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302:, as they pressured him to confess under the threat of death and while he was under the influence of drugs. While the courts disagreed with a majority of the claims, Haley's death sentence was nonetheless overturned, and on August 27, 2004, he was granted a new trial. However, at the second trial, the District Attorney's Office refused to downgrade the charges to manmslaughter and again charged Haley with first-degree murder. He was therefore found guilty yet again, and his death sentence was reinstated.
191:. He was the younger of two brothers, with his older brother Reginald being born in 1960. Around 1965, the Haley family moved to Los Angeles, California, where the two brothers began living criminal lifestyles and living off stealing. In the early 1980s, the pair developed an addiction to crack cocaine, which investigators would later claim was the main reason as to why the brothers started killing. At the time of the crimes, Kevin worked as a dog groomer.
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In the early 2010s, DNA testing was conducted on biological traces found on the body of
Laverne Stolzy. The results showed a match to the genotypic profile of Kevin Haley, after which the District Attorney's Office filed an appeal to overturn his acquittal, which was granted. In 2014, Haley was
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Clement and were shown a diagram of the crime scene drawn by him. This, accompanied by the fact that his fingerprints were found at the crime scene, convinced them that he was indeed guilty and he was
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neighborhoods. During interrogations, the brothers partially admitted that they were responsible for the burglaries and assaults, but adamantly insisted that they were not murderers. By
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fingerprints were taken and later matched to the crime scene. As a result, he was re-arrested by police officers at his own home on
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on whether he had killed Stolzy. Because of this, they voted 9-to-3 in favor of an acquittal in the Stolzy murder, due to a lack of evidence. In regards to the murder of
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