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Law Practice

Aug. 2, 2005

Jury Will Decide Actual Innocence

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that a convicted criminal defendant granted a new trial and later acquitted has the right to have his or her actual innocence determined by a jury, not simply the judge, in any subsequent legal malpractice case.

By Blair Clarkson
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that a convicted criminal defendant granted a new trial a...

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