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A Santa Clara County Judge rejected condemned California murderer Richard Allen Davis’ petition to vacate his death sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl.\u00a0 Louis Casiano and Audrey Conklin of Fox News report<\/a> that the murderer’s attorneys argued that changes in state sentencing laws under Governor’s Brown and Newsom, including Newsom’s moratorium on executions, made Davis eligible for a reduced sentence. The judge was not buying, noting that the changes in the law allowed murderers sentenced to life without parole if they were 25 or younger at the time of the killing to ask for a lesser sentence, but did not include murderers sentenced to death. Davis kidnapped Polly Klaas from her bedroom in 1993, sexually assaulted her then killed her.\u00a0 She was not found until Davis was arrested two months after her disappearance and led police to her body.\u00a0 The case made national headlines and helped convince state voters to adopt the Three Strikes and Your Out, ballot measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Santa Clara County Judge rejected condemned California murderer Richard Allen Davis’ petition to vacate his death sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl.\u00a0 Louis Casiano and Audrey Conklin of Fox News report that the murderer’s attorneys argued that changes in state sentencing laws under Governor’s Brown and Newsom, including Newsom’s moratorium on executions, made Davis eligible for a reduced sentence. The judge was not buying, noting that the changes in the law allowed murderers sentenced to life without parole if they were 25 or younger at the time of the killing to ask for a lesser sentence, but did not include murderers sentenced to death. Davis kidnapped Polly Klaas from her bedroom in 1993, sexually assaulted her then killed her.\u00a0 She was not found until Davis was arrested two months after her disappearance and led police to her body.\u00a0 The case made national headlines and helped convince state voters to adopt the Three Strikes and Your Out, ballot measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nJudge Rejects Murderer's Bid to Vacate Death Sentence - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=10454\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Judge Rejects Murderer's Bid to Vacate Death Sentence - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Santa Clara County Judge rejected condemned California murderer Richard Allen Davis’ petition to vacate his death sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl.\u00a0 Louis Casiano and Audrey Conklin of Fox News report that the murderer’s attorneys argued that changes in state sentencing laws under Governor’s Brown and Newsom, including Newsom’s moratorium on executions, made Davis eligible for a reduced sentence. 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