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Litigation

May 12, 2016

OC sheriff's deputy will likely plead the 5th

Lawyers will be back in court Thursday regarding new information in a double murder case

By Meghann Cuniff
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - An Orange County sheriff's deputy whose notes are among newly discovered information threatening to delay a death penalty sentencing likely will evoke the Fifth Amendment if called to testify, a deputy district attorney said Tuesday.

Matthew D. Murphy, lead prosecutor in a double murder conviction that's the center of the newest revelations in Orange County'...

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