Approved
By: JDE
Release Date: January
24, 2008
Contact:
(805)
654-2340
Cheryl
Temple, Senior Deputy District Attorney
District
Attorney Gregory D. Totten today announced that Judge Edward
Brodie sentenced Rudolfo Sandoval (DOB 02/26/1987), a.k.a.
"Menace," a Ventura Avenue Gangster, to life in prison without
the possibility of parole for the murder of Ryan Jason Briner.
Rudolfo
Sandoval was convicted on December 17, 2007, of the murder
of Ryan Briner. The jury further found true the special circumstance
that the murder was an intentional killing by a street gang
member; the special allegation that the defendant was a principal
in the offense during which a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun was
used; and the special circumstance that the crime was committed
for the benefit of, at the direction of, and in association
with the Ventura Avenue Gangsters street gang.
Ryan
Briner was shot and killed the night of May 5, 2004, on Wolverine
Street in Ventura . After a comprehensive investigation by
the Ventura Police Department, Javier Acevedo and Rudolfo
Sandoval were arrested and charged with the murder. The defendants'
cases were severed for trial purposes; Rudolfo Sandoval's
co-conspirator and co-defendant in the murder, Javier Acevedo,
was previously convicted and sentenced to life in prison without
the possibility of parole on June 26, 2007.
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