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    Anthony Deondrea Cain - California Death Row


    Ernestine Matthews and Lamar Matthews


    Anthony Deondrea Cain


    Facts of the Crime:

    Anthony Cain was sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on January 15, 2010 on all counts for the Feburary 11, 2004 murders of Lamar and Ernestine Matthews, both 75, of Cerritos. The bloodied bodies of the husband and wife were both found in separate rooms of the two-story house where they had planned on spending their retirement years. Cain, who was 28 at the time, became the primary suspect when investigators discovered he had cashed a $6,000 check from the Matthews' bank account the day before they were stabbed to death. Investigators learned that the couple had helped Cain with money and other assistance several times prior to their slaying and the death of the pair shocked friends and family and stunned the normally peaceful neighborhood where they lived. The pair had worked their entire lives with youths in Compton, where they also lived for many years. Ernestine taught in the Compton Unified School District and Lamar was a probation officer. Both were extremely active philanthropists in the community where they had dedicated so much of their hard work and time, friends and family said at the time of their deaths.

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    January 14, 2010

    Man gets death in Cerritos killings

    NORWALK - A long-standing murder case came to a bleak end Friday with a 34-year-old Carson man sentenced to death for the slashing deaths of his elderly cousins.

    Anthony Deondrea Cain was convicted in October on all counts for the 2004 murders of Lamar and Ernestine Matthews, both 75, of Cerritos. The bloodied bodies of the husband and wife were both found in February of that year in separate rooms of the two-story house where they had planned on spending their retirement years.

    Cain, who was 28 at the time, became the primary suspect when investigators discovered he had cashed a $6,000 check from the Matthews' bank account the day before they were stabbed to death.

    Investigators learned that the couple had helped Cain with money and other assistance several times prior to their slaying and the death of the pair shocked friends and family and stunned the normally peaceful neighborhood where they lived.

    The pair had worked their entire lives with youths in Compton, where they also lived for many years. Ernestine taught in the Compton Unified School District and Lamar was a probation officer.

    Both were extremely active philanthropists in the community where they had dedicated so much of their hard work and time, friends and family said at the time of their deaths.

    Cain's October conviction for their murders, which included two counts of robbery and two counts of first-degree murder that include special circumstances, made him eligible for the death penalty and jurors sentenced him to death during the penalty phase of the trial last November.

    Norwalk Superior Court Judge Dewey Falcone agreed with that sentence, formally condemning the convicted killer to the death chamber Friday morning.

    After the sentencing, Cain was remanded to state custody, where he will await a series of appeals.

    He has been in custody since his arrest in March 2004.

    http://www.presstelegram.com/technol...ritos-killings
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    On April 16, 2014, counsel was appointed to represent Cain on direct appeal before the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...hSUCAgCg%3D%3D

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    On the 11th of December 2018, Cain filed his initial brief.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...hSUCAgCg%3D%3D

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    A prosecution response was filed on the 8th of August 2019.

    https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca....hSUCAgCg%3D%3D

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    This case has been fully briefed on direct appeal since the 22nd of January 2020.

    https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca....hSUCAgCg%3D%3D

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