Attorneys for the man convicted in the 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas pleaded with a Santa Clara County judge on Friday to reconsider their client’s decades-old death sentence, arguing that a new state law mandates he be given another chance to avoid execution.
Attorneys for the man convicted in the 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas pleaded with a Santa Clara County judge on Friday to reconsider their client’s decades-old death sentence , arguing that a new state law mandates he be given another chance to avoid execution. Suggesting that “an illegal sentence must be vacated — full stop,” the attorneys for Richard Allen Davis presented their case in court Friday to Judge Benjamin Williams.
The hearing follows outlining a bid that, if successful, could invalidate Davis’ death sentence and leave him eligible for a full resentencin
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