Salvi’s Death Voids Murder Convictions
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The judge who sentenced John C. Salvi III to life in prison for murdering two abortion clinic workers has voided his convictions because he died before his appeal could be heard. Salvi, 24, died of an apparent suicide in his prison cell in November. Lee Ann Nichols, 38, and Shannon Lowney, 25, were killed and five others wounded by Salvi in the Dec. 30, 1994, attacks at two Brookline, Mass., clinics. Salvi was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year by Judge Barbara Dortch-Okara.