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By Cassie DickmanThe Stockton Record

One by one p ro s ec u -tors from nearly a dozen California counties recounted at a plea hearing Monday as what can only be described as the most heinous and violent crimes attributed to Joseph James DeAngelo, the prolific serial killer and rapist known as the Golden State Killer.

More then 150 people, including victims, victim’s families and media, attended the hearing held in a make-shift courtroom inside the University Ballroom on the Sacramento State University campus to hear DeAngelo plead guilty to 26 charges — 13 counts of first degree murder and 13 counts of kidnapping.

Each time the judge asked the 74-year-old former police officer his plea, he replied: “Guilty.”

The hearing signifies the end of a decades-long inves-tigation into a crime spree that terrorized communi-ties across both northern and southern California in

the 1970s and '80s, which included more than a dozen murders, nearly 50 sexual assaults and the ransacking of more than 100 homes.

DeAngelo struck a plea deal with prosecutors that will sentence him to life in prison without the possibility of parole in lieu of the death penalty. As part of the deal, DeAngelo was also required to admit to dozens of other

uncharged crimes. The stat-ute of limitations had already expired on many of the rape cases in which DeAngelo was accused when he was arrested in April of 2018.

Waiting decades for justice

For more than three hours, DeAngelo sat in a wheel-chair wearing a face shield flanked by his attorneys

while prosecuters took turns describing harrowing tales of robbery, assault, rape and murder that occurred over a 10-year period from 1975 to 1986.

Many of the victims were referred to only as Jane and John Does, including in the additional uncharged crimes. Eleven counties had open cases against the Golden State Killer, but just six — Sacramento, C o n t r a C o s t a , O r a n g e , Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura — brought formal charges against DeAngelo in the joint prosecution, led by the Sacramento District Attorney’s office.

District attorney’s offices w h e r e t h e a d d i t i o n a l uncharged crimes were com-mitted agreed to abstain from prosecuting DeAngelo per the plea agreement.

“The family members of the murder victims have waited for decades for jus-tice for their loved ones. The sexual assault victims have

Man known as the Golden State Killer admits to dozens of rapes, murders

Joseph James DeAngelo, the prolific serial killer and rapist known as the Golden State Killer who terrorized Northern and Southern California for about a decade in the 1970s and 80s, pleaded guilty to dozens of charges on Monday inside the in Sacramento State Ballroom. [CALIXTRO

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Joesph James DeAngelo stands during a hearing before the Sacramento County Court being held inside the Sacramento State Ballroom. A large group of families of victims were in attendance for Monday’s hearing. [CALIXTRO ROMIAS/THE STOCKTON RECORD]

By Tamara Lush and Emily SchmallThe Associated Press

The city of Jacksonville, Florida, where mask-averse President Donald Trump plans to accept the Republican nomina-tion in August, ordered the wearing of face coverings Monday, joining the list of state and local govern-ments reversing course to try to beat back a resur-gence of the coronavirus.

Less than a week after Mayor Lenny Curry said there would be no mask requirement, city officials announced that coverings must be worn in “situa-tions where individuals cannot socially distance.”

White House spokes-woman Kayleigh McEnany responded by saying the president’s advice is to “do whatever your local juris-diction requests of you.”

Trump has refused to wear a mask during visits to states and businesses that require them.

In recent weeks, the Republicans moved some of the convention pag-eantry to Jacksonville after Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina objected to the holding of a large gathering in Charlotte without social-distancing measures. The convention will be in late August.

F l o r i d a G o v . R o n DeSantis, a Republican, has opposed a state-wide mask requirement but said in response to Jacksonvil le’s action t h a t h e w i l l s u p p o r t local authorities who are doing what they think is appropriate.

The Jacksonville order came on the same day

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By Richard WolfUSA TODAY

WASHINGTON – A nar-rowly divided Supreme Court struck down state restric-tions on abortion clinics Monday for the second time in four years, signaling that its conservative shift under President Donald Trump has not eliminated a deep split over abortion rights.

The court ruled 5-4 that a Louisiana law requiring doc-tors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges

at nearby hospitals would unduly burden women. Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote, though he did not sign on to the lead opinion endorsed by the court’s four liberal justices.

The court reached the same conclusion in 2016 regarding a Texas law, but since then, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh succeeded retired Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, giving abortion opponents hope

SCOTUS strikes down abortion restrictions in Louisiana

Pro-choice activists supporting legal access to abortion protest during a demonstration, March 4, outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., as the Court hears oral arguments regarding a Louisiana law about abortion access in the first major abortion case in years. [SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES AND USA TODAY]

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