Orange County mass shooter spared death penalty as judge rules on fallout from jail informant scandal
by By James Queally, Los Angeles Times
Aug 18, 2017
2 minutes
LOS ANGELES _ An Orange County, Calif., judge on Friday threw out the possibility of a death sentence for the man who murdered eight people at a Seal Beach salon in 2011, ruling that law enforcement has repeatedly failed to turn over relevant evidence about the use of jailhouse informants.
The decision by Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals marked the latest stinging rebuke for the county's
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