“It is clear that the prosecution of this case was very problematic,” DA Pamela Price said Wednesday.
OAKLAND — Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price must decide in the next two months whether to retry or release a local death row inmate of 33 years amid revelations of prosecutorial misconduct during his trial in the early 1990s.
Price subsequently announced plans to review the cases of 35 locals still living on death row for signs of racism, bigotry or misconduct — calling it an “ethical obligation” that was beyond “left or right or any kind of politics.” At leastAt a press conference Wednesday, Price said she agreed with the attorney general’s decision to seek to have Ervin’s conviction thrown out.
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