Man Who Shot Pope Gets a Legal Break
From Times Wire Reports
Mehmet Ali Agca, who served nearly 20 years in an Italian prison for shooting Pope John Paul II in 1981, had his sentence reduced in the 1979 murder of a Turkish journalist and could be released at the end of next year, his lawyer said.
Agca, 46, had been sentenced to 10 years for killing Abdi Ipekci and to seven years and four months for two robberies in Turkey. An Istanbul court ruled that Agca should serve only the longest sentence, and it has been reduced under new Turkish laws, the lawyer said.
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