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Criminal

Dec. 9, 2004

Court Examines Retardation on Death Row

SAN DIEGO - Over strenuous objections from a state prosecutor, the California Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to reopen the cases of death row inmates diagnosed by at least one defense expert as mentally retarded.


By Peter Blumberg
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN DIEGO - Over strenuous objections from a state prosecutor, the California Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to reopen the cases of death row inmates diagnosed by at least one defense expert as mentally retarded.
        The court is deciding what s...

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