Jurisprudence
From Staff and Wire Reports
A psychiatric study was ordered to determine if a teen-ager who admitted murdering a Fresno State football star and a woman should serve time in adult prison. Arthur Eric Phelps, 17, had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of Melvin Johnson and first-degree murder of Lisa Kelley, who were killed last Jan. 2.
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