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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:30 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 22 September 2010 03:30
From the Sacramento Bee:
On the day before Easter 2004, David Lee Hill fatally shot San Francisco Police Officer Isaac Espinoza and wounded his partner with an AK-47 assault rifle as they approached him for acting suspiciously in the city’s Bayview area.
District Attorney Kamala Harris’ decision not to seek the death penalty has become a lightning rod in this year’s race for state attorney general pitting her against Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, a leader in sending killers to death row.
“Voters are going to want an attorney general who does not impose his or her own personal ideology or political agenda on the office,” said Kevin Spillane, Cooley’s spokesman. “That, in essence, is what Harris has done.”
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