LOS ANGELES (CN) - A California appeals court ordered a trial judge to reconsider his denial of access to grand jury material to a man who claims he spent 24 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza refused to grant Thomas Goldstein access to raw materials received by grand juries in the late 1980s and 1990 in investigating misuse of jailhouse informants. Goldstein wanted the material to support his false imprisonment claim against the City of
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