The unidentified driver then got out of his car and used a blunt object to attack people, San Jose police Officer Albert Morales said.

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The court also heard from Home Office pathologist Derek James who told the court that Ms Dries-Jenkins had been hit with a blunt object to the head about ten times and possibly more.

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Prosecutors did not pursue the death penalty, so Gerhartsreiter could face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the murder conviction, plus two additional years because the jury also found that he personally used a blunt object and a sharp instrument as weapons.

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There are moments brief, valuable moments of exploration, discovery and fun, spaced between hours upon hours of smashing through the same zombie horde with the same blunt object to recover some new tan-colored Macguffin and return it to some new desperate survivor in exchange for the same old stick with a new skin.

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Bradley's group, Palm Solutions, accounts for most of Palm's revenue but manages only 29 cents in gross profit on the sales dollar. (The software group, PalmSource, gets 91 cents on the dollar.) PalmSource gleefully licenses its fabled operating system to the likes of Sony and Kyocera, which then use it as a blunt object to beat Bradley's hardware group into the ground.

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He said the numerous lacerations to her face had been caused by "blunt force trauma" inflicted using an "irregular shaped object".

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