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NATION IN BRIEF : ARIZONA : Man Not Guilty in Slaying of Reporter

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

A man once sentenced to death for the car-bombing murder of a reporter was found not guilty in a retrial in Phoenix, but he was sent back to jail on a charge of trying to kill a prosecution witness. James Robison was acquitted of murder and conspiracy charges in the June, 1976, slaying of Don Bolles, a reporter for the Arizona Republic. Robison, 71, was convicted of the crime in 1977. He was on Death Row for three years, but his conviction was overturned on appeal in 1980. Bolles, 47, underwent the amputation of both his legs and his right arm before he died in a hospital 11 days after the bombing.

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