Local News in Brief : Killer to Be Extradited
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A man sentenced to death for the murder of a pizza deliveryman in Glendale will be extradited to stand trial for two killings in South Carolina.
Attorney Leon Litwin said the California Supreme Court’s approval of the extradition means Mitchell Sims can be sent to South Carolina immediately. Gov. George Deukmejian already has approved the extradition.
Sims, 28, was sentenced to death for the December, 1985, murder of a Domino’s Pizza deliveryman.
Two Domino’s employees were killed in Hanahan, S.C., a suburb of Charleston, six days before the Glendale slaying. Sims could be sentenced to death again if convicted of those murders.
A witness in the Glendale case said Sims held a grudge against Domino’s from the time he worked as a manager of a company pizza parlor in West Columbia, S.C., and quit over a reduction in bonus payments.
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