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(NewsNation) — The would-be Hollywood shaper sentenced this week to 146 years successful situation for a bid of rapes and the overdose deaths of 2 women volition appeal, his lawyer says.
David Pearce, 43, learned his destiny Wednesday pursuing a assemblage condemnation successful February connected first-degree execution and rape charges. Prosecutors accidental Pearce gave fentanyl-laced drugs to Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola and Christy Giles aft gathering the women astatine a November 2021 enactment and bringing them to his Beverly Hills apartment.
When the women overdosed, authorities say, helium efficaciously dumped them astatine abstracted hospitals. Giles, 24, was dormant connected arrival, portion 26-year-old Cabrales-Arzola died 11 days later.
Pearce was besides convicted of 7 intersexual assaults that occurred from 2007 to 2021.
Criminal defence lawyer Ronda Dixon, who is representing Pearce, said she’ll entreaty the lawsuit based connected respective factors, including atrocious proposal her lawsuit got from different members of his ineligible team.
“Unfortunately, helium didn’t get the assistance helium needed until it was excessively late,” Dixon told “Banfield” connected Thursday.
She challenges the communicative that Pearce “dumped” the 2 women who overdosed, arguing that surveillance video shows her lawsuit did not abruptly permission the hospitals. As to wherefore Pearce utilized a conveyance that did not person licence plates, the lawyer did not situation the atrocious optics.
“He astir apt didn’t enactment successful their death, but helium panicked erstwhile they died and beauteous overmuch didn’t cognize what to do,” Dixon said.
An accused accessory successful the execution case, 46-year-old Brant Osborn, is expected to beryllium retried aft a assemblage could not scope a verdict.
