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    California killer given additional death sentence

    One of the most prolific killers in Los Angeles history was given an additional death sentence Friday.

    Chester D. Turner, who was already on death row for murdering 10 women, was sentenced for four more murders.

    "It is the order of this court that you should suffer the death penalty," Superior Court Judge Robert Perry said.

    The slayings during the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s were once thought to be the work of one man dubbed the "Southside Slayer."

    The 47-year-old Turner is one of three men now blamed for the murders of women who typically were raped and strangled. Many were prostitutes.

    The former pizza delivery man was convicted in June of the additional slayings between 1987 and 1997.

    Another man imprisoned 11 years for three of those killings was freed after DNA evidence pointed to Turner.

    http://lacrossetribune.com/news/nati...d529cb40d.html
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    Turner's direct appeal of his first death sentence has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since January 18, 2017.

    https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca....9RICAgCg%3D%3D

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    On the 17th of January 2019, Turner was appointed counsel for direct appeal of his second death sentence.

    https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca....lTUCAgCg%3D%3D

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    On September 2, 2020, oral argument will be heard before the California Supreme Court in Turner's direct appeal of his first death sentence.

    https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/...s/SSEP220A.PDF

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    California high court upholds death penalty for man convicted of raping, strangling 10 women in L.A.

    The Associated Press

    The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence for a man convicted of raping and strangling 10 women in Los Angeles. However, the court reversed his conviction for the death of one victim’s fetus.

    Chester Dewayne Turner, a 54-year-old one-time pizza deliveryman, was convicted in 2007 of first-degree murder for killing the women over the course of more than a decade in the 1980s and 1990s. Most victims were vulnerable women who were homeless, drug users or prostitutes, prosecutors said.

    Turner also was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of the female fetus of a woman who was about 6 1/2 months pregnant.

    During an automatic appeal, the state Supreme Court agreed with defense attorneys who argued that hearsay evidence about the ability of the child to survive outside the womb undermined the second-degree murder conviction.

    However, the court ruled that error didn’t require throwing out the death sentence for Turner, who is considered one of the city’s most prolific serial killers.

    The court also said other issues raised by the defense, including some technical arguments about DNA matches between Turner and crime evidence, didn’t require reversing Turner’s convictions or sentences for killing the women.

    Turner was convicted of four additional killings in 2014 and sentenced to death. That case is on appeal.

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    On October 28, 2020, Turner filed a habeas petition before the California Supreme Court.

    https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca....xSUCAgCg%3D%3D

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