Criminal
Sep. 8, 2010
Prosecutors Win Discovery Fight
A U.S. judge curbed discovery requests by a defendant who is using San Francisco's crime lab scandal to challenge his federal death penalty conviction.
By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors hoping a federal judge will uphold their conviction last year in the Northern District's first death penalty case in decades won a ruling Tuesday that they do not have to continue to seek evidence about inconsistencies in the San Francisco Police Department Crime Laboratory on behalf of the defendant.
Dennis Cyrus Jr., a gang member, was convicted of ki...
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