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Lawyer Kahn dies after fall
Kenneth Kahn, a criminal defense attorney with a side career as a comedian, known for his work with high-profile clients such as Larry Flynt, has died. He was 66. The recently retired Santa Monica resident died last Wednesday in a hospital in Cuzco, Peru, after falling while climbing alone on the mountain above the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Kahn’s public relations consultant, Bob Mazza, told the Los Angeles Times. In his legal role, Kahn may best be known for defending convicted spy Andrew Daulton Lee, portrayed by Sean Penn in the 1985 movie The Falcon and the Snowman. He also was Ike Turner’s defense attorney, representing the musician on a probation violation. And he defended when the Hustler magazine publisher was charged with desecrating the US for wearing a flag as a diaper in a courtroom.
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Man jailed for bone theft
A commercial fossil hunter, whose discovery of the world’s best-preserved dinosaur brought scientific acclaim, will serve 60 days in jail for stealing raptor bones from private land. Nathan Murphy, 51, a self-taught paleontologist, was convicted in March of felony theft for taking the raptor fossil from a ranch in northern Montana. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 9 in a separate federal case involving more fossils taken from Bureau of Land Management land. In 2000, Murphy discovered a mummified, 77-million-year-old duckbilled hadrosaur known as Leonardo, which is considered the best preserved dinosaur in the world.
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Gunman kills soldier
Two soldiers were shot on Monday, one fatally, outside a military recruiting center in Arkansas by a gunman who police said was opposed to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Police said the suspect, Abdulhakim Muhammad, drove up to an Army-Navy recruiting station and opened fire with an assault rifle, firing more than a dozen rounds into the building. Soldier William Long, 24, died in hospital, while Quentin Ezaegwula, 18, sustained injuries that were not considered life-threatening. Authorities said Muhammad, described only as a “black male,” has been charged with one count of capital murder and 15 counts of committing a terroristic act, and for firing a weapon into an occupiable structure.
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