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California Supreme Court

Mar. 21, 2015

State Supreme Court to rehear appeal in murder case based on new law

State lawmakers spoke last fall and the state Supreme Court listened Wednesday as the justices voted to rehear the murder appeal of a man convicted on forensic evidence, later recanted, linking him to a bite mark on the victim.


By John Roemer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


State lawmakers spoke last fall and the state Supreme Court listened Wednesday as the justices voted to rehear the murder appeal of a man convicted on forensic evidence, later recanted, linking him to a bite mark on the victim.


It was the high court's second rehearing grant in a murder case in two weeks, though Wednesday's decision appeared to have more to do with a change in the law than with ...

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