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Obituaries

Jul. 6, 2022

Donald H. Heller, 1943 - 2022

Sacramento attorney fought for death penalty, then against

Donald H. Heller, who died last week at 79 after a battle with prostate cancer, was a link to Sacramento’s freewheeling past.

McGregor W. Scott, the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, recalled a phone conversation with Heller over a decade ago.

“I got a call one day from the Secret Service saying that the Bureau of Prisons had granted Squeaky Fromme parole,” Scott said Tuesday. “They ...

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