A Los Angeles man twice convicted of murdering his father, stepmother and 8-year-old stepsister 40 years ago had his death sentence reversed Thursday by the California Supreme Court.
FILE - California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation a chair is removed from the death penalty chamber at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., March 13, 2019. Robert Bloom, a Los Angeles man twice convicted of murdering his father, stepmother and 8-year-old stepsister 40 years ago had his death sentence reversed Thursday, April 21, 2022 by the California Supreme Court.
“Defense counsel conceded, over Bloom’s objection, both that Bloom killed Josephine and Sandra and that Bloom should be held criminally liable for the killings,” Justice Leondra Kruger wrote. “Counsel’s decision to concede Bloom’s guilt on these counts cannot be squared with a rule that gives the criminal defendant the right to ‘oppos . . . any admission of guilt.’”
Bloom, then 18, shot his father in the front lawn then went inside the house and shot his stepmother and shot and stabbed his stepsister, prosecutors said. Bloom was first convicted in 1983 and sentenced to die in 1984. A federal appeals court overturned the case in 1997 because his attorney failed to effectively investigate and present evidence of mental impairment.During his second trial, jurors convicted Bloom of first-degree murder in his father's slaying but couldn't reach a verdict in the other two counts.
The California Supreme Court reversed the death sentence because jurors had found Bloom committed multiple murders.
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