CALIFORNIA
Fox 40
APRIL 21, 2018
BY SONSEEAHRAY TONSALL
SACRAMENTO — Three convictions for first degree murder, one for manslaughter — that’s the curious reduction in an eventual conviction of one Sacramento murder defendant that may change the outcome of a hotly-contested District Attorney’s race in the county.
Sentencing was supposed to happen in connection with the death of Ashok Kumar Friday, instead there are pleads for a new trial.
It’s been scandalous from the beginning with Kumar robbed, beaten and strangled in the doorway of his own Sacramento home.
Then, a Hindu priest who assisted at Kumar’s funeral – convicted of killing him along with Kumar’s wife, the woman that priest Raghua Sharma had been having an affair with.
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