Leo Ryan Larry Layton that "there's no way he's a defector. He's too close to Jones." Layton was the only former Peoples Temple member to be tried in the United States for criminal acts relating to the murders at Jonestown. He was convicted on four different murder-related counts. On March 3, 1987, Layton was sentenced to concurrent sentences of life in prison for "aiding and abetting the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan", "conspiracy to murder an internationally protected person, Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission for the United States in the Republic of Guyana", as well as 15 years in prison on
Joseph Casey (congressman) Joseph Casey (congressman) Joseph Casey (December 17, 1814 – February 10, 1879) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Joseph Casey was born at Ringgold Manor, Maryland. He studied law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Bloomfield, Pennsylvania. He moved to New Berlin, Pennsylvania, and resumed the practice of law. Casey was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850. In 1856, he was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which position