Man to Again Face Death Sentence in Retrial
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A Pacoima man whose death sentence was overturned by the California Supreme Court because of misconduct by a prosecutor is again facing capital punishment.
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Shawn Hill in a retrial on murder and attempted murder charges, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.
Hill is accused of stabbing two men, one fatally, in 1986 after they complained that he had sold them fake cocaine.
Deputy Public Defender Arthur Braudrick, who is representing Hill, said he was “shocked” that the death penalty was again being sought, citing “tremendous misconduct by the district attorney” in the first trial and his client’s good behavior during the decade he spent on death row.
In April, the Supreme Court overturned Hill’s conviction, citing “gross misconduct” in his 1988 trial by Deputy Dist. Atty. Rosalie Morton.
Victoria Pipkin, a spokeswoman for Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti, would not reveal the results of an internal review of the allegations against Morton.
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