Lawyers for Ingmar Guandique, the man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy are returning to court, claiming his conviction was "predicated on a lie." The hearing is scheduled Thursday for Guandique, an undocumented El Salvadoran immigrant who was convicted in 2010 for murdering Levy in 2001.
The Senate today moved forward with a critical piece of the Obama administration's gun safety proposals, CBS News reported. The Senate voted 68-31 to begin debate on a bill that would significantly expand background checks for gun sales. It surpassed the 60-vote needed with support of several Republicans.
On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King was killed by assassin in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in the state to help support a sanitation workers' strike. The legendary figure had been at the forefront of the civil rights movement, beginning with the Montgomery boycott in 1955, all the while leading a series of nonviolent protests against discrimination.
The governor signed into law Thursday sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines similar to the ones used by the gunman who killed 20 children and six educators in Newton. Connecticut joins states California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts in having the country's strongest gun control laws, Brian Malte, director of mobilization for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington.
