Criminal
Jul. 29, 2011
As habeas petitioners wait, judge delayed
When magistrate judges recommended habeas relief in three separate cases of prison inmates they believed deserved release or a new trial, U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson did nothing for years.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Omer Harland Gallion was serving a life sentence in prison for murder when he saw a rare ray of hope. A federal magistrate judge had concluded Gallion should have a new trial or be released.
Gallion had always maintained he was at a country music bar on the night in 1972 when his mother-in-law was dragged around her North Hollywood house and strangled.
The murder remained a gr...
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