Sentence examples for taking part in a robbery from inspiring English sources

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A Brooklyn teenager was convicted of murder yesterday in State Supreme Court for taking part in a robbery that caused the death of a 15-year-old in East Flatbush last summer.

Yesterday, the detectives found the men, who they suspected of taking part in a robbery spree that was ambitious in scope, but prosaic in its targets and farcical in its conclusion.

A federal indictment unsealed yesterday in Manhattan federal court charges 20 people from the Bronx with taking part in a robbery ring that focused on drug dealers and commercial establishments in the Bronx, Queens and Mount Vernon, actions that led to one homicide.

Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit, a critic of capital punishment, took on the constitutionality of the 1996 death penalty act itself in a dissent in the case of Andrew C. Crater, who had been convicted of taking part in a robbery and shooting spree that killed a Sacramento musician, James Pantages.

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Back in the 1980s, he had been accused by a supergrass, Mickey "Skinny" Gervaise, of having taken part in a robbery.

He testified that as the two men approached Ms. Stahl's top-floor apartment, Mr. Smith, 31, who was accompanying him, pulled a gun, shoved it in his back and demanded that he take part in a robbery.

That gang member told prosecutors that he approached him because he believed he was in debt and needed money, and that the firefighter agreed to take part in a robbery.

She is quoted in the book as she bids a final farewell to Sparks, explaining her unwillingness to take part in a robbery with two young criminals which would involve throwing ammonia in someone's face: "I've had this Bandit Queen lark, crime is for kids – like those two greasy-haired spiv wonders – not for grown-ups".

A14 NEW YORK/REGION B1-5 No Appeal of Parole Of Former Radical The transcript of the parole hearing of Kathy Boudin, the former militant who took part in a robbery 20 years ago that left 3 people dead, was released as state officials determined that there was no legal ground for a hearing to reconsider the decision to grant her parole.

PAGE B1 Twist in Bias Attack Case A companion of the black youth who was severely beaten last month in what the police called a hate-crime attack by whites in Howard Beach, Queens, has been arrested on charges of taking part in a gunpoint robbery aboard a subway train in Brooklyn.

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