Criminal
Apr. 1, 2016
Federal judge vacates death sentence conviction due to prosecutorial misconduct
Because prosecutors had allegedly tried to elicit confessions and hindered the defense's ability to have a second eyewitness present at a 1982 murder trial, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter granted habeas relief claims Tuesday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Following arguments that the Los Angeles County district attorney's office jailhouse informant scandal and former City Attorney Carmen A. Trutanich's prosecutorial misconduct tainted a gang murder trial, a federal judge vacated not only a death sentence but a conviction in the 34-year-old case.
Because prosecutors had allegedly tried to elicit confessions and hindered the defense's ability ...
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