Criminal
Nov. 23, 2010
Gang Trial Results in Life Sentence
A street gang member was sentenced to life in prison Friday after a months-long delay in which his attorneys tried to win him a new trial based on the recent scandal at the San Francisco Police Department crime laboratory.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Dennis Cyrus Jr., a street gang member whose death penalty trial was the first in the Northern District in decades, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of release after a months-long delay in which his attorneys tried to win him a new trial based on the recent scandal at the San Francisco Police Department crime laboratory.
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