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Criminal

Aug. 21, 2002

Unlike Cops, PD Listened to Client

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Deputy Public Defender Rafael Trujillo recently won a rare murder acquittal. Prosecutors accused his client, Miguel Quiones, 22, of bludgeoning a man to death with a steering wheel lock on a playground in the city's Crocker-Amazon neighborhood.

By Robert Selna
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Deputy Public Defender Rafael Trujillo recently won a rare murder acquittal. Prosecutors accused his client, Miguel Quiñones, 22, of bludgeoning a man to death with a steering wheel lock on a playground in the city's Crocker-Amazon neighborhood.
        Things looked bad f...

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