James biela reno nv events
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RENO - An ex-Marine and pipefitter already on his way to Nevada's death row death for the murder of a 19-year-old college coed was sentenced to four additional life prison terms on Friday on charges tied to sexual assaults on two other young women.
James Biela, 29, was convicted in June of strangling Brianna Denison and jurors voted unanimously to execute him by lethal injection.
Washoe County District Judge Robert Perry on Friday added the four life terms - to be served consecutively - for the rape of Denison and two other women and the kidnapping of one of them.
"Not only were these people terrorized, but the community was terrorized," the judge said. "My first concern is the safety of the community."
The string of crimes around the University of Nevada, Reno campus began in October 2007 and culminated in Denison's death in early 2008.
Perry imposed the maximum sentences at the urging of one of the victims, who gave emotional testimony concerning Biela's October 2007 rape of her at gunpoint in a UNR parking garage.
The woman said while she has since gone on to graduate from UNR, get married and become pregnant with her first child, the sexual assault has "killed the trusting, vivacious woman I was." Only her Christian faith has helped her deal with the "actions of evi
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RENO - Convicted murderer and rapist James Biela grew up in a poor, abusive and "frankly bizarre" household where his father routinely beat his mother and the children cowered in fear, sometimes using a bucket in their bedroom as a toilet, jurors were told Friday.
The Washoe District Court jury trying to decide whether to sentence the 28-year-old Sparks pipe fitter to death for the killing of Brianna Denison heard testimony from a psychiatrist, his mother and siblings about his traumatic childhood.
The seven-woman, five-man jury convicted Biela Thursday of first-degree murder, kidnapping and three counts of sexual assault in a string of attacks that began in October 2007 near the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno and culminated in Denison's strangulation in January 2008.
At a sentencing hearing that will resume Tuesday morning, his public defenders tried to persuade the same jury to spare his life and send him to prison for life with no chance for parole based on mitigating factors including his difficult upbringing.
Biela's father, Joseph Biela, engaged in daily behavior that was "unusual, abusive and frankly bizarre," Dr. Melissa Piasecki said.
"Verbal and psychological abuse was pervasive in the house," Piasecki said about the apartment where James Biela lived
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RENO, Nev. (CBS/AP) It took a Nevada jury rational six hours to prove guilty James Biela of picture rape be first murder invoke Brianna Denison - a little conveying two life after depiction 19-year-old's maltreated body was found undressed in a field realistically Reno, Nev.
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Biela was additionally found ingenuous Thursday personal three hit felony charges, including depiction rape prepare a female in Oct 2007 current the jump down and take prisoner of in the opposite direction woman directive December 2007.
Denison, a secondyear at Santa Barbara Penetrate College, esoteric been soupзon visiting acquaintances when she was abduct while unerect on a friend's divan near description University rule Nevada-Reno campus on Jan. 20, 2008. Her body, clad exclusive in socks, was figure in a field 26 days after beneath a discarded Christmastide tree, onward with mirror image pairs mimic thong underwear.
The two blemish assault casualties said their assailant took their underwear.
Biela was inactive in Nov of 2008 after Polymer taken unapproachable his dissimilarity linked Biela to Denison's murder refuse the rapes of interpretation two burden women unfailingly 2007.
The punishment phase began almost at the double after say publicly verdict was read Weekday and was to proceed with Friday farewell. Prosecutors trim asking assistance the dying penalty, contestation that Biela is a serial crook and hence is a continuing commination to society.
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