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Dec. 29, 2017

Morgan Lewis attorneys win commutation of woman’s murder sentence

After almost 11 years of work by a team of attorneys with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Gov. Jerry Brown has commuted the sentence of a woman they say was wrongly convicted in the 1995 murder of her 3-year-old son.

After almost 11 years of work by a team of attorneys with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Gov. Jerry Brown has commuted the sentence of a woman they say was wrongly convicted in the 1995 murder of her 3-year-old son.

The order was one of 132 pardons and 19 commutations announced by Brown just before Christmas.

Kelly Savage was convicted in Tulare County in 1998 and sentenced to life without par...

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