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"S.F. grapples with 1st death trials in years"

"S.F. grapples with 1st death trials in years": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "For the first time since 1948, lives are at stake in a San Francisco federal courtroom. Two alleged gang members went on trial before separate juries last week, each accused of three murders as part of a racketeering enterprise to control local drug trafficking. The Justice Department is seeking the death penalty for both defendants, in one case over the objections of the U.S. attorney's office, which had agreed on a 40-year prison sentence."

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 01, 2009 (boomark / email).