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Health Care & Hospital Law

Aug. 21, 2004

Man Who Used Sleepwalking Defense Gets 26 Years for Murder

LOS ANGELES - Stephen Otto Reitz, the Coronado man who unsuccessfully argued he was sleepwalking when he beat and stabbed his girlfriend to death, was sentenced Thursday to 26 years to life in prison.

By Leslie Simmons
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        LOS ANGELES - Stephen Otto Reitz, the Coronado man ...

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