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FILE - In this Sept. 1979 file photo showing Bobby Joe Maxwell who was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in a series of slayings known as the "Skid Row" stabbings. A federal appeals court tossed out the conviction of Maxwell, the alleged Skid Row Stabber suspected of killing 10 transients in downtown Los Angeles. The court rules the conviction was based on the false testimony of an 'infamous" jail house snitch and orders a new trial. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)