
By Saul Sugarman
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Malcolm Shepard Jr. shot and killed a 19-year-old man for a small amount of marijuana on a Sacramento bridge in 2005. A jury convicted him of murder two years later.
Only two people sat in the audience for most of the trial: Shepard's mother and the mother of the young man he killed, said Allen H. Sumner, the Sacramento County Superior Court judge who handled the case. The two mothers ... (continued)