JAILED PAIR DENY KILLING MOTHER OF 2 : DALLY, HAUN ARRAIGNED.Byline: Michael Coit Daily News Staff Writer Michael Dally and Diana Haun pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit those crimes in the killing of Dally's wife, whose body was found in a barranca bar·ran·ca also bar·ran·co n. pl. bar·ran·cas also bar·ran·cos Southwestern U.S. 1. A deep ravine or gorge. 2. A bluff. nearly a month after she was reported missing. The pair appeared for arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted together in Ventura Superior Court. Wearing the county jail's blue outfits, they sat at the defense table in a Hall of Justice fourth-floor courtroom separated by their attorney teams. Dally, 36, of Ventura, indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. by the grand jury in November three months after Haun's initial indictment, faces a Feb. 3 trial date. Haun, 35, of Port Hueneme Port Hueneme (wī'nē`mē), city (1990 pop. 20,319), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; founded 1870, inc. 1948. It has an artificial deep-sea harbor and is the site of a huge naval construction-battalion (Seabee) center. , re-indicted with Dally, faces a Jan. 13 trial date. Judge Frederic Jones
Frederic Jones (1832 – 8 September 1890) was a New Zealand politician, who represented the Heathcote electorate in the 9th and 10th parliaments from 1887 to 1890, when he died. on Wednesday set a Dec. 18 hearing for arguments on a motion by Ventura County prosecutors to consolidate the cases for a single trial. Prosecutors charge that the pair conspired to kidnap and murder Sherri Dally and that Haun kidnapped Dally from a 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 May 6 and murdered her. Dally and Haun are eligible for the death penalty because prosecutors have charged them with the special circumstances special circumstances n. in criminal cases, particularly homicides, actions of the accused or the situation under which the crime was committed for which state statutes allow or require imposition of a more severe punishment. of lying in wait to commit murder and murder for financial gain. Prosecutors said they have not decided whether to seek the death penalty. Sherri Dally was reported missing May 6 after shopping at a Target store in Ventura. She was last seen by witnesses who told Ventura police Dally was walking to her van outside the store when a car pulled behind and blocked Dally's vehicle. The female driver of the car approached Dally, the two women talked, and Dally then entered a rear passenger door of the car. Search parties organized by community members found the 35-year-old victim's skeletal remains June 1 in a barranca along Canada Larga Road north of Ventura. The county medical examiner A public official charged with investigating all sudden, suspicious, unexplained, or unnatural deaths within the area of his or her appointed jurisdiction. A medical examiner differs from a Coroner in that a medical examiner is a physician. , who identified Dally using dental records, determined that she had been beaten or stabbed to death. Sherri Dally ran a day-care center out of the couple's Ventura home. They were parents of two small children. Haun and Michael Dally were co-workers at a Vons supermarket in Oxnard. Ventura police arrested Haun in May, but she was not charged and was released from the county jail. Haun was arrested again Aug. 1 and has remained in custody at the county jail. Dally was arrested by Ventura police Nov. 15 after the grand jury indicted him. Haun was re-indicted because the grand jury added the special circumstance of committing murder for financial gain. |
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