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Los Angeles County has moved a program providing attorneys to poor criminal defendants from the L.A. County Bar Assn. to the overworked office of the public defender.
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced the appointment of 15 superior court judges across the state, with five for counties in the Bay Area including Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
Virgil Delano Presnell Jr., 68, was sentenced to death for the murder of an 8-year-old and rape of her 10-year-old friend after abducting them in May 1976 as they walked home from school in Cobb County.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Supreme Court says that a state pledge to not execute some inmates until certain conditions are met following the COVID-19 pandemic is a binding contract that the state can't ignore.
Amplifying Atlanta