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Impact Of Gov. Brown's Supreme Court Appointees:     Maura Dolan of the LA Times reports  that California Governor Jerry Brown's most recent appointees have provided enough votes on the seven-member Supreme Court to force reconsideration of a death penalty case upheld last January.  The case of People v. Grimes involves the brutal robbery-murder of a 98-year-old woman by habitual felon Gary Grimes and two accomplices.  The Court's January decision  rejected numerous claims of trial and  sentencing error and upheld the conviction and sentence with a 4 justice majority, one concurring and dissenting and two dissenting.  The same day the decision was announced, Brown appointees Mariano-Florentino Cuellar and Leondra Kruger were sworn in as justices.  In a brief order yesterday, the court announced it would reconsider the case with the two new justices voting with the two dissenters. 

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The wave is coming California. History repeats itself, once again. There are around 700 people cheering at San Quentin as I write.

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