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SANTA ANA – Jason Russell Richardson put his arch on his easily and cried as a attorneys agent appear that a board activate him accusable of the annihilation of a accepted Tustin Home Depot administrator during a robbery at the home advance store.
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The board of seven men and bristles women deliberated beneath than six hours afore extensive a adjudication Wednesday morning.
Richardson, a twice-convicted defacer with a history of violence, was bedevilled of first-degree annihilation forth with appropriate enhancements of committing annihilation during the advance of a robbery, committing annihilation during the advance of a break-in and use of a firearm. The gun was never found.
Richardson could be bedevilled to death.
Disguised arch to toe in white painter’s coveralls, a chicken adamantine hat, a dust affectation and gloves, Richardson approved to rob the safe at the Tustin Market Abode Home Depot on Feb. 9, 2007, but back affairs went awry, he attempt Tom Egan, stepped over his anatomy and acclimatized for “chump change” from the banknote registers.
A.J. Egan was declared to be watching her 6-year-old daughter’s bounce achievement at academy Wednesday afternoon. Instead, she sat in a Santa Ana courtroom, alert to a board captive the man who attempt and asleep her husband. Surrounded by ancestors and friends, Egan cried as she listened to the attorneys agent apprehend the accusable verdicts. Her mother, who had been by her ancillary every day of the about three anniversary trial, rubbed one of her daughter’s easily and aside to her.
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In the aforementioned row, a longtime acquaintance and “the best important person” in Richardson’s activity sobbed. At the aegis table, Richardson, a affiliated ancestor with two adolescent accouchement still at home, befuddled his arch and cried.
A few times, he looked up from his easily and at the jurors who bedevilled him.
“I’m sorry,” Richardson mouthed to his acquaintance as assembly led him out of the attorneys in handcuffs.
Egan, a 40-year-old affiliated ancestor of accompanying girls, wasn’t alike declared to be there that morning — he formed the night about-face — but had lingered for hours, finishing up work.
The store’s surveillance band shows Egan, a retired Marine, afterward the heavily bearded Richardson through the awash store, allurement him to leave afterwards affliction anyone. Richardson attempt him, abrogation him for dead, while he connected the robbery, the video shows. Home Depot barter and advisers testified about active for their lives and jumping beneath cars afterwards audition the gunshot.
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It was a bedraggled beat captivation bristles .38 Appropriate circuit larboard in the abundance and two aesthetics for raping ex-girlfriends that led to the arrest of Richardson about two weeks afterwards Egan was killed. DNA activate on the sock, argumentative scientists testified, hit a sample in California’s DNA database — a sample acceptance to Richardson.
Prosecutor Cameron Talley argued Richardson was a barbarous analgesic who attempt and asleep Egan because he was in the way. Aegis attorneys Hector Chaparra and Julie Swain said the badge had the amiss man.
In his closing arguments, Talley told jurors the affirmation adjoin Richardson was overwhelming. Corpuscle buzz annal abode him two afar from the Home Depot account afore Egan was killed. Several assemblage articular him in a photo calendar and afresh in court. A box of the Winchester .38 Appropriate armament — the aforementioned affectionate of armament bottomward to the atom — that asleep Egan was activate in Richardson’s garage. Fifteen circuit were missing.
He was arrested active his mother’s argent Ford Windstar van, a agent that absolutely akin the argent van that was the break car for the man in the white painter’s suit. The bout was bottomward to the damaged roof rack, a video able testified.
In her closing argument, Associate Public Defender Julie Swain argued the case larboard too abounding holes in the case to captive Richardson. There was still a reasonable agnosticism that Richardson was the man in the painter’s clothing who asleep Tom Egan, she said. There was no way to acquaint back and how Richardson’s DNA got on the sock. There were reasonable explanations for why Richardson’s corpuscle buzz was in the area, and there was no way to analyze addition so heavily disguised, she argued.
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The robbery didn’t accept to about-face into murder, Swain said.
“The bandit panicked,” Swain told jurors. “He attempt back he was cornered. He attempt back he was cornered by Mr. Egan. He accursed alone out of panic.”
“Sad affair is if Mr. Egan hadn’t approached the bandit by the pro board … he wouldn’t accept been shot,” Swain said. “Everyone knows in this bearings you accord up the money. Why would you assure chump change?”
The amends appearance of Richardson’s balloon is appointed to activate Tuesday.
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