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Pittsburg: Convicted cop murderer loses bid for freedom

Judge Barbara Hinton cited evidence of deliberate planning and risk awareness in denying Andrew Moffett’s transfer request despite recent juvenile justice law changes.

Summary by The Mercury News
PITTSBURG — A judge denied a Pittsburg man’s request to transfer his murder case from adult to juvenile court, which would have meant release from prison for one of the two men convicted of murdering police officer Larry Lasater in 2005. Andrew Moffett, 38, was days away from his 18th birthday when he and co-defendant Alexander Rashad Hamilton, 38, planned and carried out a robbery that resulted in Hamilton shooting Lasater in the neck. Both wer…

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The Mercury news broke the news in San Jose, United States on Saturday, January 17, 2026.
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