Serial Killer Naso Ordered To Pay $171K For Assistance In Defense
Marin County Superior Court Judge James T. Chou ordered convicted serial killer Joseph Naso to pay the county nearly $171,000 for expenses incurred during his murder trial this year.
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Marin County Superior Court Judge James T. Chou ordered convicted serial killer Joseph Naso to pay the county nearly $171,000 for expenses incurred during his murder trial this year.
A Marin County Superior Court jury has recommended death for a 79-year-old former photographer convicted in the decades-old murders of four women in what became known as the 'double initial' serial killings.
Convicted serial killer Joseph Naso asked a Marin County jury to spare his life during his two-hour closing argument Monday afternoon.
The testimony at the penalty phase of Joseph Naso's quadruple murder trial in Marin County Superior Court ended late Friday afternoon with a woman, who believes Naso drugged her during a modeling photography session, stating she does not want him put to death.
The ex-wife of convicted serial killer Joseph Naso testified Wednesday morning she believes she was sexually assaulted by two men in a hotel room after Naso put a "knockout drug" in her drink at a San Francisco nightclub in the summer of 1976.
The penalty phase of convicted serial killer Joseph Naso's Marin County Superior Court trial ended Tuesday morning with a testy exchange between Naso and Judge Andrew Sweet after the jury left for a lunch break.
A Marin County jury on Tuesday found Joseph Naso guilty of killing four women in the Bay Area and Yuba County between 1977 and 1994.
Marin County jurors presiding over the trial of an elderly photographer accused of being a serial killer who murdered four Northern California prostitutes began deliberating late Monday.
Accused serial killer Joseph Naso said Friday morning that the prosecution's case alleging that he killed four prostitutes in Northern California is based on illegal, circumstantial evidence, opinion, speculation and conjecture.
Joseph Naso, facing the death penalty for the murders of four women, mocked the prosecutor during interviews with prospective jurors.
A Marin County Superior Court judge has set a trial date of Nov. 5 for accused serial killer Joseph Naso.
The Marin County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday morning it will seek the death penalty against accused serial killer Joseph Naso.
Photos of two Yuba County women who were murdered in the 1990s were found in a safe deposit box belonging to Joseph Naso, the man accused of killing them and two Bay Area women, a Nevada detective testified Thursday morning.
Two Nevada Department of Public Safety officers testified Wednesday morning that they found cash, guns, mannequins dressed in nylons, and a diary documenting sexual assaults when they searched accused serial killer Joseph Naso's Reno home in 2010.
Prosecutors began detailing their case Tuesday against a suspected serial killer charged in the decades-old slayings of four women from the Bay Area and other parts of Northern California with matching initials.
Accused serial killer Joseph Naso once again is his own attorney.
A Marin County Superior Court judge Friday morning granted accused serial killer Joseph Naso the right to represent himself on charges of murdering four Northern California women.
A Rio Vista man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography, authorities said.
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