L.A. Times: Death Sentence Reversed by Mystery Judges
A man who threatened to rape his therapist, and then murdered her husband when she dropped him as a client, had his death sentence reversed yesterday, according to this Los Angeles Times story.
The story doesn’t bother to tell readers who appointed the judges who decided this case. That’s why you come to Patterico, right?
I’m sure it will come as a great shock that the decision was rendered by three Democrat-appointed judges.
The decision can be accessed here. It was written by Clinton appointee William A. Fletcher. Fletcher was joined by Carter appointee Dorothy Wright Nelson and Clinton appointee Raymond C. Fisher.
My point is not that the decision was necessarily wrong. I haven’t read it, and I don’t criticize judicial opinions that I haven’t read. My contention is simple: regardless of the validity of the decision, when judges overturn a death sentence, newspapers should tell their readers who those judges are. It makes me wonder why this tidbit didn’t make it into today’s story.