Lonnie Loren Kocontes, 62, was convicted June 15 of murder with a special-circumstance allegation of murder for financial gain in the killing of 52-year- old.
A judge has found that a Southern California district attorney violated the state’s new racial justice law in his discussions of a Black man who was sentenced to life without parole in a double murder case
Just before sentencing a double-murderer to two life-without-parole prison terms, an Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Friday that District Attorney Todd Spitzer violated the recently enacted Racial Justice Act in the case by making racially charged comments while discussing the prosecution.