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Jan 2, 2015
Traffic accident 30 years ago could spare inmate the death penalty
A man who killed two others in a 1989 Tucson drug ripoff will get a chance to escape being executed. In a split decision on Dec. 29, the majority of a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the attorney for Eric Owen Mann failed to investigate the effects that a 1985 traffic accident might have had on him.
