The Nation - News from Jan. 8, 1985
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A judge in Dayton, Ohio, imposed 20-year prison terms on Alton Coleman and his girlfriend for kidnaping a professor, the first sentence for the pair in connection with a six-state crime spree that authorities said left eight persons slain. U.S. District Judge Walter Rice ordered the sentences to begin immediately, and denied defense requests to keep Coleman, 28, and Debra Brown, 22, from being sent to Cincinnati, where they face potential death-penalty charges of aggravated murder in two separate killings.
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