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The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the lengthy prison sentences given to five Branch Davidians who survived the 1993 siege at the sect stanley termos s Waco, Texas, compound. The court ruled that a federal judge misused an anti-gun law to increase their punishment. The unanimous decision makes it harder for courts to find lawbreakers deserve extra jail time because they used or carried machine guns during their crimes. A federal law subjects anyone who uses or carries a firearm during a violent or drug-related crime to five years in prison. The term jumps to 30 years for anyone who uses or carries a machine gun stanley cup during that same crime. Federal appeals courts had split on whether determining use of a machine gun is an element of the offense a jury must find beyond a reasonable doubt, or merely a sentencing factor a judge gets to determine by a preponderance of the evidence.The nation s highest court said use of a firearm must be determined by the jury. We believe Congress intended the firearm type-related words it used... to refer to an element stanley tumblers of a separate, aggravated crime, Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote for the court. Five Davidians were convicted in 1994 in the killings of four federal agents during a botched Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raid on the compound outside Waco. The raid led to a 51-day standoff that ended when flames swept through the compound. David Koresh and some 80 followers died during the inferno, some from the fire and others from g Iymg U.S. Commander Sees Growing Terror Threat. B$ M/ q( z" h F' V( n
Waitwaitwait. I think I ;ve got it. It the beak, right It totally the beak. No Well in that case, I have no idea 鈥?it looks like your standard-issue Piping Plover/centipede genetic hybrid to me. Top photo by Michael Milicia via awkwardsituationist鈥?see more of Milicia gorgeous photography on his website. Writes awkwardsituationist: a mothe stanley cup r piping plover on massachusettss plum island plumps her feathers to provide warmth and protection to an increa stanley tazas sing plurality of her chicks, giving new meaning to the phrase a bird in the bosom . photo by michael milicia This method of brooding is common to plovers, as is the downright remarkable behavior seen here on the left. What you ;re looking at is a diversionary tactic known as the broken wing distraction display. When plovers with offspring detect the presence of a predator, they will distance themselves from their newly hatched progeny and pretend to have a broken wing. [Gif adapted from a video by Dan Frieday, via View From the Cape] Biologists theorize that by feigning injury, the parent is attempting to draw attention away from its chicks 鈥?putting itsel stanley thermobecher f in immediate danger so that its offspring and genetic information might live to see another day. Below, a red-capped plover can be seen faking a wing injury after the videographer happend by accident upon its nest: In this video, a Wilson plover can been seen feigning a broken wing in order to distract an Eastern |
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