Sentencing delayed for ninth time for man convicted of 2013 murder

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Justice for Miriam Corona's household has been moving astatine a snail's pace.

There is inactive nary situation condemnation for the antheral convicted of her execution astir 2 years aft a assemblage handed down its verdict and implicit 11 years since her death.

Corona was dormant erstwhile prosecutors accidental she was changeable successful the backmost of her caput successful 2013. They charged her boyfriend, Daniel Gomez Cervantes, with murder.

At trial, Cervantes' attorneys said helium did not propulsion the trigger.

"(There's a) tenable anticipation that Ms. Corona committed suicide," defence lawyer Jack Revvill told the assemblage successful June 2022.

The lawsuit has been dilatory from the start. It did not spell to proceedings for 9 years. And successful the astir 2 years since the blameworthy verdict, Cervantes has been successful tribunal astatine slightest 9 times for sentencing.

Nearly each time, his defence attorneys person pushed the day back. They did it again connected Wednesday.

"I americium asking for a month," defence lawyer Erin Ormonde said. "It's clip to determine this lawsuit 1 mode oregon the other," Judge Arlan Harrell said later.

The latest hold comes arsenic lawyer Ormonde tries to unafraid much nationalist funding. She has told the tribunal she is trying to prosecute 2 experts, who person grounds that could person changed the jury's verdict.

"The backing contented for the experts is simply a law issue," Ormonde said.

By hiring experts and outlining what they volition accidental successful an affidavit, Ormonde appears to beryllium doing the legwork connected a question for a caller trial. She wants a caller assemblage to perceive caller evidence.

Action News Legal Analyst Tony Capozzi says Ormonde has an uphill battle.

"It's a steep elevation to ascent connected a question for a caller trial, particularly present that you're trying to travel successful with caller grounds that possibly should've been presented astatine the clip of trial," Capozzi said. "It's going to beryllium precise difficult."

If the defence tin unafraid backing for adept testimony, the question for a caller proceedings would beryllium successful the judge's hands. If the defence cannot get funds, the justice could condemnation Daniel Gomez Cervantes, and past helium could record an appeal.

Everybody volition beryllium backmost successful tribunal connected May 2.

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