Guilty in Officer’s Death, Man, 71, Dies at Home
From Times Wire Reports
MARIPOSA —
Robert Lee Burns, who fought more than a year to avoid serving out a life sentence in California in the 1963 murder of a highway patrolman, died at his home Tuesday.
Burns, 71, who had suffered from prostate cancer and heart disease, went home to Springfield on Saturday after doctors decided they could not prolong his life.
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