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| Ill ex-con returned to jail |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/05/2001 |
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A 70-year-old Oregon man fighting California's efforts to put him back in prison for a 1963 slaying was back in jail recently after he was hospitalized for anemia. Robert Lee Burns of Springfield had been rushed to Sacred Heart Medical Center, where he received a blood transfusion and was tested for bone cancer. Burns was sentenced to life in 1964 after one of his partners in a Sacramento bank robbery killed a California highway patrolman during their getaway. But after being transferred to Oregon to serve out the remainder of a leftover robbery sentence, Oregon authorities deemed Burns fully rehabilitated. Then-Gov. Robert Straub refused in 1974 to send him back to California to finish his murder sentence. Since then, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling eliminated the right of governors to grant sanctuary, and Burns was arrested Jan. 4 after his name popped up on a computer wanted list to complete his life sentence in California. In petitioning California to allow Burns to remain free in Oregon, a defense lawyer cited doctors who said Burns suffers from a heart condition and prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. His family said he has also previously suffered a stroke. No hearing has been set on returning Burns to California. |
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