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Carlo Mercado is accused in the deaths of Sal and Gianni Belvedere and Ilona Flint.

Triple Murder Suspect Declared Mentally Incompetent For Trial

Carlo Mercado, 29, is charged in the shooting deaths of three people, including two killed in Mission Valley on Christmas Eve. A court-appointed psychiatrist found that Mercado is not competent to stand trial.

Bryan Stevenson takes on cases to exonerate people wrongfully convicted. "One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country when we treat people unfairly, when we incarcerate them unfairly, when we condemn them unfairly," he says.

One Lawyer's Fight For Young Blacks And 'Just Mercy'

When police pulled a gun on Bryan Stevenson as he was sitting quietly in his car in Atlanta, he knew he had to effect change. His memoir describes his attempts, including freeing men on death row.

A campaign by the American Civil Liberties Union of California features men and women holding signs that read "Let me vote" to help spread the word that many people who have spent time in jail or prison are allowed to vote in California.

San Diego Hip-Hop Artists Teaming Up To Get Out The Vote Among Ex-Offenders

The San Diego ACLU and local hip-hop artists are hosting a show Friday in Barrio Logan to get out the vote among the formerly incarcerated.

Jorge Rojas Lopez led the “Los Palillos” drug gang that was involved in multiple kidnappings and murders in San Diego between 2004 and 2007.

Second Leader Of 'Los Palillos' Gang Gets Consecutive Life Sentences

The "Los Palillos" gang was involved in multiple murders between 2004 and 2007, including two victims whose bodies were dissolved in acid.

Leaders of "Los Palillos" gang, Jorge Rojas Lopez, left, and Juan Francisco Estrada Gonzalez, right, during their murder and kidnapping trial in San Diego.

'Los Palillos' Boss Gets Nine Life Terms For Killings, Kidnappings In San Diego

Los Palillos splintered off from Tijuana's Arellano Felix drug cartel in 2002. It set up operations in San Diego, murdering nine people.

Comer Cottrell, right, confers with adman Jerry Metcalf in 1977.

Comer Cottrell, Creator Of The People's Jheri Curl, Dies At 82

Cottrell died last Friday in Plano, Tex. His do-it-yourself product brought more affordable curly hair to the masses.

Nathan Lane stars as Chauncey Miles in LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER "The Nance."

LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: The Nance Starring Nathan Lane

Airs Friday, October 10, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Joan Biskupic, author of a new book about Justice Sonia Sotomayor, says she was "intrigued by the fact that ... the arc of her life was actually the same trajectory of the rise of Latinos in America."

How Justice Sotomayor Is 'Busting' The Supreme Court's Steady Rhythms

Longtime Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic's new book on Justice Sonia Sotomayor reflects on the nation's first Latina justice.

How Justice Sotomayor Is 'Busting' The Supreme Court's Steady Rhythms

Long time Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic's new book on Justice Sonia Sotomayor reflects on the nation's first Latina justice.

Q&A: Plumbing The Mysteries Of The Teenage Brain

In Age of Opportunity, psychologist Larry Steinberg applies neuroscience to risk-taking, peer influence, the boredom of high school and other adolescent conundrums.

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