A woman who sued Los Angeles County after being arrested and then released in connection with the stabbing death of a woman in a parking garage at a Rolling Hills Estates mall — but was subsequently re- arrested more than five years later — was convicted Thursday of murder.
Jurors deliberated just under a day before finding Cherie Lynnette Townsend, now 47, of first-degree murder for the May 3, 2018, killing of Susan Leeds, 66, of Rancho Palos Verdes.
The seven-woman, five-man panel also found true an allegation that Townsend personally used a knife during the commission of the crime…