U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Jun. 4, 2015
9th Circuit overturns state Supreme Court and vacates a man's death sentence
In another slap at the state Supreme Court's history of habitually affirming capital judgments, a federal appellate panel on Tuesday reversed a California man's death sentence after finding a serious flaw in his 1982 murder trial.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In another slap at the state Supreme Court's history of habitually affirming capital
judgments, a federal appellate panel on Tuesday reversed a California man's death
sentence after finding a serious flaw in his 1982 murder trial.
Since the late 1980s, the state Supreme Court reversed fewer than 10 percent of death
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