Misconduct Dooms Bid to Execute OC Mass Murderer

Courthousenews by DON DEBENEDICTIS  August 18, 2017

SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) - Nearly six years after the worst mass murder
in Orange County, California, history, a state court judge ruled
Friday that convicted killer Scott Dekraai cannot be sentenced to
death because law enforcement officials repeatedly withheld
information about their pervasive, illegal use of informants in county jails.

In a blistering ruling, Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas
Goethals said it would "be unconscionable, perhaps even cowardly" for
him to ignore "the continuous course of misconduct" carried out by
the county sheriff's department and district attorney's office in not
fully obeying his discovery orders concerning jailhouse informants.

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