The state attorney general’s office will appeal a judge’s decision to remove Orange County prosecutors from their highest profile murder case, which the judge said had become a “comedy of errors” in the hands of the district attorney’s office.
State prosecutors made the announcement Friday in front of Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals, who last week booted the district attorney’s office off the case after ruling the office had violated Scott Dekraai’s rights by improperly withholding evidence from the defense.
The appeal threatens another delay in the proceedings against Dekraai, who pleaded guilty to eight counts of murder in a shooting rampage at a Seal Beach beauty salon 3½ years ago and now faces a potential death sentence. An appeal could take a year or longer.
The attorney general’s office stood to inherit the case had Orange County prosecutors stepped aside.
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