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March 7, 2003 | H.G. Reza, Times Staff Writer
Orange County prosecutors and public defenders have formed a novel partnership to determine whether prisoners have been wrongly convicted of crimes. As part of the 2-year-old effort, 20 inmates, including rapists and murderers, serving lengthy prison sentences will have their cases reviewed to determine if they were wrongfully convicted in Orange County Superior Court.
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July 11, 1992 | MATT LAIT, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Cynthia Lynn Coffman, who faces the death penalty for one murder, was spared a second death sentence Friday by an Orange County jury that recommended life in prison for the strangulation of a Huntington Beach teen-ager. As the jury's verdict was read, Coffman's attorney victoriously waved his arm in the air, while members of the victim's family sat stunned in the crowded courtroom. Coffman, a 30-year-old former cocktail waitress from St.
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January 14, 1997 | NANCY CLEELAND, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Appearing slightly dazed and nervous, former Orange County Treasurer Robert L. Citron reported to his new court-mandated job Monday morning at a nondescript building in a small industrial neighborhood where he will sort requests from jail inmates for deodorant and postage stamps.
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December 30, 1995
The O.J. Simpson double murder trial. * The prison sentences for Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon, who were convicted of violating Rodney King's civil rights. * The lawsuit over the quake-flattened Northridge Meadows apartments, which ended with a $1-million-plus settlement. * The criminal case against Orange County Treasurer Robert L. Citron, who pleaded guilty to six felonies involving fraud and misappropriation of public money in connection with the county's declaration of bankruptcy in 1994.
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May 3, 1990 | DAVAN MAHARAJ and MATT LAIT, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
A priest who was convicted of molesting four altar boys at his Huntington Beach church several years ago has been arrested in New Mexico on suspicion of child molestation, authorities said Wednesday. Andrew Christian Andersen was arrested in Albuquerque, N.M., on suspicion of child molestation, assault and kidnaping, police said. Albuquerque Police Sgt. John Sanchez said Andersen allegedly forced a teen-age boy into his vehicle, assaulted him and attempted to sodomize him.
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August 31, 1994 | ANNA CEKOLA, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A Los Angeles couple were ordered to trial Tuesday on murder and conspiracy charges for the slaying of a witness to a 1991 Orange County computer store robbery. William Clinton Clark, 40, and Antoinette Yancey, 26, face a possible death sentence if convicted of killing Ardell Williams last March in Gardena. In addition, Municipal Judge B. Tam Nomoto in Santa Ana ordered Clark to stand trial for a second killing.