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(CNN) -- Michael Jackson, the show-stopping singer whose best-selling albums -- including "Off the Wall," "Thriller" and "Bad" -- and electrifying stage presence made him one of the most popular artists of all time, died Thursday, CNN has confirmed.

Michael Jackson, shown in 2008, was one of the biggest pop stars in history.

He was 50.

He collapsed at his residence in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles, California, about noon Pacific time, suffering cardiac arrest, according to brother Randy Jackson. He died at UCLA Medical Center.

Lt. Fred Corral of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said an autopsy would probably be done on the singer Friday, with results expected that afternoon.  Watch crowds gather at Jackson's hospital Â»

"Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color," the Rev. Al Sharpton said. "To say an 'icon' would only give these young people in Harlem a fraction of what he was. He was a historic figure that people will measure music and the industry by."

Jackson's blazing rise to stardom -- and later fall from grace -- is among the most startling of show business tales. The son of a steelworker, he rose to fame as the lead singer of the Jackson 5, a band he formed with his brothers in the late 1960s. By the late '70s, as a solo artist, he was topping the charts with cuts from "Off the Wall," including "Rock With You" and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough."  Watch Jackson perform at a 1988 concert Â»

In 1982, he released "Thriller," an album that eventually produced seven hit singles. An appearance the next year on a Motown Records 25th-anniversary special cemented his status as the biggest star in the country.  Timeline: The life of Michael Jackson Â»

For the rest of the 1980s, they came no bigger. "Thriller's" follow-up, 1987's "Bad," sold almost as many copies. A new Jackson album -- a new Jackson appearance -- was a pop culture event. iReport: Share your memories of Michael Jackson

The pop music landscape was changing, however, opening up for rap, hip-hop and what came to be called "alternative" -- and Jackson was seen as out of step.

His next release, 1991's "Dangerous," debuted at No. 1 but "only" produced one top-ranking single -- "Black or White" -- and that song earned criticism for its inexplicably violent ending, in which Jackson was seen smashing car windows and clutching his crotch.

And then "Dangerous" was knocked out of its No. 1 spot on the album charts by Nirvana's "Nevermind," an occurrence noted for its symbolism by rock critics.

After that, more attention was paid to Jackson's private life than his music career, which faltered. A 1995 two-CD greatest hits, "HIStory," sold relatively poorly, given the huge expense of Jackson's recording contract: about 7 million copies, according to Recording Industry of America certifications.

A 2001 album of new material, "Invincible," did even worse.

In 2005, he went to trial on child-molestation charges. He was acquitted.

In July 2008, after three years away from the spotlight, Jackson announced a series of concerts at London's O2 Arena as his "curtain call." Some of the shows, initially scheduled to begin in July, were eventually postponed until 2010. Watch the reaction to Jackson's passing

Rise to stardom

Michael Jackson was born August 29, 1958, to Joe Jackson, a Gary, Indiana, steelworker, and his wife, Katherine. By the time he was 6, he had joined his brothers in a musical group organized by his father, and by the time he was 10, the group -- the Jackson 5 -- had been signed to Motown. Watch Michael Jackson's life in video

He made his first television appearance at age 11.

Jackson, a natural performer, soon became the group's front man. Music critic Langdon Winner, reviewing the group's first album, "Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5," for Rolling Stone, praised Michael's versatile singing and added, "Who is this 'Diana Ross,' anyway?"

The group's first four singles -- "I Want You Back," "ABC," "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There" -- went to No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart, the first time any group had pulled off that feat. There was even a Jackson 5 cartoon series on ABC.  Watch reaction from Motown Studios Â»

In 1972, he hit No. 1 as a solo artist with the song "Ben."

The group's popularity waned as the '70s continued, and Michael eventually went solo full time. He played the Scarecrow in the 1978 movie version of "The Wiz," and released the album "Off the Wall" in 1979. Its success paved the way for "Thriller," which eventually became the best-selling album in history, with 50 million copies sold worldwide.

