TEEN PLEADS NO CONTEST IN ARROYO GRANDE RITUAL KILLING.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A teen-ager charged in the satanic ritual killing Noun 1. ritual killing - the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity sacrifice animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement of a 15-year-old girl faces 26 years to life in prison after pleading no contest to first-degree murder with a knife. Joseph Fiorella, 16, entered the plea Wednesday in Superior Court, giving up his right to a trial. Fiorella, who turns 17 in June, will probably not come up for his first parole hearing for 20 years, said his lawyer, David Hurst. Fiorella was one of three teens charged with murder in the rape, torture and stabbing stab v. stabbed, stab·bing, stabs v.tr. 1. To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon. 2. To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something. 3. of Elyse Pahler Elyse Marie Pahler was a murder victim whose parents attempted to sue the American thrash metal band Slayer claiming that their music contributed to their daughter's death. on July 22, 1995. ``It's hard when you're 16 years old to know you're going to be in prison . . . more time than you've been on the planet,'' Hurst said. ``I've spent enough time with him to know he feels confident and he feels he's doing the right thing.'' Fiorella will be sentenced March 7, Hurst said. Two other defendants, Jacob Delashmutt, 16, and Royce Casey, 18, are scheduled for preliminary hearings later this month. Had he gone to trial and been convicted, Fiorella could have received two life sentences, one for murder and one for torture, his lawyer said. Fiorella was also charged with rape, rape in concert and mayhem mayhem (mā`hĕm, mā`əm), in common law, the crime of willfully injuring a person so as to diminish his or her capacity for self-defense. , all of which were dismissed as part of his no-contest plea, the lawyer said. |
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