Man shot during 2008 gambling raid to serve 20 years
By Veronica Gonzalez Veronica.Gonzalez@StarNewsOnline.com William Joseph Inman, whose sentence will be followed by five years of probation, was found guilty in April of illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon while participating in what his lawyer said was a peaceful, albeit illegal gambling business.
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Casino gambling facts:
- Casino gambling, including Indian gaming, is legal in 27 states and most of the casinos have been built in the last 5 years according to "America's Gambling Fever", U. S. News and World Report, 15 Jan 1996
- Although the Greeks had a profound understanding of mathematics they had no concept of probability, and assumed that the outcome of games of chance was due to the will of the gods.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- 1905: The town of Las Vegas is founded when the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company holds a land auction at the site on May 15.
1912: The Majestic - Las Vegas's very first theater - opens, featuring the best vaudeville acts and motion pictures of the time.
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