Ventura slaying of homeless man draws 28 years to lifestyles

A judge sentenced a Palmdale guy to twenty-eight years to lifestyles in nation prison for fatally stabbing a homeless man 67 times in Ventura.

Matthew Paoli, 33, regarded Friday before Ventura Superior Court Judge Michael Lief. The Palmdale man pleaded guilty June 2 to a felony matter of murder. He admitted to a special allegation that he used a weapon, a knife, to fatally stab fifty one-12 months-antique, Rito Estrada, on Dec. 4.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Anne Spillner said Estrada became stabbed sixty-seven instances inside the face, head, and torso as he slept near a bus bench close to Main and Ash streets in Ventura. A knife changed into discovered lodged inner Estrada’s cranium.

On Friday, Spillner said DNA that became determined below Estrada’s fingernails and that blood on his fleece pullover matched Paoli’s DNA.

DNA gathered from a trail of blood observed leading far from the crime scene also matched Paoli via the FBI’s national DNA database. Spillner stated investigators found a healed reduce on Paoli’s hand.

“The 28 years to life is the maximum sentence for this crime,” Spillner said. “The defendant viciously murdered the victim in an unprovoked attack. He is a real risk to the network, and he merits to serve each minute of that sentence.”

Chief Deputy Public Defender Rod Kidman, however, had argued that the state Department of Justice made a DNA “hit” with items left on the scene that matched any other individual who was a “person of the hobby” in a 2012 homicide in Oxnard and a 2016 murder in Ventura.

At a previous hearing, Korman told the court docket he did not find it rational for Paoli to plead responsible to the price with other proof probable linking any other man or woman to the crime scene.

Paoli, however, again and again, instructed the court he desired to plead guilty. He remained quiet as he turned into sentenced Friday.

Spillner stated one of the objects investigators accrued approximately a block far from the scene became a chunk of a broken beaded necklace. Although that item contained DNA from that individual who became a “character of interest” to other crimes, Spillner stated that person becomes never recognized as a suspect in Estrada’s homicide.

Paoli’s “DNA that turned into found at the sufferer’s body. His path of blood, in addition to the cut on his hand, was the most probative evidence that he changed into the only one who so brutally stabbed the sufferer,” Spillner said. “He received the maximum. However, it would not make up for what he did to the victim.”

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The 80-minute documentary will most excellent pink carpet style on July 20 at the North Park Theatre.

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