At that point, Michael Jackson became ubiquitous.

Seven of "Thriller's" nine cuts were released as singles; all made the Top Ten. The then-new cable channel MTV, criticized for its almost exclusively white playlist, finally started playing Jackson's videos. They aired incessantly, including a 14-minute minimovie of the title cut. ("Weird Al" Yankovic cemented his own stardom by lampooning Jackson's song "Beat It" with a letter-perfect parody video.)

On the Motown Records' 25th-anniversary special -- a May 1983 TV extravaganza with notable turns by the Temptations, the Four Tops and Smokey Robinson -- it was Michael Jackson who stopped the show.

Already he was the most popular musician in America, riding high with "Thriller." But something about his electrifying performance of "Billie Jean," complete with the patented backward dance moves, boosted his stardom to a new level.  Watch Jackson perform "Thiller" Â»

People copied his Jheri-curled hair and single-gloved, zippered-jacket look. Showbiz veterans such as Fred Astaire praised his chops. He posed for photos with Ronald and Nancy Reagan at the White House. Paul McCartney teamed with him on three duets, two of which -- "The Girl Is Mine" and "Say Say Say" -- became top five hits. Jackson became a Pepsi spokesman, and when his hair caught fire while making a commercial, it was worldwide news.

It all happened very fast -- within a couple years of the Motown special. But even at the time of the "Motown 25" moonwalk, fame was old hat to Michael Jackson. He hadn't even turned 25 himself, but he'd been a star for more than half his life. He was given the nickname the "King of Pop" -- a spin on Elvis Presley's status as "the King of Rock 'n' Roll" -- and few questioned the moniker.

Relentless attention

But, as the showbiz saying has it, when you're on top of the world, there's nowhere to go but down. The relentless attention given Jackson started focusing as much on his eccentricities -- some real, some rumored -- as his music.

As the Web site Allmusic.com notes, he was rumored to sleep in a hyperbaric chamber and to have purchased the bones of John Merrick, the "Elephant Man." (Neither was true.) He did have a pet chimpanzee, Bubbles; underwent a series of increasingly drastic plastic surgeries; established an estate, Neverland, filled with zoo animals and amusement park rides; and managed to purchase the Beatles catalog from under Paul McCartney's nose, which displeased the ex-Beatle immensely.

In 1990s and 2000s, Jackson found himself pasted across the media for his short-lived marriages, the first to Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie; his 2002 claim that then Sony Records head Tommy Mottola was racist; his behavior and statements during a 2003 interview with British journalist Martin Bashir done for a documentary called "Living With Michael Jackson;" his changing physical appearance; and, above all, the accusations that he sexually molested young boys at Neverland.  Watch report on legacy on Michael Jackson Â»

The first such accusation, in 1993, resulted in a settlement to the 13-year-old accuser (rumored to be as high as $20 million), though no criminal charges were filed, Allmusic.com notes.

He also fell deeply in debt and was forced to sell some of his assets. Neverland was one of many holdings that went on the block. However, an auction of material from Neverland, scheduled for April, was called off and all items returned to Jackson.

Interest in Jackson never faded, however, even if some of it was prurient. In 2008, when he announced 10 comeback shows in London, beginning in July 2009, the story made worldwide news. The number of concerts was later increased to 50.

Seventy-five thousand tickets sold in four hours when they went on sale in March.

However, when the shows were postponed until 2010, rumors swept the Internet that Jackson was not physically prepared and possibly suffering from skin cancer.  Watch discussion of his tough life, brilliant career Â»

At the time, the president and CEO of AEG Live, Randy Phillips, said, "He's as healthy as can be -- no health problems whatsoever."

Jackson held open auditions for dancers in April in Los Angeles.

He is survived by his three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II.

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(CNN) -- A Texas woman accused of killing her toddler daughter and dumping the body in Galveston Bay has been found guilty of murder by a jury in Galveston, Texas.

Kimberly Dawn Trenor received a life sentence without possibility of parole in the murder of her daughter.

Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 20, showed no emotion as the verdict was read late Monday. Trenor had pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence in the case, but pleaded not guilty to the capital murder charge.

She received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

The body of Trenor's daughter, Riley Ann Sawyers, was found in October 2007 in a large blue plastic container on an uninhabited island in Galveston Bay.

Two-year-old Riley Ann's case drew national attention after a fisherman found her body. Authorities didn't know her identity, and police dubbed her "Baby Grace."

After authorities distributed composite sketches of the girl nationwide, Sheryl Sawyers, the girl's paternal grandmother, contacted police from her Ohio home to say the drawing resembled her granddaughter. DNA testing confirmed the child's identity.

According to an affidavit, Trenor told police Riley had been beaten and thrown across a room and that her head was held under water before she died on July 24, 2007.

Another piece of evidence shown to the jury during the trial was a page of Trenor's journal where she talked of beating the child, according to CNN affiliate KTRK.

"I just kept hitting her with the belt again and again. I don't know how long, but I remember her trying to get away and me knocking her back down," the journal said.

Trenor's husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, 25, also faces capital murder and evidence tampering charges, but is being tried separately.

A court date has not been set in that case.

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(CNN) -- Neenah Pickett is on a mission to find love, and it's the kind that has a countdown and can be monitored by any curious voyeur.

No, she's not the newest bachelorette to feed America's reality TV addiction. The New Jersey media consultant is the brains and heart behind "52 weeks 2 find him!" a Web site dedicated to the search for her husband.

"This whole process has been me really realizing I need to find new ways to be proactive," said Pickett, 43, who might typically get roped into long hours at work or the embrace of a comfortable couch. "I'm past the stage of believing it'll just happen."

So she's putting it all out there on her site. She's blogging. She's asking friends and strangers to weigh in with advice. She's pushing herself to do things and act in ways she never has before.

And a little more than 14 weeks into the self-imposed challenge, she's pretty exhausted.

"I can't believe how hard it is," she said of the journey so far, which has brought her more dates in two months than she'd had in two years. "But that's why the deadline is so important."

Setting goals and working hard -- no doubt, it's the American way.

Singles scramble to avoid renewing online dating subscriptions. They sign up for "speed dating" events to feast on a smorgasbord of quick-and-easy first impressions. TV viewers beat up "The Bachelor" when he regrets selecting the mate he's chosen after a limited number of episodes. And how-to books that promise, within a set timeframe, discovery of the One, fly off bookshelves.

When it comes to matters of the heart, though, does finding love on a deadline make sense?

"It sounds good from a marketing standpoint, but life doesn't work like that," said Blaire Allison, "The Love Guru," who coaches people when it comes to matters of the heart.

She should know. About five years ago, when she was 27, Allison posted a site called "Marry Blaire," with the hope -- albeit somewhat in jest -- that she'd be engaged within six months. Like Pickett, she felt that setting aside time to focus on her personal life was necessary.

"It's OK to say, 'I want to be a partner in a law firm in three years' ... but we're taught to not be open about our desires about marriage, because we don't want to scare off the guy," she said. By being honest, "you end up attracting men who want the same thing as you."

A funny thing happened along the way, though. Allison found "my One," as she calls him, ended up living with the guy and felt essentially married. But she walked away when she realized that she hadn't taken time to know herself. She was young, caught up in the societal pressures and so worried about finding him that she'd never bothered to look within.

Through self-discovery, she fell "totally in love with myself," she said. "Now, I'm ready for a partner in my life again, but there's no rush; there's no urgency; there's no fear."

And nothing is more attractive than a woman who is happy with herself, said Sam van Rood, a "Love Doctor" based in London, England. He said that putting a deadline on the search for love sounds like "a risky approach" and that allowing time for self-evaluation is most important, no matter the gender.

To get where he is, personally and professionally, he had to examine and fix his own mindset when it came to love and romance.

