The LA Times reports that the LA District Attorney’s office will retry Bruce Lisker for the 1983 murder of his mother. (Here’s the back story.) Lisker, now 44, has been released on bail after U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips concluded that he was convicted on “false evidence” and that his attorney had failed to adequately represent him.
Lisker went to court on Friday for a new arraignment.
Here’s a link to Matt Lait and Scott Glover’s story on Friday’s hearing.
So does the DA’s office know something we don’t know?
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UPDATE: Apparently the prosecutor’s does know something we don’t know, but it is not what you think.
In fact, I just called the D.A.’s office. In seems that the Times has this slightly wrong, according to DA spokeswoman, Sandi Gibbons who said that Lisker has been re-arraigned “out of an abundance of caution,” but that there has been no decision on whether or not Bruce Lisker will be retried.
Lisker will be back in court on August 31 at which time the DA’s office presumably will have made their decision. Sandi Gibbons said that right now the office is leaning in the direction of following through with the retrial, but it is not a done deal.
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(Bruce Lisker photo by Robert Durrell, LA TIMES)
What a waste of tax payer money and resources; is the DA’s office out for venegence in way?
Freedom–>Yes!