PROMOTION: An unprecedented seven death penalty cases...

PROMOTION: An unprecedented seven death penalty cases have gone to Orange County juries so far this year, with two back-to-back death verdicts won recently by Deputy Dist. Atty. Charles J. Middleton, above. . . . He’s been promoted to head the county’s sexual assault and child abuse unit but says he’ll miss the courtroom once his last murder case is tried this fall. His goal in death penalty cases is a guilty verdict--then the jury decides the punishment. “I don’t look at death as the ultimate victory,” he says.