SAN FRANCISCO — A retired judge who set the stage for the possible retrial of a death row inmate has come under attack from prosecutors who say his reasoning showed “confusion,” contained “insurmountable legal errors” and demonstrated a “fundamental misunderstanding” of the law.
Former Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Richard Arnason’s “legal and factual errors,” they maintain, “infect his entire fact-finding process and his conclusions.”
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