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Soda Springs Death Row Inmate Seeks New Sentence Hearing

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SODA SPRINGS, Idaho (AP) - Attorneys for a man sentenced to death for killing a bank teller with a sawed-off shotgun during a 1991 robbery say he should be given a new sentencing hearing due to mistakes made by his previous lawyers.

The current attorneys for Timothy Dunlap, 40, at a hearing Friday made nearly 80 claims on why their client should be given another sentencing hearing, and that mitigating circumstances might lead to a sentence of life in prison rather than the death penalty.

Sixth District Judge Don L. Harding says he will make a decision within 30 days.

Dunlap pleaded guilty to the murder of 23-year-old Tonya Crane during a Soda Springs bank robbery, and in 1992 was sentenced to die by lethal injection.

He won a new sentencing hearing in 2005, and in 2006 a jury again sentenced him to die.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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