98:. His mother, "a social worker trained to be sensitive to suicidal indicators" hung-up the phone before the call was answered. Afterwards police came to the house. The responding officers searched Aitken's car and discovered three locked and unloaded handguns in the trunk. Aitken was subsequently arrested for possession of these weapons and was sentenced to seven years in prison by Judge James Morley. Judge Morley's decision not to provide information to the jury regarding exceptions to New Jersey's relatively strict firearm possession laws became a source of controversy.
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