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,Jul 07, 2020
74-Year-Old ‘Golden State Killer’ Joseph DeAngelo Pleads Guilty to 13 Murders and Rapes, Gets 11 Life Sentences
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. (pictured), the “Golden State Killer,” whom prosecutors had one year earlier held out as a “poster child for the death penalty,” has pleaded guilty to 13 counts each of murder and rape in exchange for multiple life sentences. At a June 29, 2020 hearing, the 74-year-old former police officer admitted to a total of 161 crimes involving 48 victims, including dozens of rapes that could not be charged because the statute of limitations on prosecuting them had long ago…
Apr 25, 2020
News Brief — Coronavirus Effects Continue to be Felt in Capital Prosecutions
NEWS (4/24/20) — California: The death penalty trial of Kori Muhammad for the killings of four people in two separate incidents ended without advancing to a penalty phase just two days after a Fresno County jury convicted him of one count of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder. The trial had been interrupted by coronavirus court closures, with guilt-phase jury deliberations halted for four weeks in March, then completed on April 22. Prosecutors agreed to withdraw the…