Criminal,
California Supreme Court
May 4, 2021
Death sentence reversed for mom who killed 4 children
The court’s 146-page opinion by Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye concluded that Sandi Dawn Nieves deserves a new penalty determination because the late Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge L. Jeffrey Wiatt gave jurors the impression that he favored the prosecution when he routinely disparaged defense counsel and defense witnesses.
A woman convicted of murdering her four children when she set fire to their Santa Clarita home more than 20 years ago had her death sentence reversed Monday but her first-degree murder convictions upheld by a unanimous California Supreme Court that ruled a pattern of judicial misconduct tilted the jury in the prosecution's favor.
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