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Criminal

Oct. 7, 2014

DA tosses charges in triple murder case

Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach dismissed triple murder charges Friday against two men in a case in which his office was set to argue the same day to keep Zellerbach from being called to testify at a hearing on a motion to dismiss the case.

By Vik Jolly
Daily Journal Staff Writer

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach dismissed triple murder charges Friday against two men. A judge granted the DA's motion to dismiss all charges at a hearing at Larson Justice Center in Indio, according to a DA news release. The judge ordered the defendants released. Robert Lars Pape, 26, and Cristin Conrad Smith, 25, were charged with three counts of murder in the 2006 killings of three people at their Pin...

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