Criminal
Dec. 11, 2012
At 472 pages, appeal in murder case is anything but brief
The appeal for the man convicted of killing car racing legend Mickey Thompson makes the average brief look like high school-length essay. At 472 pages and 99,371 words, it's closer to a Dostoyevsky novel than a typical legal filing.
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By Henry Meier
Daily Journal Staff Writer
It's been nearly 25 years since the murder of car racing legend Mickey Thompson and his wife, Trudy, in the driveway of their San Gabriel Valley foothills home and almost six years since a former business partner and race promoter was convicted of hiring a pair of assailants to commit the crime.
But the case is far from a final resolution.
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