Sid Landau (Police photo) |
SANTA ANA -- A notorious convicted child molester, who became the public face of Megan's Law in the 1990s, is making another bid for freedom.
Sid Landau, 70, has filed a petition for another trial. It would be the fourth such trial for Landau in two years.
A judge will decide this month whether to grant the petition.
Landau has been held since 2000 under a law that allows authorities to keep some sex offenders in custody after prison.
At his last trial in 2008, a jury decided to keep him at Coalinga State Hospital.
Landau was convicted of molesting two boys in the 1980s.
He then became one of California's most notorious pedophiles in the 1990s when police enforcing Megan's Law for the first time passed out fliers identifying him as a sex offender.
Sid Landau, 70, has filed a petition for another trial. It would be the fourth such trial for Landau in two years.
A judge will decide this month whether to grant the petition.
Landau has been held since 2000 under a law that allows authorities to keep some sex offenders in custody after prison.
At his last trial in 2008, a jury decided to keep him at Coalinga State Hospital.
Landau was convicted of molesting two boys in the 1980s.
He then became one of California's most notorious pedophiles in the 1990s when police enforcing Megan's Law for the first time passed out fliers identifying him as a sex offender.