"I used to see an ice queen, and I'd run and impale myself on her cold, bitter heart," said van Rood, 35, who's engaged to be married next year. "Now I have the loveliest, warmest woman I've ever met. In helping myself, I've ended up helping other people."

For 23 years, Janet Page has been offering her own brand of assistance by way of an evening course offered at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

It was traditionally called "I Will Be Married in One Year," but the psychotherapist has changed the course name in recent years to better represent her curriculum and those she wants to reach, including gays and lesbians who can't marry: "Find Your Dream Mate While Finding Yourself: The Twelve-Month Plan."

Too many people are caught up in the fantasy of how love works and happens, she said. They are prepared to work hard on the job or in school, but they haven't done their homework to achieve true and lasting love.

Women, for example, think that outward appearances will reel men in, but men don't give enough attention to how they look, she said. And simple things, like making a conscious effort to smile more often, can make a difference. Get advice from matchmakers on what to wear, where to go

"Women who don't smile are perceived as hostile. Women perceive men who don't smile as being unsafe," Page said.

"But of course, your best smilers in the world are sociopaths," she added.

Though "love doesn't have a time limit on it," Page said giving people time constraints can be important, especially if what they need to do is some of the hard, looking-within kind of work.

If people were told to spend five years on this process, they'd wait until year four to focus, she said. "You have to give people deadlines."

And it's the deadline of 52 weeks that works for Pickett, who had never allowed herself this time to focus on her heart and the search for love. This "grand effort," as she calls it, is simply her attempt to see whether she can add to what is already "a full life" and one that she loves.

If she doesn't find him by the end of the year, she's prepared to take a year off to re-evaluate where she is.

"At that point, I'll probably need a year off from dating," she said with a laugh.

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YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- Courts in Myanmar have sentenced a blogger, a poet and several dissidents to several years in jail for anti-regime activities, a court official told CNN Tuesday.

Young people at an Internet cafe in Myanmar.

The verdicts were announced Monday and Tuesday, the court official said.

Blogger Nay Phone Latt was sentenced to more than 20 years in jail for his illegal Internet activities, the court official said.

The blogger was a "major source of information for the outside world" when the military junta used force last year to suppress anti-government demonstrations, said The Irrawaddy, an online newspaper published by exiles from Myanmar, which is also known as Burma.

The government exercises strict controls over media outlets in the southeast Asian country. Dissidents often turn to the Internet to disseminate information.

In the second case, poet Saw Wai received a two-year jail sentence for a poem he wrote for Valentine's Day that contained a veiled jab at the junta's leading figure, Senior Gen. Than Shwe.

The first words of each line in the eight-line poem, "February the Fourteenth" spelled out the message: "Senior General Than Shwe is crazy with power."

On Tuesday, the government handed down prison sentences to about a dozen members of a pro-democracy group known as the '88 Generation Students.

Irrawaddy said the members were each sentenced to 65 years in jail, but CNN could not independently confirm the figure.

Members of the group took part in the anti-government demonstrations that ended with the death of as many as 100 people last year after security forces clashed with thousands of protesters. The dead included 40 Buddhist monks.

Witnesses said the violent crackdown in September 2007 came as hundreds of monks defied a military ban on public assembly.

Until then, demonstrations led by the monks -- who are highly respected in the predominantly Buddhist country -- had gone largely unchallenged by the military, which has ruled the country since the 1960s.

The protests were sparked by a huge fuel price increase imposed by the military government, and quickly escalated. The action was informally dubbed the "Saffron Revolution" because of the maroon robes with saffron sashes that the monks wore.

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Seattle, Washington (CNN) -- Nearly 10 years ago, Maurice Clemmons pledged to make a fresh start.

"I come from a very good Christian family and I was raised much better than my actions speak," Clemmons said in a clemency application brief to then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in 2000. "I'm still ashamed to this day for the shame my stupid involvement in these crimes brought upon my family's name."

Clemmons was 27. He'd spent the past 11 years in an Arkansas prison, convicted of offenses including robbery, burglary, theft and taking a gun to school. He was facing a 95-year sentence.

