Charges against a convicted murderer regarding solicitation to attack an Orange County sheriff's sergeant were dismissed Tuesday when the defendant's attorneys argued prosecutorial misconduct.
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An Orange County judge granted a new trial this week to a man convicted of stabbing a Sunset Beach man to death after sheriff's deputies declined to testify in court about their alleged misuse of illegal informants to obtain incriminating information from accused defendants.