An Orange County Superior Court judge has denied a petition to overturn a conviction of a defendant in the so-called Honor Roll Murder case from 1992 based on a new law.
Kirn Young Kim was convicted in July 1994 of murder in the beating death of 17-year-old Stuart Tay on New Year’s Eve 1992 in Buena Park. Kim was the purported lookout for the killing and has since been paroled.
Tay became the target of five teens who thought he intended to turn them in for a planned heist of computer equipment. The killing made headlines as the defendants were high school scholars and the film “Better Luck Tomorrow” was loosely based on the case…