Tijuana Escorts: Jury sentences Rices to death in liquor store murders
Miller has said he was in a car in the store parking lot when the shots were fired.
Both men were in court at the same time before El Cajon Superior Court Judge J. Lantz Lewis, with one jury deciding whether Miller was guilty of murder and another deciding whether Rices should be executed.
Deputy District Attorney Glenn McAllister earlier told the jury that Rices’ past criminal history justified the death penalty in this case. In addition to the 2006 murders, he said Rices has been convicted in a robbery and a carjacking in 1999, two bank robberies in July 2006, and the slashing of a jail guard’s face and torso in August 2008.
Rices’ defense attorney, Mark Chambers, had told the jury that Rices’ mother was a drug-addicted prostitute who taught him to steal when he was a toddler on the streets of Los Angeles.