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| Judge denies aging fugitive's request for freedom |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/20/2001 |
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A 70-year-old Oregon man has been ordered to return to California to finish serving a life sentence for murder 27 years after Oregon's governor freed him from prison. Lane County Circuit Judge Bryan P. Hodges ruled Wednesday that Robert Lee Burns was a fugitive, despite arguments that California failed to follow up on extradition in 1982 and 1983 when Burns was arrested on a California fugitive warrant in Nevada and Alaska. Burns, suffering from heart disease and cancer, said he will appeal the ruling. A hearing to block extradition was tentatively set for Friday. Burns was sentenced to life in 1964 after one of his partners in a Sacramento, California, bank robbery killed a highway patrolman. After being transferred to Oregon to serve the remainder of his robbery sentence, he was deemed rehabilitated. Then-Gov. Robert Straub refused to send him back to California. Since then, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling eliminated the right of governors to grant sanctuary. Burns was arrested January 4. |
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