A federal appeals court has overturned the arson convictions of a Caltech grad student accused of torching and vandalizing 125 SUVs, ruling the trial judge wrongly barred evidence of the defendant’s Asperger’s syndrome. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said William Cottrell, once a promising physics student,…
Sep 11, 2009 11:49 AM CDT