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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
September 9, 2006
Former Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy Zellnar Franklin Hicks will serve 17 1/2 years in prison for shooting his elderly wife and killing his stepdaughter at the Hicks' east Bend ranch last year.
"The sentence I am going to give you will be, in essence, a life sentence, given your age,"....