Update: Cameron Brown RPV cliff-death case
It looks like the murder re-trial for Cameron Brown could begin later this month - just about two years after a Torrance jury deadlocked between first-degree murder, second-degree murder and manslaughter charges.
A pretrial was held yesterday in Brown's case in its new home before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor. However, Brown wasn't there. Sheriff's deputies told Pastor that Brown refused to leave the jail to come to court, according to Deputy District Attorney Craig Hum. There was no explanation given for Brown's boycott of the proceeding, during which another pretrial was scheduled for July 15.
Brown is charged with special circumstances murder for the November 2000 death of his 4-year-old daughter, Lauren Sarene-Key, who died after plunging off a Rancho Palos Verdes cliff near Inspiration Point. Prosecutors contend he killed her to shirk his child support responsibility, while Brown maintains the little girl slipped.
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