Legal Opinion
Maxwell v. Roe
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 30, 2010No. 06-56093PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAEZ, Circuit Judge:
Bobby Joe Maxwell was arrested in April 1979 and charged with murdering ten men in downtown Los Angeles, California. The media dubbed the murders for which Maxwell was charged the “Skid Row Stabber” killings. The prosecution’s best physical evidence linking Maxwell to any of the crime scenes was a palm print on a public bench found near the body of one of the victims. The bench, however, was located in an area Maxwell frequented, and the prosecution was unable to isolate the age of the print. Lacking solid physical evidence, the prosecution rested its case on the…
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