San Diego Escorts: Jury sentences Rices to death in liquor store murders

June 24, 2009 at 9:24 pm | In San Diego escorts | No Comments

… The jury did the right thing. He’s a very dangerous person. He deserves the death penalty,” McAllister said.
The prosecutor earlier told the jury that Rices’ past criminal history justified the death penalty in this case. In addition to the 2006 murders, he said Rices has been convicted in a robbery and a carjacking in 1999, two bank robberies in July 2006, and the slashing of a jail guard’s face and torso in August 2008.
Rices’ defense attorney, Mark Chambers, said he was disappointed with the panel’s decision and didn’t think a death penalty was appropriate.
Chambers said a more fitting punishment would have been life in prison without the possibility of parole.
During the trial, Chambers told the jury that Rices’ mother was a drug-addicted prostitute who taught him to steal when he was a toddler on the streets of Los Angeles.

See the full article from “San Diego Union Tribune”

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