Teenagers to admit to US bank raid
May 23, 2005
Two teenage Australian residents facing trial in the US over a bank robbery will plead guilty and ask to serve their jail sentences in a prison back home.
Lawyers for Luke Carroll and Anthony Prince say they hope a guilty plea will reduce the maximum 25 years in jail to five, it was reported yesterday.
The pair are then expected to be moved to Australia under a prisoner transfer agreement. Carroll and Prince, both 19, pleaded not guilty in April to robbing the WestStar Bank in the Colorado ski town of Vail of about $US130,000 ($170,000).
Prince, a New Zealand passport holder, and Carroll, an Australian, left their homes in the Byron Bay area in November last year for a snowboarding and working holiday in the US.
Prince's lawyer, Warren Williamson, said he would argue for reduced sentences based on his client's lack of prior bank-robbing offences, his age and quick confession and remorse.
Mr Williamson said he had spoken to the Australian Attorney-General's office and a transfer application would be made after sentencing.
The teenagers have been in custody since their arrest at Denver Airport on March 21, the day of the alleged robbery.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Teenagers-to-admit-to-US-bank-raid/2005/05/22/1116700595250.html
STUPID BLOODY IDIOTS
May 23, 2005
Two teenage Australian residents facing trial in the US over a bank robbery will plead guilty and ask to serve their jail sentences in a prison back home.
Lawyers for Luke Carroll and Anthony Prince say they hope a guilty plea will reduce the maximum 25 years in jail to five, it was reported yesterday.
The pair are then expected to be moved to Australia under a prisoner transfer agreement. Carroll and Prince, both 19, pleaded not guilty in April to robbing the WestStar Bank in the Colorado ski town of Vail of about $US130,000 ($170,000).
Prince, a New Zealand passport holder, and Carroll, an Australian, left their homes in the Byron Bay area in November last year for a snowboarding and working holiday in the US.
Prince's lawyer, Warren Williamson, said he would argue for reduced sentences based on his client's lack of prior bank-robbing offences, his age and quick confession and remorse.
Mr Williamson said he had spoken to the Australian Attorney-General's office and a transfer application would be made after sentencing.
The teenagers have been in custody since their arrest at Denver Airport on March 21, the day of the alleged robbery.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Teenagers-to-admit-to-US-bank-raid/2005/05/22/1116700595250.html
STUPID BLOODY IDIOTS
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