Convicted Fresno murderer says female jurors were unfair

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A heated back-and-forth unfolded astatine the Fresno County Courthouse Thursday arsenic a convicted murderer raised his manus to code the justice and spouted falsehoods astir his trial.

"Because you each enactment together, you're supporting each other, you're not giving maine my rights due to the fact that I don't person (a) backstage attorney," Harmanpreet Singh said.

The antheral was successful tribunal to larn his condemnation for a 2022 Clovis shooting. Surveillance cameras captured the transgression arsenic investigators accidental Singh changeable and killed his ex-girlfriend, Gurpreet Marahar.

Prosecutors accidental it was a lawsuit of home violence, and a region assemblage convicted Singh of execution and battle aft 8 days of proceedings successful June. But Singh calls it rigged due to the fact that determination were women connected the jury.

"My assemblage proceedings was not fair," helium said. "A batch of women, obviously, they (saw) my video crime. They don't cognize my situation," helium said.

Singh went connected for respective minutes. Instead of apologizing oregon asking for a lighter sentence, helium criticized his pistillate nationalist defender. The comments seemed to onslaught a nervus with the judge.

"Unless you person thing you privation to archer maine astir this case, possibly adjacent the anticipation of immoderate remorse, different than that, you tin person a seat, sir," Judge Alvin Harrell III said.

"Your honor, the assemblage is not random people," Singh said. "They don't cognize astir laws."

"Sir, astatine this point, I'm going to person you beryllium down," the justice said.

The tense speech happened conscionable feet distant from the victim's family. In a missive to the tribunal work by the prosecutor, they expressed the symptom they inactive consciousness and asked the tribunal for the maximum sentence.

"My sister's unbearable nonaccomplishment has traumatized each of america for the remainder of our lives," Fresno County Chief Deputy District Attorney Deborah Miller work connected behalf of the family. "Her decease was not owed to a earthy cause, but due to the fact that she was murdered. And that makes it adjacent harder to accept."

The justice yet sentenced Singh to 50 years to beingness successful situation and apologized to the victim's household for their loss.

If you are the unfortunate of home abuse, oregon you cognize idiosyncratic who is, determination is assistance disposable 24/7. In Fresno County, telephone the Marjaree Mason Center astatine (559) 233-4357. In each different locations, telephone the National Domestic Violence Hotline astatine (800) 799-7233.

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