LOS ANGELES—A state appellate court panel Dec. 31 rejected a re-sentencing bid by one of two men convicted of murdering two University of Southern California (USC) graduate students from China during a robbery more than a decade ago.
A three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal upheld a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge’s May 2023 decision in the case of Javier Bolden, who is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for the April 11, 2012, attack on Ying Wu and Ming Qu.
