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Appellate Practice

May 31, 2000

Appellate Court Reinstates Murder Conviction

SACRAMENTO - A state appellate court has again reinstated two jury-imposed second-degree murder convictions in a 1996 Placer County car wreck and obliged the judge who kept reducing the counts to vehicular manslaughter by disqualifying him from the case.

By Tom Nadeau
Special to the Daily Journal
        SACRAMENTO - A state appellate court has again reinstated two jury-imposed second-degree murder convictions in a 1996 Placer County car wreck and obliged the judge who kept reducing the counts to vehicular manslaughter by disqualifying him from the case.
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