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Juror's FBI status overturns decades old murder conviction

By Jason Siegel

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An federal judge overturned the conviction of a man on death row for raping and murdering a woman in Garden Grove because the jury foreman lied about his job and didn't disclose he was a prospective FBI agent.

Federal District Court judge Consuelo B. Marshall overturned the 1985 conviction based on the "false and misleading" statements by the jury foreman, now a Portland FBI agent. Marshall ordered to inmate to be released or granted a new trial.

A decision hasn't made by the attorney general's office on whether to appeal.

"I'm reluctant to say it, but I would say this provides a legitimate basis to overturn it," the original judge in the case, retired Orange County Superior Court judge Donald McCartin, told the Los Angeles Times.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).

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