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Criminal

Sep. 13, 2007

Making Witness Protection Safer

It's a district attorney's worst nightmare: A witness seeks protection to testify against a violent and vengeful gang only to be gunned down when he comes out of hiding.

By Peter Blumberg

     It's a district attorney's worst nightmare: A witness seeks protection to testify against a violent and vengeful gang only to be gunned down when he comes out of hiding.
      San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has learned a painful lesson from the assassination of 22-year-old Terrell Robbins, who apparently couldn't stay away from his old neighborhood after he was placed ...

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