Santa Clarita Woman's Death Sentence Reversed for Murders of Four Daughters
By City News Service May 3, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The California Supreme Court today reversed a Santa Clarita woman's death sentence for murdering her four young daughters in an arson fire at the family's home more than two decades ago. The state's highest court upheld Sandi Dawn Nieves' conviction for the killings, but cited the “trial court's misconduct'' in overturning the 57-year-old woman's death sentence for the July 1, 1998, killings of Jaqlene Marie Folden, 5, Kristl Dawn Folden, 7, Rashel Hollie Nieves, 11, and Nikolet Amber Nieves, 12, who died from inhaling soot, smoke and ca...