A decade later, Clemmons is the subject of an intense manhunt in Washington state, suspected in the deaths of four Lakewood, Washington, police officers who were shot to death Sunday as they met in a coffee shop before starting their shifts. Authorities have said Clemmons is believed to have entered the Forza Coffee Company and opened fire on the officers with no warning.

Police tracked Clemmons to an east Seattle home Sunday night, but after a standoff that stretched to nearly 12 hours, they entered the home and found that he was not there.

In 2000, Clemmons told Huckabee that the crimes occurred when he was 16, had just moved to Arkansas from Seattle and had fallen in with the wrong crowd.

"Where once stood a young 16-year-old misguided fool ... now stands a 27-year-old man, who has learned through the 'school of hard knocks' to appreciate and respect the rights of others," his petition to Huckabee said.

Huckabee commuted Clemmons' sentence in 2000, citing his young age at the time of sentencing, making him eligible for parole. It was granted in July 2000, after he told Arkansas parole officials that he "just wants the opportunity" and "is not the same person he was when he came in," the documents said.

"It was not something I was pleased with at the time," said Larry Jegley, who prosecuted Clemmons for aggravated robbery and other charges in Pulaski County, Arkansas, regarding the commutation. "I would be most distressed if this is the same guy."

In 1989, as he was being prosecuted, Clemmons demonstrated violent behavior; he hid a piece of metal in his sock at a pretrial hearing, and before the start of another hearing he grabbed a padlock off his holding cell and threw it at a court bailiff. He missed and instead struck his mother, who had come to bring him clothes.

In his 2000 brief to Huckabee, Clemmons said his mother had died while he had been in prison, providing him with further motivation to turn his life around.

"I have never done anything good for God, but I've prayed for him to grant me in his compassion the grace to make a start," he said. "Now, I'm humbly appealing to you for a brand new start."

But after receiving a second chance, Clemmons was apparently unable to stay on the right side of the law, according to documents and authorities in Arkansas and Washington.

Arkansas parole board documents show that he was back in prison by September 2001. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that he was arrested for aggravated robbery and theft and taken back to prison on a parole violation. The paper said he was not served with the new arrest warrants for the robbery and theft charges until he was paroled three years later in 2004. His attorney argued that the charges should be dismissed because too much time had passed, and prosecutors complied.

Huckabee went on to become a 2008 Republican presidential candidate and has not ruled out a second try for the White House in 2012. In a statement Sunday night, his office said Clemmons' commutation was based on the recommendation of the parole board that determined that he met the conditions for early release.

Read the clemency documents for Clemmons

"He was arrested later for parole violation and taken back to prison to serve his full term, but prosecutors dropped the charges that would have held him," the statement said.

"Should he be found responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington state."

During his candidacy, Huckabee faced criticism in the case of convicted rapist Wayne DuMond, who was paroled in 1999. He had been sentenced to life for raping a 17-year-old girl.

In his first term as governor, Huckabee expressed support for DuMond's release in a letter to him.

Less than a year after his release, DuMond was accused of raping and murdering Carol Shields of Kansas City, Missouri. DuMond was convicted in 2003 and died in prison in 2005. Shields' mother, Lois Davidson, said in 2007 that she planned to campaign against Huckabee.

Clemmons is believed to have moved to Washington in 2004. The Pierce County Sheriff's Department said in a statement that he was recently charged in the assault of a police officer and rape of a child. County court records posted online show that he spent several months in jail and was released on $150,000 bail Tuesday, days before the shootings.

For a while after moving to Washington, Clemmons ran a pressure-washing and landscaping business. The license for the business expired last month, according to the secretary of state, with whom businesses have to register.

In recent months, Clemmons has displayed increasingly erratic behavior, the Seattle Times reported. In May, he punched a sheriff's deputy in the face, the paper said. In another incident, he had relatives undress, telling them that families need to be "naked for at least five minutes on Sunday," the newspaper said, citing a sheriff's department incident report.

