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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The District Attorney’s Office won’t seek the death penalty for a man charged with two counts of murder in a shooting last year on South Union Avenue. Assistant District Attorney Joseph Kinzel made the announcement in court Friday, and a new trial date for 30-year-old Brian Castellon was set in May. […]
Kern County authorities have released few details about the shooting, and the victims' relatives said they've been given no updates, left to wonder what happened.
Doris Shotwell, Struggs' mother, says she is relieved and happy that her son will finally be coming home and asks supporters to keep praying for him.
A man who was imprisoned for 42 years under a now-defunct California law had his release petition granted in court. Cedric Struggs, 60, has been in prison since he was 18.
A change in California state law could free a man who says he was wrongly convicted of murder in 1981.