Time to lay hands on this young man. Skylar Deleon or the Black Ranger was convicted of murdering three people, including a couple who were tied to an anchor and thrown off their yacht off the California coast.
Deleon's attorney Gary Pohlson told reporters that he plans to convince the jury to spare his client's life by having Deleon's relatives and doctors testify during the punishment phase about his troubled past.
"He's had a horrible, horrible life," Pohlson said, noting that Deleon's father abused him and later died of AIDS.
Tom and Jackie Hawks were thrown from their yacht in 2004 during a cruise to show the vessel to Deleon, whom they believed was a prospective buyer.
Deleon was also found guilty of murdering Jon Jarvi, of Anaheim, in 2003. Prosecutors had said Deleon met Jarvi in a work furlough program while serving jail time for burglary, and killed him in Mexico after Jarvi gave him $50,000.
Prosecutors said Deleon feigned interest in buying the boat and took a test cruise where he and two other men overpowered the Hawkses, forced the couple to sign over ownership of the boat, tied them to the anchor and dumped them into the Pacific Ocean.
The Hawkses' bodies were never found.
3 comments:
Ahhh!!!
You are totally, falsely accusing my crush Johnny Yong Bosch!!! He was the most famous Black Ranger and is the one in the group photo!
Deleon has one non-speaking part in one episode in 1994. Although, he LOOKS alot like my Johnny... Who is in a band called Eyeshine, now.
www.eyeshine.net
You could totally see the resemblance, though.
My apologies, Mikey! I don't want to ruin the crush factor
Ha ha... Apology accepted. Besides, it takes more than a couple of homicides to ruin my crush.
:-)
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