Fortunately, California Civil Code section 2225 forbids convicted felons from reaping such profits. Our state\’s law is based on New York\’s \”Son of Sam\” law, enacted to prevent David Berkowitz, a social miscreant, from selling a book and movie rights about his 1977 New York City murder spree.
Last week marked the sixth yahrzeit of Yitzhak Weinstock, a young American-Israeli who was murdered in a Palestinian Arab terrorist attack near Jerusalem. Hundreds of Jews have been murdered by Arab terrorists in Israel in the six years since the Oslo accords were signed, so perhaps it is no surprise that Yitzhak\’s name is not familiar to most Jews in Southern California.
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