A long time ago, I wrote about the cases of Tyquan Knox and Michael Slider. Knox allegedly robbed a teenage girl, then tried to intimidate her and her mother into dropping charges against him. When that didn’t work, he killed the mother. Knox stood trial three times for the murder: the first two trials ended in hung juries, but Knox was convicted the third time and is serving life in prison.
Yesterday, Knox’s girlfriend, Keeairra Dashiell, was sentenced to “life in prison with the possibility of parole after 19 years” after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and attempted robbery. During the first two trials, she agreed to testify for the prosecution in return for a seven-year sentence:
Dashiell, however, proved to be a reluctant and unconvincing witness, often contradicting herself and getting caught in lies.
Noted #1:
After handing down the sentence, [Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael] Pastor spoke to Dashiell at length as she sat quietly next to her attorney with her head bowed. “You made horrific decisions and caused incalculable pain and suffering to others,” Pastor said in a somber tone. “You’re not entitled to pity.”
Noted #2: If this was reported at the time, I completely missed it. What ever happened to Detective Slider?
Taking in the emotional scene was Michael Slider, Henry’s uncle and a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. Slider was fired by the department in 2010 for leaking confidential information about the case after he became convinced that his fellow LAPD detectives had not done enough to protect Henry and Lark from Knox. After an appeals court threw out one of the department’s allegations against Slider and sent the case back to the LAPD for reconsideration, police officials relented and reinstated Slider.
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