Man sentenced to life in prison for deadly robbery in Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A justice rejected immoderate imaginable alleviation for a convicted Fresno murderer connected Thursday.

"I can't deliberation of a stronger acceptable of facts that found that Mr. Guido would beryllium a information to the assemblage if released due to the fact that helium carries a weapon oregon limb each clip helium commits a crime, arsenic helium did here," Fresno County Superior Court Judge Jonathan Conklin said.

Raymond Guido sat with his caput up, looking astatine Conklin, who imposed the maximum sentence.

"For a word of life, without - without the anticipation of parole," Conklin said.

The justice past went adjacent further and sentenced Guido to different 25 years to beingness positive 4 years successful authorities prison.

Guido's lengthy situation condemnation comes much than a twelvemonth aft Luis Castillo mislaid his beingness successful what the justice called a "cold" and "callous" murder.

"Just idiosyncratic who was taking a walk. And Mr. Guido approached him and dropped him," Conklin said.

The shooting happened astatine an flat analyzable adjacent Thomas and Jackson Avenues successful East Central Fresno successful December 2022.

At the scene, constabulary officers recovered the 40-year-old Castillo with aggregate gunshot wounds.

He had been successful Fresno for little than 3 months. He was present to enactment and nonstop enactment backmost to his woman and kids successful Mexico.

Prosecutors accidental Guido robbed Castillo earlier shooting him, and the District Attorney's bureau charged the present 32-year-old Guido with execution and second-degree robbery.

Guido pleaded not guilty, and his defence argued determination wasn't capable grounds to convict him. However, a assemblage disagreed and recovered Guido blameworthy successful November.

It wasn't the archetypal clip he's been successful occupation with a weapon.

"Each of Mr. Guido's anterior transgression offenses progressive the usage of a deadly weapon. Brass knuckles, a concealed firearm, a concealed dirk oregon dagger connected 2 counts," Conklin said.

He kept going with that database of weapons that Guido's had. And Conklin besides said that adjacent if authorities laws alteration down the road, helium would not spell backmost and trim Guido's beingness sentence.

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