Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said her office is weighing their options after a federal judge overturned the murder conviction of a man who was on death row for 33 years, due to prosecutorial misconduct.
OAKLAND â Price announced Wednesday that the conviction of 71-year-old Curtis Lee Ervin was overturned following a review by California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office. Ervin was among three people convicted in the 1986 murder-for-hire of Carlene McDonald. He was sentenced to death in 1991.'Unfortunately, the California Attorney General determined after a review that the death sentence and conviction of Mr.
According to the Bay Area News Group, Anderson retired from the DA's office in 2004.'Anderson, during jury selection, he exercised his peremptory challenges in a way to exclude nine out of 11 Black jurors and one Jewish juror, that were denied the opportunity. The right to serve on a jury on a death penalty case,' the DA said.McDonald was white, while Ervin is black.'This office did have a practice of excluding Black people and Jews from juries.
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