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February 25, 2003 Jury Rules Out Death Penalty for Failed SpyBy CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS ASHINGTON, Feb. 24 — A federal worker who was convicted last week of trying to sell secrets to Iraq and China will not face the death penalty, a jury decided today. The former Air Force master sergeant, Brian P. Regan, who worked for the intelligence agency that operates American spy satellites, was found guilty last week of attempted espionage and collecting secret information. Federal prosecutors had sought the death penalty. They said their posture reflected a determination by Attorney General John Ashcroft and other top officials to...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A former Air Force intelligence analyst who has been found guilty of attempted spying for Iraq will not face the death penalty, a jury decided on Monday in a blow to the U.S. government. A 12-person federal jury, which last week found Brian Regan guilty of attempted espionage and of gathering national defense information, spared his life after five days of deliberation. The jury decided that Regan, 40, had not tried to provide certain specific military secrets to Iraq -- data deemed important enough to warrant a possible death sentence. Regan's lawyers praised jurors for making...

Feb 21, 5:19 AM EST Jury to Decide Penalty in Regan Spy Case By JONATHAN D. SALANT Associated Press Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A federal jury convicted Brian Patrick Regan of attempted espionage, but could not decide whether the retired Air Force master sergeant should face the death penalty. The U.S. District Court jury adjourned Thursday without resolving the final issue of Regan's espionage trial: whether he offered secrets so crucial to national security that they warrant a death sentence. Deliberations were scheduled to resume Monday. Regan was convicted Thursday of offering to sell U.S. intelligence information to Iraq...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Former Air Force Master Sgt. Brian Patrick Regan was convicted Thursday of offering to sell U.S. intelligence information to Iraq and China. He was acquitted of attempted spying for Libya. The U.S. District Court jury deliberated 24 hours over five days before returning the verdict.The jury resumed deliberations on whether Regan offered Iraq documents concerning nuclear weaponry, military satellites, war plans or other major U.S. weapons systems.If the jury finds that he offered those secrets, he could be subject to the death penalty. Jurors would hear a second round of testimony to consider such a sentence.Regan,...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Jurors began weighing spy suspect Brian Patrick Regan's guilt or innocence Monday after prosecutors argued that, for $13 million, he would have sold Iraq or Libya "whatever they would have paid for." Defense attorneys said the information he carried when arrested would not have helped Iraq, Libya or China and could readily have been found in public sources. The jury deliberated about an hour, then broke for the night. Members were to take today off and resume deliberations on Wednesday. Regan, of Bowie, Md., has denied that he tried to sell classified information. The retired Air Force...

<p>ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Government prosecutors, summing up their case against a retired Air Force man suspected of spying, maintained Monday that Brian Patrick Regan "betrayed his country" with a willingness to sell classified information to Iraq, Libya and China. The 40-year-old Regan would have harmed his country for $13 million, the government contended, as Regan's espionage trial wound down in this suburb of the nation's capital.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government lawyers told a federal judge Friday they intend to seek the death penalty if they win a criminal conviction against a retired Air Force master sergeant on charges he tried to spy for Iraq, Libya and China.</p>