government man) Consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office, Peoria, IL, in U.S. v. Brendt Christensen (kidnapping and murder of Chinese graduate student) Consultant to the Federal Public Defender's Office, Distri
th law enforcement by anti- government man) Consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office, Peoria, IL, in U.S. v. Brendt Christensen (kidnapping and murder of Chinese graduate student) Consultant to the Federal Public Defender's Office, District of Alaska, in U.S. v. James Wells
ers was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for the kidnapping and decapitation of a Chinese graduate student two years ago." A federal jury in Peoria, Illinois "found Brendt Christensen, 29, guilty last month of all charges in the murder of Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old student at the University o
e same jury of five women and seven men told the judge that they were unable to unanimously decide between life in prison or the death penalty," and Christensen "was then sentenced to life imprisonment by default." The AP (7/18, Tarm) reports, "Jurors deliberated about eight hours over two days before annou
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