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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KGPE) - Tulare County Judge Juliet Boccone sentenced 38-year-old Erika Sandoval to 50 years to beingness for 1st grade execution and firearms enhancements connected Thursday.
Sandoval killed her ex-husband and Exeter Police Officer Daniel Green successful 2015, aft breaking into his Goshen home.
Green's household work statements to Judge Boccone that described the fearfulness they person implicit the anticipation of Sandoval getting retired 1 day.
"I judge she is each overmuch arsenic dangerous, much unsafe contiguous than she was then," said Daniel Green's identical twin, Matthew Green.
It was hard for Sandoval to look astatine Daniel's twin, owed to the resemblance to her ex-husband, whom she admitted to sidesplitting successful his Goshen location successful 2015.
The eerie show brought the courtroom to a little soundlessness arsenic Sandoval glanced astatine Matthew.
Sandoval struggled not lone to look astatine Matthew but besides astatine JoAnna Green. The 2 adopted Sandoval and Daniel's son.
He is 12 years aged now, but was lone 2 years aged astatine the clip of Daniel's death.
"From a precise young age, helium has carried the unbearable load of knowing the idiosyncratic who should person protected him the astir successful this world, his mother," said JoAnna. "Took his life. He has wrestled with questions that nary kid should ever person to ask. When helium was lone 5 years old, helium looked up astatine maine and said, 'If she loved me, wherefore would she execution my father?'”
It’s a load the kid volition proceed to carry, with his dada dormant and his parent sentenced to prison.
"The word of 25 years to life, positive an further and consecutive 25 years to life," said Judge Juliet Boccone.
While this section of the lawsuit is coming to a close, it is not the extremity yet.
“It’s not the last time that is the astir unfortunate portion astir it," said Prosecuting Attorney David Alavezos.
A assemblage did not find Sandoval blameworthy of the peculiar condition of lying successful wait, which is eligible for the decease penalty.
Even though California prisoners are not being executed, it would person guaranteed Sandoval stayed down bars for life.
Instead, with the existent conviction, she volition beryllium eligible for parole successful 2037.
That is due to the fact that of a California instrumentality passed successful 2018.
If the inmate does not person a anterior onslaught and has served 20 years, they volition beryllium eligible for a proceeding erstwhile they crook 50 years old.
“I consciousness similar it was a gift," said Alavezos. "I deliberation our strategy is the champion strategy you tin have, and I respect the jury, but the suspect confessed to a textbook lying successful wait.”
Sandoval's Public Defenders and household would not interrogation connected camera. Her attorneys person 60 days to record a announcement of entreaty and said they program connected filing.
