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VISALIA, Calif. (KGPE) - The household of Exeter Police Officer Daniel Green is pleading with a South Valley justice to springiness his ex-wife the maximum condemnation for his murder.
38-year-old Erika Sandoval volition beryllium sentenced successful Porterville astatine 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning.
Last month, a assemblage recovered her blameworthy of 1st grade execution for Green's death.
"I wouldn't accidental we are nervous," said Matthew Green, Daniel's identical duplicate brother. "But we are anxious to perceive what the tribunal says. Closing that section and moving onto the next."
Feb. 6, 2015, is simply a time siblings Matthew Green and Misty Gray volition ne'er forget.
"The shock," said Misty erstwhile Matthew Green called her that day. "Matt couldn't truly talk. I knew, I knew thing had happened, and I said, 'Please conscionable archer maine Daniel is okay', and helium said, 'I can't.'"
10 years ago, Green's ex-wife Erika Sandoval broke into Green's Goshen home, and changeable the Exeter serviceman with his ain weapon erstwhile helium returned location from the gym.
"I deliberation Erika should get the maximum sentence, I deliberation she is dangerous," said Matthew Green erstwhile asked what helium would accidental successful his interaction connection connected Thursday. "I deliberation she is inactive dangerous. I deliberation she is much unsafe contiguous than she was 10 years ago."
The roadworthy to closure has been a agelong travel for the Green family.
After years of silence, the siblings are speaking retired erstwhile again, exclusively to CBS47 Anchor Mederios Babb.
"You treated our household precise fair, and that is wherefore we did this, due to the fact that of you," said Misty Gray.
"We admit reporting connected the facts," said Matthew Green. "And not conscionable showing up erstwhile she was connected the basal to get a definite narrative, but making an effort to bash what reporting should be, which is taking an nonsubjective look astatine the facts and reporting connected them. We admit that during some trials, that is what you and your presumption did."
In 2019, the lawsuit was declared a mistrial owed to a hung jury.
"I was broken, and it took a agelong clip for maine to beryllium okay," said Gray.
This clip around, the assemblage convicted Sandoval of 1st grade murder, but not of the peculiar condition of lying successful wait, which is punishable by the decease penalty.
The defence shifted the absorption of astir of the proceedings from Sandoval's actions to Green and the toxic and tumultuous narration betwixt the couple.
"They spent clip implicit and implicit sidesplitting his representation implicit and implicit again," said Matthew Green.
Without the peculiar circumstance, Sandoval faces 50 years to beingness down bars.
"If she were to get out, I don't deliberation our household would beryllium safe," said Gray.
No substance the sentence, successful 12 years, Sandoval volition beryllium eligible for parole owed to California Law.
"As unfortunate arsenic it is, we volition woody with the parole hearings arsenic they come," said Green.
"We volition beryllium there. We volition combat each clip she goes to parole, we volition fight," said Gray.
Sandoval's attorneys accidental this lawsuit should ne'er person been a decease punishment case, and program to record a announcement of entreaty erstwhile Sandoval is sentenced.
