“There’s no one on our side,” said a woman who as a teen survived a 1985 kidnapping and stabbing where a 16-year-old girl died. “It’s very unfair.”
Nancy Jo Andrade’s daughter, Stacey Andrade King, front center with a photo of Nancy, son Tom Andrade, center right, and brother Jerry Wilhelmi, second from left, and sister Sandy Wilhelmi, center in glasses, with other relatives and supporters outside the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. In 1989, Mark Christopher Crew was sentenced to death for murdering his wife, Nancy Jo Andrade.
Outside the courthouse Friday, Andrade and King voiced their disappointment that her family’s pleas did not affect the hearing’s outcome, and wanted it known what they are experiencing.King added, “We’re going to fight still … and go after Rosen.” References to the impact of race on capital punishment in California has largely been met with skepticism from the victims’ families, who note that most of the killers and victims were white. But the district attorney counters by asserting that race infects the process on more systemic levels, including how the murders of white victims are more likely to receive capital consideration and how jurors are selected in capital cases.
German’s niece, Lisa Beeman, appeared in court to represent her family and similarly pleaded with Williams to preserve O’Malley’s death sentence. Williams gave similar legal reasoning to what he gave Friday for approving the DA’s petition, which Beeman said gave her a feeling that the hearings she and other victims’ families are scheduled to attend, with many traveling across the country to do so, are largely moot.
“Nothing has changed in the case, but somehow everything’s changed, and nothing’s changed in the law either,” she said in an interview about the resentencing petitions. “All of a sudden, I’m defending myself, and it’s just a weird, strange place to be in.” “Not only is it a knife in the back and a betrayal of the victims, but it’s also a betrayal of the California voters, who have continuously supported capital punishment,” LoBue said, before turning his ire toward the district attorney and governor. “They’re going rogue, going against what the voting people want.”
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