The prosecutor who put Terry Pitchford on death row faced Supreme Court scrutiny in 2019 over his efforts to exclude Black jurors while trying another man six times for the same crime.

Rights were not trammeled in the case of a man who admitted in a jail cell to an undercover police officer, posing as a suspect in a homicide who was recently released from prison, that he had committed a murder, even though his Miranda rights were invoked prior to the disclosure, Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday, differentiating the facts from those presented in a Feb. 10 decision.

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The building at 350 W. First Street in the Los Angeles Civic Center will today be named the Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez United States Courthouse in honor of the parents of an 8-year-old girl on whose behalf they successfully challenged the establishment of “Mexican schools” in Orange County.