Criminal
Apr. 4, 2001
Judge Orders Retrial Of Death-Row Inmate
LOS ANGELES - A man twice convicted and sentenced to death for the 1979 murder of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl must get a new trial or be released from death row, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson, ruling in a federal habeas corpus petition, said that the trial judge prevented Rodney James Alcala's lawyers from developing and presenting evide...
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