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Criminal

Dec. 31, 2004

Value of Jurors' Life Experience Reiterated

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors should apply their own lives' lessons as they ponder a defendant's fate. So a judge's contrary instruction is grounds for reversing a Sacramento man's robbery conviction and 455 years-to-life sentence, a unanimous federal appellate panel held Wednesday.

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors should apply their own lives' lessons as they ponder a defendant's fate.
        So a judge's contrary instruction is grounds for reversing a Sacramento man's robbery conviction and 455 years-to-life sentence, a unanimous federal appellate ...

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