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Criminal

Dec. 16, 1998

Supreme Court Rebukes Circuit In Death Case

WASHINGTON - Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that had overturned the death penalty for a man convicted of a 1979 rape and murder in San Francisco.

By David F. Pike
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WASHINGTON - Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that had overturned the death penalty for a man convicted of a 1979 rape and murder in San Francisco.
        The court's un...

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