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Judges and Judiciary

Apr. 6, 2007

Man Who Torched Son Gets Strike

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Wednesday swept aside defense pleas to ignore an appellate court ruling and sentenced a man earlier convicted of setting his son on fire to 25 years to life for a subsequent third-strike gun conviction.

By Dennis J. Opatrny
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Wednesday swept aside defense pleas to ignore an appellate court ruling and sentenced a man earlier convicted of setting his son on fire to 25 years to life for a subsequent third-strike gun conviction.
      Judge Cynthia Ming Mei Lee had ruled in April 2005 that Charley Charles' earlier arson and attempted-...

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