Sandra Hughes was an 8-year-old girl from Los Angeles who was murdered on April 22, 1982. She was killed in the same incident that took the lives of her father, Robert Bloom Sr., and her stepmother, Josephine Bloom.

Robert Maurice Bloom was convicted in 1983 and sentenced to death in 1984. A federal court overturned that conviction and sentence in 1997 because his attorney had not presented evidence of Bloom’s mental impairment. At a 2000 retrial Bloom was convicted of first-degree murder for his father’s death and second-degree murder for Josephine and Sandra; defense counsel had conceded guilt for all three killings against Bloom’s wishes. In 2022 the California Supreme Court overturned Bloom’s second-degree murder convictions for Josephine and Sandra and vacated the special circumstance finding, while leaving the conviction for his father intact, opening the possibility of retrial on the two vacated counts.

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