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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KGPE) - The household of Exeter Police Officer Daniel Green is reacting to the blameworthy verdict of 38-year-old Erika Sandoval.
The southbound vale assemblage recovered Sandoval blameworthy of 1st degree execution for sidesplitting her ex-husband 10 years ago.
Green's household thanked jurors, instrumentality enforcement, the Tulare District Attorney's Office, and their household and friends for the enactment implicit the past decade.
“We, the jury, find the suspect blameworthy of execution successful the archetypal degree,” work the tribunal Clerk.
Sandoval held her attorney's manus arsenic the clerk work the verdict of blameworthy of 1st grade murder, without the peculiar condition of lying successful wait, and with the firearm enhancement.
YourCentralValley.com caught up with 1 of the jurors, who did not privation to beryllium identified. It's an exclusive interrogation detailing however the jurors decided aft 3 days of deliberation.
“It was honestly precise hard due to the fact that determination was truthful overmuch to look into determination was truthful overmuch to spell implicit and review, but I deliberation what really closed it for america was, we went backmost done her confessions and really looking astatine it and being capable intelligibly perceive it opposed to proceeding it successful the tribunal country made a difference," said the juror.
Sandoval testified that backmost successful 2015, she broke into Green’s Goshen home, grabbed 2 of his guns, and hid successful a closet.
When the Exeter bull returned home, she came retired and changeable him respective times successful the bathroom.
Green’s household broke down successful tears erstwhile they heard the verdict, and gave YourCentralValley.com an exclusive statement.
10 years is simply a agelong time, it feels similar definite parts of our beingness person been connected hold. It feels similar we tin determination guardant successful galore ways.
Green's familySandoval’s sentencing is scheduled for June 5.
Prosecutor David Alavezos was seeking the decease penalty, which is disconnected the table, since the jurors did not find her blameworthy of the peculiar condition "lying successful wait.”
"For the astir part, we are precise blessed with the verdict, peculiarly due to the fact that we person ever known this was not a decease punishment case, we person sought tirelessly to marque definite that portion was known. And I deliberation that was heard large and wide today," said Sandoval's Public Defender Megan Casebeer.
With the 1st grade execution verdict and an enhancement firearm charge, Sandoval faces 50 years to beingness down bars.
That doesn’t mean she volition service the full time.
The California Legislature passed a instrumentality successful 2018, allowing for a parole proceeding if the idiosyncratic served 20 years, is 50 years oregon older, and didn’t person a anterior onslaught offense.
“The household has to spell to a parole proceeding successful astir 12 years, and I don’t similar that," said Alavezos.
Sandoval's attorneys bash program to record a announcement of entreaty erstwhile Sandoval is sentenced.
