Criminal
Aug. 3, 2002
Subsequent Embrace of Religion Is Mitigation
SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided federal appeals court panel on Thursday overturned the 20-year-old death sentence of William Payton because a prosecutor erroneously told jurors they could not consider his religious conversion as a mitigating factor and the trial judge failed to correct the mistake.
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