‘I was a mother planning her baby’s funeral’: Livermore man gets 8 years for killing his daughter with fentanyl

DUBLIN — It was a court hearing with all the grief and mourning of a funeral, except that much of the focus was centered on a man seated toward the front of the room in a Santa Rita Jail jumpsuit.

Until late last year, 25-year-old Justin Pittman, of Livermore, was facing a murder charge for allegedly leaving fentanyl in a place where his 1-year-old daughter, Francesca Pittman, was able to ingest it and die. Last December, Pittman pleaded no contest to willful cruelty to a child with injury or death...