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"Institutionalization" Fails as Criminal Defense at Trial and on Appeal

Loaded on May 15, 2009

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Attorney Misconduct, Public Defenders, Prosecutors. Location: California.

On May 14, 2008, a California court of appeals upheld the conviction of a man who said he committed an inept bank robbery because he wanted to return to prison.

Horace Bordelon, a California state prisoner, spent seven years in prison for robbing a bank. A week after he was ...

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