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NOT A GOOD READ: It took the state three years just to find a lawyer willing to handle the complex appeal for Kraft, convicted in 1989 of 16 Orange County murders. Veteran appellate specialist Richard C. Power of Shingle Springs near Sacramento has agreed to take it on--which means working with 40,000 pages of transcript. “I’ll be into next year just reading this thing,” he says. . . . That may not be his biggest problem. He admits that Kraft doesn’t like him, and already wants to get rid of him.

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