DUBLIN — When David Misch goes on trial for allegedly killing 9-year-old Michaela Garecht in 1988, he’ll be facing a potential sentence of life without parole once again.

Alameda County prosecutors have re-filed their murder case against Misch with a special circumstance alleging he murdered Michaela during the commission of a kidnapping. The move undoes a previous decision made under ex-District Attorney Pamela Price, who largely opposed sentencing enhancements that carried life without parole.

For 64-year-old Misch, the effects of this decision are largely symbolic.

He has been convicted of three murders, all in the 1980s, all seemingly involving a sexual motive. His record is full of sex crimes, violence, and a lack of remorse, most recently demonstrated last January when he sang “99

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