UPDATED, 2:50 PM: A man was convicted today on two murder counts in the 2021 deaths of of model Christy Giles and her architect friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola.
The Los Angeles jury returned the guilty verdicts against David Pearce, 42, who also was convicted on a half-dozen sexual assault charges.
Pearce’s sentencing was scheduled for March 13. The jury, however, deadlocked on charges against co-defendant Brandt Osborn, 45, who was facing two counts of being an accessory after the fact.
L.A. Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter declared amistrial on those charges. Along with the murder charges, Pearce was found guilty on three counts of forcible rape, two counts of sexual penetration by use of force and one count each of rape of an unconscious person and sodomy by use of force.
Read more on deadline.com
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