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High Court's Death Penalty Reversals Examined

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The California Supreme Court has reversed five death penalty cases since December. That tally could rise Monday, when the court is expected to issue another death penalty case decision. This clutch of reversals so far follows two years without a single reversal. Is this a statistical blip, or is something else going on?

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