By City News Service
Feb 22, 2021
POMONA (CNS) - A convicted sex offender pleaded no contest today to two counts of murder and is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the killings of two young boys within a five-year span.
Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, 59, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 27 at the Pomona courthouse.
Monday s plea deal happened as Orange County prosecutors were expected to square off with Los Angeles County prosecutors regarding a proposed dismissal of special circumstances allegations that would have kept the defendant eligible for the death penalty and at least a life-without-parole sentence.
Convicted Sex Offender Accepts Plea Deal in Killing of Orange County Boy
POMONA A convicted sex offender pleaded no contest Feb. 22 to two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of two young boys including one from Anaheim Hills within a five-year span.
Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The 59-year-old is scheduled to be sentenced on April 27 at the Pomona courthouse.
The plea deal happened as Orange County prosecutors were expected to square off with Los Angeles County prosecutors regarding a proposed dismissal of special circumstances allegations that would have kept the defendant eligible for the death penalty and at least a life-without-parole sentence.
A convicted sex offender pleaded no contest Monday to two counts of murder and is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the killings of two young boys within a five-year span.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascòn talks to Adrienne Alpert on Eyewitness Newsmakers, which aired Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. The residents of Los Angeles County, they need a lot of prayers, because they are in big trouble right now with this district attorney, Spitzer said at a news conference Monday. Those special directives are seriously misguided. It is a cookie cutter approach to justice and that has no place in our system.
But in a written statement, Gascón s office says the special enhancements were still in place, and Rasmuson was always facing life in prison. This was a heinous offense and this individual will not share the sidewalk with the rest of us, Gascón wrote. The defendant was always facing life in prison, making the rhetoric from tough-on-crime voices incredibly dangerous and entirely removed from reality. Splitting this case up or seeking the death penalty in a state with a moratorium would have dragged the victims through decades of legal p
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