07 April 2021 :
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Laura Laesecke resentenced former death-row prisoner Jamelle Armstrong to life without possibility of parole after the California Supreme Court reversed his death sentence in February 2019 because the trial court had improperly excluded jurors from serving in the case if they were not equally willing “to impose death on an aider and abettor as on an actual killer.”
Armstrong, now 41, was 19 years old when he participated in the 1998 rape and murder of a Long Beach woman committed by his older half-brother Warren Hardy and Kevin Pearson, both of whom were sentenced to death. He was tried separately and sentenced to death in 2004. Prosecutors declined to seek to resentence Armstrong to death, citing new Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s directive against pursuing the death penalty.
https://lbpost.com/news/death-penalty-life-sentence-gascon-jamelle-armstrong
