CONEJO VALLEY BRIEFLY\Slaying accomplice gets 5-month term.Byline: Daily News VENTURA - A Camarillo teen-ager who pleaded guilty to being an accessory accessory, in criminal law, a person who, though not present at the commission of a crime, becomes a participator in the crime either before or after the fact of commission. to the slaying of a Moorpark man and other crimes was sentenced Wednesday to five months in Juvenile Hall. The youth, 17, admitted earlier this month to being an accessory in a crime spree in which shots were fired at a Camarillo home, a youth was robbed in front of the Somis Market and Jesus Manjarrez was killed. The admitted accomplice accomplice: see accessory. faced a maximum sentence of four years in the California Youth Authority, but a Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial judge instead assigned as·sign tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs 1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection. 2. him to Juvenile Hall and placed him on probation. Prosecutors charged the youth as the fourth member of a Camarillo gang that carried out the Dec. 3 crime spree that ended with the shooting of Manjarrez at a Moorpark intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. . Prosecutors, however, dropped an armed-robbery charge against the youth after the robbery victim told authorities the youth was not involved. The youth admitted to being an accessory who was along during the crime spree. |
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