Law Practice
Oct. 31, 2007
Lawyer Given Probation for Stalled Appeal
The State Bar has placed a Yolo County civil litigator on a year of probation for letting a death penalty appeal drag on for more than a decade.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The State Bar has placed a Yolo County civil litigator on one-year probation for letting a death penalty appeal drag on for more than a decade.
Thomas L. Riordan had no capital appellate experience when he agreed to take the case of double-murderer Richard Dean Turner in 1991.
Riordan said he took the ...
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