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Government

Oct. 29, 2013

Riverside is outlier in capital cases

County disproportionately pursues death penalty despite heavy expense


By Katie Lucia


Daily Journal Staff Writer


RIVERSIDE - Michael Babar was a wreck when he learned his 6-year-old daughter was, in fact, not his own. He was aware that his wife had had a string of online affairs, but he was overwhelmed with pain to learn their youngest child was a product of her serial cheating.


That's what his attorney said when Babar faced trial for strangling his wife to death and killing his young daughter by repeatedly ...

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