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CA: Recently Retired Judge Withheld Favorable Evidence as Prosecutor

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A California man has been taken off death row after the Santa Clara District Attorney’s office declined to retry the penalty phase of his murder trial. Miguel Bacigalupo’s death sentence was vacated by the California Supreme Court late last year due to the suppression of exculpatory evidence by a state investigator, Sandra Williams, who actively dissuaded the defendant’s trial lawyers from conducting an investigation that might have turned up the exculpatory information she was withholding....