4/12/2023 0 Comments Mcstay fmail murderOn Jthe jury recommended sentences of life without the possibility of parole for the killing of Josrph McStay and the death penalty in the killing of the Summer, Gianni and Joseph, Jr. On June 10, 2019, the jury had returned guilty verdicts in the killing of Joseph McStay, his wife Summer McStay and the couple’s two sons, four-year-old Gianni and three-year-old Joseph, Jr. But his attorney, Raj Maline, had filed a motion for a new trial based on prosecutorial misconduct in the weeks prior to that hearing and on Friday morning had augmented that filing with another, one that sought a new trial based on ineffectiveness of counsel by Maline’s one-time law partner, James McGee, who had represented Merritt in conjunction with Maline and McGee’s associate, Jacob Guerard, during the nearly six-month long trial that was staged before the jury from January until June of 2019. Merritt’s sentencing was originally scheduled four days previously, for the morning of January 17, Friday of last week. Smith first denied a motion by Merritt’s attorney, filed that morning, calling for the judge to remove himself from the case based on what was alleged to have been his bias in the case. On Tuesday, January 21, more than a year after his trial in the 2010 murders of the McStay family began, Charles, “Chase” Merritt following a series of interminable delays was handed a death sentence, which included being consigned to life without the possibility of parole for the killing of his business partner and three sentences of death for the murders of his business partner’s wife and two children.īefore pronouncing sentence, Judge Michael A.
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