USA - California. U.S. District Judge Kimberley J. Mueller overturned the conviction and death sentence of Steven Edward Crittenden, now 46, Black

U.S. District Judge Kimberley J. Mueller overturned the conviction and death sentence of Steven Edward Crittenden, now 46, Black, who has spent 24 years on San Quentin's death row. Judge Mueller in Sacramento faulted the prosecutor's dismissal of the only African American in the jury pool and ordered the state to either start moving toward a retrial or set Crittenden, who is also African American, free within 60 days. Crittenden was convicted by a Placer County jury in 1989 and sentenced to death in the Jan. 13, 1987 home invasion that culminated in the killing of William Chiapella, 67, and his wife Katherine, 66.