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Ninth Circuit Overturns Death Penalty, Allows Conviction to Stand: Paul Elias reports for the Associated Press that the Reinhart court has ruled that the defense's failure to investigate blood evidence that did not belong to either the defendant or the victim in a 1984 murder might have precluded the death penalty by implicating an accomplice as the actual killer. LA Gang Raid Leads to Dozens of Arrests: According to the Hennessy-Fiske and Blankstein article for the LA Times, an early morning raid by a task force of more than 500 law enforcement officials resulted in dozens of arrests. 70 individuals were listed on a federal racketeering indictment while 28 others had outstanding warrants. The raid focused on the "Avenues" gang concentrated in Northeast LA...continue to full post

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