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CA Man’s Sentence Overturned Regarding 2013 Murder of His Parents

In January 2021, a California man was sentenced to two life terms for the murder of his parents, leaving his sister devastated, but now, the case has taken a turn after an appeals court decided to overturn his conviction and remand the case for a new trial.

Prior to this development, “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty reported on the case in “A Sister’s Fight for her Brother.”

When Brandon Pettit, now 35 years old, was arrested in August 2013 for the murders of his parents in Modesto, California, there was no physical evidence directly tying him to the crime. Instead, police and prosecutors based their case on things the then-25-year-old Pettit had said and done shortly before and after the murders, including statements he made to police in a videotaped interview prior to his arrest. Now, more than two years after his conviction, a California appeals court has ruled that those statements Pettit made during that police interview should not have been admitted at his trial because police should have read him his Miranda rights.

Read the source article at cbsnews.com

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