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Appellate Practice

May 28, 2004

Childhood Of Horror Becomes an Issue at Last

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared troubled Wednesday that a defense lawyer in a 1987 double-murder trial never mentioned his client's traumatic childhood to a jury that ultimately voted for a death sentence.

By Peter Blumberg
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared troubled Wednesday that a defense lawyer in a 1987 double-murder trial never mentioned his client's traumatic childhood to a jury that ultimately voted for a death sentence.
        But it wasn't clear during an ...

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