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Appellate Practice

Dec. 23, 1999

Inmate Claims His Confession Was Not True

Ordered by a judge to demonstrate why a man's 1980 murder conviction should not be vacated, prosecutors contended that another prison inmate who confessed to the slaying in 1996 did so falsely in return for a promise of $10,000 from the convicted killer.

By Michael D. Harris
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        Ordered by a judge to demonstrate why a man's 1980 murder conviction should not be vacated, prosecutors contended that another prison inmate who confessed to the slaying in 1996 did so falsely in return for a promise of $10,000 from the convicted killer.
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