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Criminal

Feb. 21, 2007

What Led to Rare Federal Death Verdict?

LOS ANGELES - In last week's landmark death-penalty case, a federal jury sentenced two men to die for engineering a gruesome kidnapping-and-murder plot that left five innocent victims dead.

By Robert Iafolla
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - In last week's landmark death-penalty case, a federal jury sentenced two men to die for engineering a gruesome kidnapping-and-murder plot that left five innocent victims dead.
      Although the jury heard two weeks of testimony during the penalty phase, one of the defendants, Iori Mikhel, did not.

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