California Supreme Court
Apr. 29, 2015
At high court, a new era on death penalty
For the second time in two months the state high court has taken a sympathetic look at a capital appeal, reversing a death penalty over a judge's exclusion of mitigating evidence.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Again displaying a renewed appetite for taking a deep look at capital
appeals, the state Supreme Court on Monday reversed the death penalty of a Shasta
County man convicted in the torture murder of his brother's former fiance.
Last month the newly-constituted court granted rehearing in a capital appeal it had<...
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