No retrial for McStay family killer Charles Merritt, judge rules at sentencing

Smith appeared to be taken aback that at 9:15 a.m., Merritt’s attorney, Rajan Maline, filed the motion for a new trial that included a 91-page brief on the cellphone tower evidence that prosecutors say placed Merritt near the gravesites in the San Bernardino County desert north of Victorville in the days after the McStays vanished on Feb. 4, ...