The retrial of a former West Hollywood restaurant owner convicted of conspiring to kill a government witness involved in the probe of alleged ticket scalping at the 1980 Super Bowl opened Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court.
The first trial of H. Daniel Whitman, 55, ended in his conviction and an eight-year sentence in 1984 on charges of conspiring to murder protected government witness Raymond Cohen. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last year ordered U.S. District Judge Francis Whelan to grant a new trial.
