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Criminal

Oct. 19, 2007

Death Penalty Up in the Air in S.F. Gang Case

SAN FRANCISCO - Two months ago, U.S. District Judge William Alsup gave prosecutors "one last chance" to persuade him to go ahead with the first federal death-penalty trial in San Francisco in decades.

By Amelia Hansen
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - Two months ago, U.S. District Judge William Alsup gave prosecutors "one last chance" to persuade him to go ahead with the first federal death-penalty trial in San Francisco in decades.
      But today in court lawyers for two defendants, each accused of three gang-related murders, are expected to argue that the government has bl...

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