TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — An appellate court in Washington state said this week that a man who was sentenced in a gruesome attack resulting in his mother’s death in 2017 will get a new trial because of prosecutorial misconduct. The News Tribune reported that Sebastian Levy-Aldrete was found guilty of second-degree murder in 2018 in the death of his 77-year-old mother Maria Aldrete-Levy. He was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. Levy-Aldrete argued on appeal that he didn’t get a fair trial because of comments made by a prosecutor during closing arguments. The Washington State Court of Appeals agreed Tuesday.
Court grants new trial after prosecutorial misconduct
