Murderer’s Sentence Nullified a Third Time
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
One of California’s longest-serving death row inmates has had his sentence overturned for the third time. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Lavell Frierson’s attorney erred by failing to tell jurors of the defendant’s history of mental retardation and child abuse.
Frierson, 49, is on death row for the 1978 murder of Edgardo Kramer, a Peruvian airline employee, near Los Angeles International Airport. His sentence will be commuted to life in prison without parole unless there’s another penalty trial.
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