RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Los Angeles County District Attorney issues official statement on the death sentence that was handed out on the Cerritos murder case of Ernestine and Lamar Matthews

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Los Angeles County District Attorney issues official statement on the death sentence that was handed out on the Cerritos murder case of Ernestine and Lamar Matthews

I wanted to post this "official" statement from the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office regarding the death sentence that was issued on Friday in the murder case of Cerritos resident's Ernestine and Lamar Matthews that took place here in 2006.
Randy

BREAKING NEWS:

NORWALK -- A Norwalk judge sentenced a 34-year-old Carson man to death today for stabbing an elderly couple to death during a robbery in their Cerritos home nearly six years ago.

Before sentencing, Norwalk Superior Court Judge Dewey L. Falcone first denied a defense motion to reduce the jury’s recommendation of death for Anthony Deondrea Cain to life in prison without the possibility of parole, said Deputy District Attorney June Chung. She prosecuted the case with DDA Islam Ramadan.

The jury returned the death verdict in November. The same jury earlier convicted Cain, who was related to the couple through marriage, of first-degree murder of Ernestine and Lamar Matthews in the couple’s home the 12900 block of Oak Crest Street. The jury also found true the special circumstances of murder during a robbery and multiple murders.

The couple, both 75, had planned to travel on a fund-raising trip to an Indian casino near San Diego on the Feb. 11 morning in 2004 when their bodies were discovered. Ernestine Matthews, a former teacher in the Compton Unified School District, and her husband, a retired parole officer, also were preparing to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary later that year.

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