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Federal Court Overturns Death Sentence

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A federal appeals court has overturned the death sentence of a Sacramento hitchhiker convicted of murdering a man whose van he stole in 1985. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of

Appeals said a typographical error in instructions to the jury may have biased panelists to vote for the death penalty.

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