Based on belated evidence and the allegedly poor performance...

Based on belated evidence and the allegedly poor performance of trial lawyers, Superior Court Judge Ron Stephens, who presided over the original trial, concluded that Donald John Scanlon should be sentenced anew for the apparent asphyxiation of 64-year-old Claudine Wilson Harris in her home. The only possible penalties for 1st-degree murder, of which Scanlon was convicted in 1998, 2 years after Harris' death, are life in prison without parole or death. Had the lawyers done more, it is possible that the 1998 jury might have voted for life in prison rather than death for Scanlon, Stephens said.