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Obituaries

Nov. 5, 2014

Former Santa Barbara district attorney, known for tenacity, dies at 73

Thomas W. Sneddon, the longtime Santa Barbara County district attorney best known for his tenacious style and 2005 prosecution of late pop star Michael Jackson, has died at the age of 73.


By Brian Cardile


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Thomas W. Sneddon, the longtime Santa Barbara County district attorney best known for his tenacious style and 2005 prosecution of late pop star Michael Jackson, has died at the age of 73.


Sneddon, who retired in 2006, succumbed to a battle with cancer Saturday in a Santa Barbara hospital. Former colleagues and others remembered the county's former top prosecutor for a stripe of dogged advocacy th...

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