Clemmons also believed that he was Jesus and could fly, a deputy wrote, based on conversations with family members.

The night before the shootings, Clemmons had threatened to kill police officers, but authorities did not learn of the threats until after the shooting, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told "Good Morning America."

"There's not going to be a big motive other than he was upset about being incarcerated and was going to go gunning after cops in general," Troyer said.

CNN's Mary Snow contributed to this report.

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text: another

text: hearing

text: he

text: grabbed

text: a

text: padlock

text: off

text: his

text: holding

text: cell

text: and

text: threw

text: it

text: at

text: a

text: court

text: bailiff

text: He

text: missed

text: and

text: instead

text: struck

text: his

text: mother

text: who

text: had

text: come

text: to

text: bring

text: him

text: clothes

text: In

text: his

text: brief

text: to

text: Huckabee

text: Clemmons

text: said

text: his

text: mother

text: had

text: died

text: while

text: he

text: had

text: been

text: in

text: prison

text: providing

text: him

text: with

text: further

text: motivation

text: to

text: turn

text: his

text: life

text: around

text: I

text: have

text: never

text: done

text: anything

text: good

text: for

text: God

text: but

text: I

text: 've

text: prayed

text: for

text: him

text: to

text: grant

text: me

text: in

text: his

text: compassion

text: the

text: grace

text: to

text: make

text: a

text: start

text: he

text: said

text: Now

text: I

text: 'm

text: humbly

text: appealing

text: to

text: you

text: for

text: a

text: brand

text: new

text: start

text: But

text: after

text: receiving

text: a

text: second

text: chance

text: Clemmons

text: was

text: apparently

text: unable

text: to

text: stay

text: on

text: the

text: right

text: side

text: of

text: the

text: law

text: according

text: to

text: documents

text: and

text: authorities

text: in

text: Arkansas

text: and

text: Washington

text: Arkansas

text: parole

text: board

text: documents

text: show

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: back

text: in

text: prison

text: by

text: September

text: The

text: Arkansas

text: Democrat

text: Gazette

text: reported

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: arrested

text: for

text: aggravated

text: robbery

text: and

text: theft

text: and

text: taken

text: back

text: to

text: prison

text: on

text: a

text: parole

text: violation

text: The

text: paper

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: not

text: served

text: with

text: the

text: new

text: arrest

text: warrants

text: for

text: the

text: robbery

text: and

text: theft

text: charges

text: until

text: he

text: was

text: paroled

text: three

text: years

text: later

text: in

text: His

text: attorney

text: argued

text: that

text: the

text: charges

text: should

text: be

text: dismissed

text: because

text: too

text: much

text: time

text: had

text: passed

text: and

text: prosecutors

text: complied

text: Huckabee

text: went

text: on

text: to

text: become

text: a

text: Republican

text: presidential

text: candidate

text: and

text: has

text: not

text: ruled

text: out

text: a

text: second

text: try

text: for

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: in

text: In

text: a

text: statement

text: Sunday

text: night

text: his

text: office

text: said

text: Clemmons

text: commutation

text: was

text: based

text: on

text: the

text: recommendation

text: of

text: the

text: parole

text: board

text: that

text: determined

text: that

text: he

text: met

text: the

text: conditions

text: for

text: early

text: release

text: Read

text: the

text: clemency

text: documents

text: for

text: Clemmons

text: He

text: was

text: arrested

text: later

text: for

text: parole

text: violation

text: and

text: taken

text: back

text: to

text: prison

text: to

text: serve

text: his

text: full

text: term

text: but

text: prosecutors

text: dropped

text: the

text: charges

text: that

text: would

text: have

text: held

text: him

text: the

text: statement

text: said

text: Should

text: he

text: be

text: found

text: responsible

text: for

text: this

text: horrible

text: tragedy

text: it

text: will

text: be

text: the

text: result

text: of

text: a

text: series

text: of

text: failures

text: in

text: the

