Posted on 12/24/2009 10:29:47 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Jurors on Wednesday recommended death for the man they had earlier convicted of murdering two Riverside police officers in 1982.
There was no visible emotion in the courtroom from Jackson Chambers Daniels Jr., now 71. Daniels is confined to a wheelchair, as he was on the day officers Dennis Doty and Phil Trust were shot.
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"Their verdict said that Jackson Daniels -- a career criminal without an ounce of remorse -- that his life is not more valuable than Dennis Doty and Phil Trust's lives," she said outside court.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Roger Luebs set Jan. 28 for sentencing.
Daniels' defense attorneys, Michael Belter and Jay Ritt, said outside court they respected the jury's work as well as the community's loss over the officers' deaths.
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Prosecutors said Daniels killed the officers because of a vendetta over his wounding in a 1980 police shootout after a robbery. It left him a paraplegic.
He was sitting on a gun in his wheelchair when Doty and Trust came to arrest him at a La Sierra home for failure to appear for sentencing on the 1980 crimes.
Daniels pulled the gun out and shot them both. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the crimes by 1984. It started 21 years of appeals.
In 2005, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed his conviction and sentence, saying while it was obvious Daniels shot Doty and Trust, his defense lawyers were inexperienced and ineffective.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2007 declined to hear an appeal from California.
Daniels new trial began Nov. 4. The jury that recommended death for him Wednesday was the same one that convicted him for the murders Dec. 8.
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If his life is no more valuable than those of two good police officers, why will he live for another 35 years under a “death penalty,” when they weren’t shown the same consideration.
Only a bubbleheaded judge could come up with that.
He's 71. Not going to happen.
The Ninth Circus never saw a criminal that wasn’t discriminated against.
It costs $34,000 to keep on thug in jail in CA for one year.
21 years= $740,000
If he goes to death row for a while that’s $90,000 annually.
Too bad the cops didn’t pick him up with guns drawn!
Push him, in his wheelchair, off a pier.
Seems like there is now a wonderful niche opportunity for a new specialty lawyer: Professional Incompetent for these types of perps.
When it is obvious they did it, and can't be acquitted, hire the Professional Incompetent to defend, and hope for release during the appeals process.
Liberal justice! Whatta country!
No point in wasting a good wheelchair.
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