Los Angeles man twice convicted of murdering his father, stepmother and 8-year-old stepsister 40 years ago has his death sentence reversed by the California Supreme Court.
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Bloom admitted gunning down his father, Robert Bloom Sr., but denied he killed the other two. His attorneys, however, told jurors he had killed Josephine Bloom and her daughter, Sandra Hughes, as part of a legal strategy to claim that his mental state made those crimes manslaughter and not murder. The 7-0 ruling came on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the killings in the Sun Valley section of Los Angeles.
The day before the killing, Bloom called his father from a pay phone and said, “You’re running my life now, but you won’t be for long," according to one witness. Because Bloom had said he was insane at the time of the killings, another phase of trial was held in which jurors found he was sane when he killed his father, but they couldn't reach a sanity verdict on the two other killings.
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