text: criminal

text: justice

text: system

text: in

text: both

text: Arkansas

text: and

text: Washington

text: state

text: During

text: his

text: candidacy

text: Huckabee

text: faced

text: criticism

text: in

text: the

text: case

text: of

text: convicted

text: rapist

text: Wayne

text: DuMond

text: who

text: was

text: paroled

text: in

text: He

text: had

text: been

text: sentenced

text: to

text: life

text: for

text: raping

text: a

text: old

text: girl

text: In

text: his

text: first

text: term

text: as

text: governor

text: Huckabee

text: expressed

text: support

text: for

text: DuMond

text: 's

text: release

text: in

text: a

text: letter

text: to

text: him

text: Less

text: than

text: a

text: year

text: after

text: his

text: release

text: DuMond

text: was

text: accused

text: of

text: raping

text: and

text: murdering

text: Carol

text: Shields

text: of

text: Kansas

text: City

text: Missouri

text: DuMond

text: was

text: convicted

text: in

text: and

text: died

text: in

text: prison

text: in

text: Shields

text: mother

text: Lois

text: Davidson

text: said

text: in

text: that

text: she

text: planned

text: to

text: campaign

text: against

text: Huckabee

text: Clemmons

text: is

text: believed

text: to

text: have

text: moved

text: to

text: Washington

text: in

text: The

text: Pierce

text: County

text: Sheriff

text: 's

text: Department

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: recently

text: charged

text: in

text: the

text: assault

text: of

text: a

text: police

text: officer

text: and

text: rape

text: of

text: a

text: child

text: County

text: court

text: records

text: posted

text: online

text: show

text: that

text: he

text: spent

text: several

text: months

text: in

text: jail

text: and

text: was

text: released

text: on

text: bail

text: Tuesday

text: days

text: before

text: the

text: shootings

text: For

text: a

text: while

text: after

text: moving

text: to

text: Washington

text: Clemmons

text: ran

text: a

text: pressure

text: washing

text: and

text: landscaping

text: business

text: The

text: license

text: for

text: the

text: business

text: expired

text: last

text: month

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: secretary

text: of

text: state

text: with

text: whom

text: businesses

text: have

text: to

text: register

text: In

text: recent

text: months

text: Clemmons

text: has

text: displayed

text: increasingly

text: erratic

text: behavior

text: the

text: Seattle

text: Times

text: reported

text: In

text: May

text: he

text: punched

text: a

text: sheriff

text: 's

text: deputy

text: in

text: the

text: face

text: the

text: paper

text: said

text: In

text: another

text: incident

text: he

text: had

text: relatives

text: undress

text: telling

text: them

text: that

text: families

text: need

text: to

text: be

text: naked

text: for

text: at

text: least

text: five

text: minutes

text: on

text: Sunday

text: the

text: newspaper

text: said

text: citing

text: a

text: sheriff

text: 's

text: department

text: incident

text: report

text: Clemmons

text: also

text: believed

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: Jesus

text: and

text: could

text: fly

text: a

text: deputy

text: wrote

text: based

text: on

text: conversations

text: with

text: family

text: members

text: The

text: night

text: before

text: the

text: shootings

text: Clemmons

text: had

text: threatened

text: to

text: kill

text: police

text: officers

text: but

text: authorities

text: did

text: not

text: learn

text: of

text: the

text: threats

text: until

text: after

text: the

text: shooting

text: Pierce

text: County

text: sheriff

text: 's

text: spokesman

text: Ed

text: Troyer

text: told

text: Good

text: Morning

text: America

text: There

text: 's

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: big

text: motive

text: other

text: than

text: he

text: was

text: upset

text: about

text: being

text: incarcerated

text: and

text: was

text: going

text: to

text: go

text: gunning

text: after

text: cops

text: in

text: general

text: Troyer

text: said

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Mary

text: Snow

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who is Maurice Clemmons?

answer: the subject of an intense manhunt in Washington state,

text: the subject of an intense manhunt in Washington state,

question: How many years did he spend in prison?

answer: 11