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US father guilty of bridge deaths | |
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An Alabama jury has convicted a man of murdering four children whom he threw off a bridge in January 2008. | An Alabama jury has convicted a man of murdering four children whom he threw off a bridge in January 2008. |
Lam Luong was found guilty of tossing the children 80ft (24m) into the sea from the Gulf coast bridge. | |
Luong's lawyer had sought a reduced charge of manslaughter, saying his client was on drugs when he killed the children - three of whom were his own. | Luong's lawyer had sought a reduced charge of manslaughter, saying his client was on drugs when he killed the children - three of whom were his own. |
Luong, 38, told police he had had an argument with his wife. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. | Luong, 38, told police he had had an argument with his wife. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. |
The jury deliberated for just 40 minutes in Mobile before reaching their verdict. | |
The jury is expected to make a sentence recommendation of life in prison without parole or the death penalty. | |
The three younger children - Hannah, two, Lindsey, one, and four-month-old Danny - were Luong's with his common-law wife, Kieu Phan. | |
The eldest, three-year-old Ryan, was Ms Phan's child from an earlier relationship. | |
Luong had arrived in Alabama as a refugee from Vietnam in 1984 when he was a teenager, and had worked as a shrimper. |
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