Pittsburg: Convicted cop murderer loses bid for freedom

PITTSBURG — A judge denied a Pittsburg man’s request to transfer his murder case from adult to juvenile court, which would have meant release from prison for one of the two men convicted of murdering police officer Larry Lasater in 2005.

Andrew Moffett, 38, was days away from his 18th birthday when he and co-defendant Alexander Rashad Hamilton, 38, planned and carried out a robbery that resulted in Hamilton shooting Lasater in the neck. Both were convicted of murder, but in 2020 Moffett...