Obituaries
Feb. 3, 2015
Arthur L. Alarcón 1925-2015
Arthur L. Alarcón, a senior judge at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who became an outspoken capital punishment critic, has died of cancer at his Pacific Palisades home.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Arthur L. Alarcón, a senior judge at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who became an outspoken capital punishment critic, has died of cancer at his Pacific Palisades home.
He was 89 and among the cadre of President Jimmy Carter appointees to the circuit, which announced Friday that Alarcón had died last Wednesday evening. Surviving Carter-era judges who tilted the court leftwards in the 1970s incl...
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