Retrial due in slaying of ex-Raider's daughter

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(03-29) 14:46 PDT SAN MATEO -- San Mateo County will retry the admitted killer of former football star Fred Biletnikoff's daughter for murder after losing a U.S. Supreme Court appeal over the removal of a juror at his first trial, a prosecutor said Monday.

The high court denied review Monday of a prosecution appeal of a July 2009 ruling that overturned Mohammed Haroun Ali's murder conviction for strangling Tracey Biletnikoff in 1999.

Biletnikoff, whose father was a Hall of Fame receiver for the Oakland Raiders, met Ali in 1997 at Project 90, a San Mateo drug and alcohol rehabilitation program where both were being treated. They started dating a year later while recovering from their addictions and helping younger patients.

According to trial testimony, Biletnikoff, 20, found out in February 1999 that Ali had relapsed into drug use and tried to get him back into treatment. They argued at the Project 90 office, where he was working, and he strangled her there with his hands and a T-shirt.

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[Grassy Knoll]

1. Unleash the nation on this asshole.........