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Criminal

Aug. 6, 2002

Judge Will Let Jurors Consider Drunkenness

SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, accused of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, will be told that they can consider Westerfield's intoxication the night the second-grader vanished from her upstairs bedroom.

By Claude Walbert
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, accused of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, will be told that they can consider Westerfield's intoxication the night the second-grader vanished from her upstairs bedroom.
        Defense attorney Robert E. Boyce argued...

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