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“Mr. DeAngelo is acknowledging his guilt for the heinous crimes he has committed,” Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton said at the court hearing, NPR reports. “There is really nothing ...

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A federal judge said that the county failed to create a case plan for Edison Gatlin that complied with the Child Welfare Act.