Tuesday, May 11, 1999
Kehoe sentence is life term
The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A jury on Monday decided on a life sentence for Chevie Kehoe, who was convicted of murder as part of a scheme to set up a whites-only nation.
The federal jury could have sentenced Mr. Kehoe to die for the slayings of an Arkansas family.
The jury of nine blacks and three whites deliberated about 61/2 hours over two days.
John Hall, an attorney for Mr. Kehoe, said the defense would appeal the conviction and sentence.
Chevie Kehoe and his brother, Cheyne, became known nationwide after a Feb. 15, 1997, shootout with police near Wilmington, Ohio. The gunplay was caught on videotape and broadcast around the nation.
Four months later, Cheyne Kehoe turned himself in and told police where to find his brother in Utah.
Prosecutors had asked that Chevie Kehoe be put to death for the 1996 killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell.
Last week, the jury convicted Mr. Kehoe, of Colville, Wash., and Danny Lee of Yukon, Okla., of racketeering, conspiracy and three counts of murder. The prosecution said the two 26-year-olds were part of an enterprise, headed by Mr. Kehoe, that committed crimes to further the cause of setting up an Aryan People's Republic in the Pacific Northwest.
Jurors are to return today to hear testimony on a sentence for Mr. Lee.
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