WHY DIDN'T THIS COLD-BLOODED MURDERER GET THE CHAIR?

"Family members watching from both sides of the courtroom remained still and silent Tuesday as a Montgomery County judge handed the former U.S. Marshal convicted in the shooting death of a Navy seaman from California a 15-year sentence. Arthur L. Lloyd, who sat beside his lawyers in a green prison jumpsuit, showed little emotion as Circuit Court Judge Ann Harrington sentenced him to 25 years, then suspended 10. ... When Lloyd was offered the chance to speak on his own behalf, he sought to explain his actions in the Rockville shopping center parking lot. He said law enforcement officers like him are skittish since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and that he was incensed by a barrage of profanities and racial epithets that Stowers subjected him to. He also said he feared that Stowers might be someone he helped put in jail as a marshal, who was now seeking revenge. 'I'm sorry if my reaction was an overreaction,' said Lloyd, who shot Stowers in the leg during their altercation before killing him with a bullet to his back as he drove away."

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NO CONVICTION FOR A DRUGGIE COP?

A former Victorian policeman who leaked confidential information from a police database to an accused drug dealer has escaped a conviction. Christopher Gerald Marks, 30, of Frankston South, appeared for sentencing today in Victoria's County Court after pleading guilty to a charge of misfeasance of public office and drug charges. The charges stemmed from an incident in June 2003 when Marks, following a request from a friend and accused drug dealer, ran a check on a man caught with 300 ecstasy tablets. During the subsequent police investigation Marks, formerly a senior constable attached to the Frankston Regional Response Unit, also confessed to using and possessing the drug ecstasy on one occasion. Judge John Smallwood told the court the maximum penalty he could apply included a jail term, but he imposed fines totalling $4350 and did not record a conviction"

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