Conviction overturned in 2006 gang shooting outside Pasadena apartment

Jarmon Sanford, sentenced to 89 years to life in prison for attempted murder in a 2006 Pasadena gang shooting, might be home for Christmas.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan has overturned one of two attempted murder convictions against Sanford because of a flaw in the prosecution’s jury instruction.

Sanford, who was 19 at the time of his conviction in 2008, is scheduled to be resentenced Nov. 20. His lawyers hope he will be sentenced to time served on the remaining attempted murder conviction...