LOS ANGELES -- March 2003 should have been a good month for Colton Simpson. He had hobnobbed with rap stars in New York. A book deal was in the offing. After almost three decades in and out of ...

Dival Magwood walked to the witness stand, his metal shackles clanking with each shortened step. He wore orange prison scrubs with long white sleeves underneath. The judge had sent the jury on a break ...