Los Angeles County (Norwalk)
By Laurinda Keys
Daily Journal Staff Writer
NORWALK - Having handled serious criminal cases for most of his 37 years as a bench officer, Judge Michael Cowell loves his job, but owns up to a few frustrations.
One of them: "That the law requires you to state a fiction to jurors in death penalty cases. You cannot allow them to consider the possibility of life without parole as being a more stringent penalty than death," Cowell said.
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