At first I thought it was an armed robbery, but as it turned out it was a robbery of another kind.
Sgt. Brian Burke, a police spokesman, said the case had been classified as a robbery, because a search of Mr. Martinez's clothing showed that the cash he had been carrying as part of his delivery job was missing.
The defendants, Anthony Fortunato, Ilya Shurov and John Fox, none older than 21, have been charged with murder under the hate crime laws on a somewhat novel theory: Prosecutors have said the suspects selected Mr. Sandy as a robbery target not necessarily out of animosity toward gay people, but because they figured that a gay man would offer little resistance.
For his role in selecting a gay man as a robbery target and chasing him to his death in traffic, a Brooklyn man was convicted yesterday of manslaughter and attempted robbery as hate crimes, but acquitted of murder.
Ike told Wyatt that Doc Holliday had told him he knew of Ike's meetings with Wyatt and about Ike providing information on Head, Leonard, and Crane, as well as their attempted robbery of the stage.
This has many interpretations and depends on the type of crime and the time period considered, but let us suppose that (v_k) represents the probability that a person suffers a particular type of crime, such as Robbery of a Person or Burglary, at least once, in a yearly period.
An H.S.B.C. lawyer later described Falciani's crime as "the largest robbery of a bank ever committed in the world".
For Norwood's killing, which prosecutors falsely portrayed as the brutal robbery of a stranger, Williams was sentenced to death.
On the key issue of electoral reform, Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, said: "There's no need for an inquiry to expose that an eighth of the seats for a third of the votes as daylight robbery of Lib Dem voters".
The Transport Salaried Staffs Association, which unearthed the figures using the Freedom of Information act, said it had now written to the Transport Select Committee calling on it to mount an inquiry into what it described as "daylight robbery" of taxpayers and passengers.
