HOMELESS WOMAN PLEADS NO CONTEST STABBING OF FELLOW TRANSIENT EARNS HER FOUR-YEAR TERM.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A female transient was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. for stabbing to death another homeless person An individual who lacks housing, including one whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility that provides temporary living accommodations; an individual who is a resident in transitional housing; or an individual who has as a primary residence a . Marisa Melrose, 45, was charged in the December slaying of 42-year-old Myron Dorsey, who was found stabbed in a camper van in a Valley Central shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into parking lot. ``It was settled that way based on the nature of the case and the evidence in the case, and the fact that nobody was present in the motor home when the actual incident occurred other than her and the victim,'' Deputy District Attorney Steve Heller Steve Heller may refer to:
Melrose entered her plea Thursday after prosecutors agreed to dismiss a murder charge. Heller said Melrose agreed to not receive any credit for the time she has already served in custody since her arrest Dec. 14, which amounts to about 10 months. ``The disposition was four years state prison, and she waived 10 months back time, so she's going to end up doing pretty close to five years,'' Heller said. Dorsey was found the night of Dec. 14 after an intoxicated in·tox·i·cate v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. Melrose approached a deputy patrolling the shopping center and told him a man in the van had fallen on a knife. ``She said the victim fell on a knife when she was driving the motor home,'' Heller said. ``The actual evidence shows he didn't fall, based on the angle and depth of the entry wound.'' Melrose's attorney could not be reached for comment. Melrose was convicted of burglary in 2001 in an Antelope Valley case and was sentenced to 120 days in jail. The following year, in another Antelope Valley case, she pleaded no contest to felony petty theft Felony petty theft is the colloquial term for a statute in the California Penal Code (Section 666) that makes it possible for a person who commits the crime of petty theft to be charged with a felony rather than a misdemeanor if the accused had previously been convicted of a with a prior offense and was sentenced to two years in prison, but that sentence was suspended, officials said. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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