The judge’s ruling, at the request of California Attorney General Rob Bonta, gives the Alameda County prosecutor’s office 60 days to retry 71-year-old Curtis Lee Ervin or let him go free.
Bonta conceded the Alameda prosecutors in the Ervin case illegally excluded Black jurors.
Alameda County now must make a decision by September 30.
Last month, she announced plans for the resentencing of Dykes and one other death row inmate for Batson violations.
Those notes showed a bias against potential Jewish and Black jurors, according to the DA’s office.
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