Criminal
Jul. 15, 2014
SF criminal lawyer on a roll, stopping death penalty one case at a time
San Francisco attorney Michael Burt has become known as one of the premier capital defense attorneys in the nation.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In the state's first federal death penalty case, a Hawaiian jury last month did not agree to execute a former soldier, despite prosecutors' presentation of evidence that he had tortured, starved and beaten his five-year-old daughter for months before killing her. In December, a New Mexico jury hung on whether a man who escaped prison and killed and maimed an elderly couple should be sentenced to deat...
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