British Arsonists - Kenny Richey, Barry Horne, Malcolm Hardee, Bruce Lee, Lilian Lenton, Mike Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie, Jonathan Martin (Paperback)

Chapters: Kenny Richey, Barry Horne, Malcolm Hardee, Bruce Lee, Lilian Lenton, Mike Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie, Jonathan Martin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kenneth "Kenny" T. Richey (born 3 August 1964 in Zeist, the Netherlands) is a UK-US dual citizen, born to a Scottish mother and American father, who was raised in Scotland but moved to Ohio, United States to join his father in late 1982. He was on death row for 21 years in Ohio after being convicted in 1987 of murdering two year-old Cynthia Collins by arson in 1986. In December 2007 he accepted a plea bargain which led to his release from death row and return to Scotland on 9 January 2008. Richey's plea bargain involved pleading 'no contest' to manslaughter, child endangering and breaking and entering. He was sentenced to time served, with the murder and arson charges dropped. A 'no contest' plea is not an admission of guilt. The accused by entering a no contest plea is not disputing, but not admitting, the charges. In real terms, this means that the accused is admitting that there is enough evidence to convict, without admitting to any guilt. Richey was due to be re-tried in March 2008 following a ruling in August 2007 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that overturned Richey's conviction following the prosecution's appeal of that ruling to the United States Supreme Court on a legal technicality concerning the common law theory of transferred intent. The ruling held that Richey's defense counsel at the original trial had been ineffective, and ordered that Richey be re-tried within 90 days or released. Two weeks later, the Ohio Attorney General's office announced that the prosecution would be seeking a retrial. Richey was taken off death row and return...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=145778