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Law Practice

Nov. 19, 2008

High Court Blocks Grand Jury Disclosure

The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a trial judge can't unseal grand jury evidence about the Los Angeles jailhouse-informant scandal of the 1980s for a man who spent 24 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a trial judge can't unseal grand jury evidence about the Los Angeles jailhouse-informant scandal of the 1980s for a man who spent 24 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.

The ruling is the second batch of bad news for Thomas Lee Goldstein from a high court in two weeks. Earlier this month, justices on the U.S. Supreme Court seemed ...

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