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Criminal

Feb. 5, 2003

Killer Is Not Retarded, Jury Votes

RIVERSIDE - In the second case in the state to apply the U.S. Supreme Court decision banning the death penalty for mentally retarded murder defendants, a Riverside jury Monday decided that Steven Woodruff was not mentally impaired when he shot and killed a police detective last year.

By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        RIVERSIDE - In the second case in the state to apply the U.S. Supreme Court decision banning the death penalty for mentally retarded murder defendants, a Riverside jury Monday decided that Steven Woodruff was not mentally impaired when he shot and killed a police detect...

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