Appellate Practice
Aug. 15, 2006
8-Year-Old's Killer Is Let Off Death Row
A federal appeals court cited ineffective assistance of counsel Friday in reversing the death sentence of a Bay Area man convicted of kidnapping and murdering an 8-year-old girl in 1978.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A federal appeals court cited ineffective assistance of counsel Friday in reversing the death sentence of a Bay Area man convicted of kidnapping and murdering an 8-year-old girl in 1978.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Alameda County public defenders appointed to represent Richard Adams Hovey botched his case b...
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