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Appellate Practice

Jun. 20, 2006

Solo Advocate of Long-Odds Cases

SAN FRANCISCO - The couple was drunk, and the sex was rough. When it was over, more than a quarter-century ago, Deborah Ellen Cox lay nude and dead and Stevin Noel Faith faced life behind bars for strangling her.

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer


      SAN FRANCISCO - The couple was drunk, and the sex was rough. When it was over, more than a quarter-century ago, Deborah Ellen Cox lay nude and dead and Stevin Noel Faith faced life behind bars for strangling her.
      The jury believed the prosecutors' view of the case, and in 1981 convicted Faith of first-degree murder. State cour...

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