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Criminal

Mar. 23, 2000

Burglary Trial Is Transformed Into a Spectacle

INDIO - When Narcisco Medina asked for an attorney on the eve of his burglary trial, he had already been through no fewer than eight of them in less than four years.

By Matthew Heller
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        INDIO - When Narcisco Medina asked for an attorney on the eve of his burglary trial, he had already been through no fewer than eight of them in less than four years.
        Suspecting a delay tactic, Superior Court Judge James S. Hawkins denied the ...

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