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 Reynolds (congressman) of the Peace 1815–1837, and was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1819. He served as judge of Cortland County 1821–1839, and as supervisor of the town of Cortlandville 1825–1835. Reynolds was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837). He was elected the first president of the village of Cortland, New York in 1864. He died in Cortland on September 24, 1864, and was interred in the Cortland Rural Cemetery. Joseph Reynolds (congressman) Joseph Reynolds (September 14, 1785 – September 24, 1864) was an American farmer from New York