3 men receive 15 years to life for killing registered sex offender in Redondo Beach
Three men were sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after pleading no contest this week to killing a registered sex offender during a home-invasion robbery in his Redondo Beach apartment in 2017, authorities said.
Whether Marshall’s past played a role in his death was unclear. He was arrested in 2009 after a man told police Marshall drugged and sexually assaulted him in Marshall’s shower.
Marshall took a plea deal in 2012, was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender.
According to the criminal complaint, the four men met in Torrance and drove to a Home Depot in Torrance, purchasing pliers and bolt cutters, before driving to Marshall’s apartment in the 300 block of North Catalina Avenue. Marshall owned and managed the building.
Cervantes and the Sawyer brothers entered the building and surprised Marshall as he stepped out of the shower, the complaint said.
Cervantes strangled Marshall with his hands and the three men tortured him with the pliers and bolt cutters before killing him, the complaint said.
Comment on the petition to pardon the killers!
https://www.change.org/p/california-state-senate-please-support-the-pardon-of-the-4-killers-of-john-haig-marshall
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Yeah, petition to pardon the killers. That’s not going to fly.
To pardon them would be a statement to all people that it is permissible you can kill someone who committed a sex offense, and then it would be all out vigilantism across the US.
Serve your time in prison first and then get released for the public to legally kill you? That’s not going to happen.
This may not be a registry issue. Local police had already publicized what he’d been suspected of:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/police-say-redondo-beach-man-did-the-unspeakable/2098957/%3famp
This is outrageous!
This was premeditated murder with elements of torture.
And they will be eligible for parole in 15 years????
Certainly, they should be facing lethal injection or life without parole.
This is outrageous!
How were they not charged with premeditated murder and given the death penalty? They clearly planned this murder. Unbelievable.
It was a plea deal, not a trial. In nearly all criminal cases, a plea deal will render a lessor punishment than whatever the max may be. So, they go rewarded for not fighting their cases. On the other hand, a defendant who exercises his/her constitutional rights to a jury trial and makes judges and prosecutors work will surely get a heavier sentence in nearly all cases.
We all know how plea agreements work. We also all know that in cases where something was premeditated, prosecutors can deny offering pleas and take it to trial to get the higher sentence.
So why did they bother offering a plea? Because the victim was a registered sex offender, that’s why.
You know you’re on the bottom of the social class system when people support your murderers and not you. If our justice system sanctions continued humiliation and oppression, and continues to turn a blind eye to extrajudicial torture and murder, a class war is sure to follow.
If the petition goes through or the court departs from recommended sentence in any significant way, they would inadvertently be sanctioning any type of vigilantism, thus decriminalization of it.