Saturday, September 19, 2009

Guilty and Life (X 2)



Guilty and two life sentences?

Sounds like a good job by the prosecution team. Thank you Melisa Skinner.


Murder convict gets two life terms
By Craig Kapitan - Express-News

A San Antonio man was handed two life sentences Friday after prosecutors said he brought a machine gun to a shootout outside an East Side pool hall, contributing to mayhem that led to the deaths of two brothers.

Danielle Deroven, 35, will have to serve at least 30 years of the murder sentences, which will run concurrently, before he is eligible for parole.

“This is a man who doesn't care what he does to anybody,” prosecutor Melisa Skinner told jurors, describing Deroven as the primary shooter in a melee that started as a bar fight but quickly transformed into a “war zone.”

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