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    Conner Michael Schierman - Washington


    Conner Michael Schierman


    Facts of the Crime:

    Schierman was convicted of four counts of aggravated first-degree murder and one count of arson in the 2006 stabbing death of Olga Milkin, 28; her five- and three-year-old sons, Justin and Andrew; and Olga's sister, Lyubov Botvina, a 24-year-old college student who lived at the house. Olga Milkin's husband and the father of the two boys is Washington National Guard Sgt. Leonid Milkin, who was serving in Iraq at the time.

    Aggravated first-degree murder is punishable only by death or by life in prison without possibility of release. No clear motive ever emerged from the trial. Schierman had moved in across the street less than three weeks earlier and the attack might have been sexually driven. Olga Milkin was found naked and her sister was partially clothed, but the women's bodies showed no sign of sexual assault. Schierman claimed to have had an alcoholic blackout, only to wake up in the Milkins' home covered in blood with no idea of what happened.

    Schierman was sentenced to death on May 27, 2010.

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    Jury says man should die for killing 4 in Kirkland

    SEATTLE — A man convicted of slaughtering four members of a Kirkland family then trying to cover up the crime by burning down their house should be put to death, a jury ruled Wednesday.

    The King County Superior Court jury decided on the death penalty Wednesday for Conner Schierman, 28, convicted last month of four counts of aggravated first-degree murder and one count of arson in the 2006 stabbing death of Olga Milkin, 28; her 5- and 3-year-old sons, Justin and Andrew; and Olga's sister, Lyubov Botvina, a 24-year-old college student who lived at the house.

    Olga Milkin's husband and the father of the two boys is Washington National Guard Sgt. Leonid Milkin, who was serving in Iraq at the time.

    The decision, read by Judge Gregory Canova, was met by silence in the courtroom. As Leonid Milkin left the room, he said: "I'm very relieved. Justice has been done."

    Aggravated first-degree murder is punishable only by death or by life in prison without possibility of release.

    No clear motive ever emerged from the trial. Schierman had moved in across the street less than three weeks earlier, and deputy King County prosecutor Scott O'Toole said the attack might have been sexually driven. Olga Milkin was found naked and her sister was partially clothed, but the women's bodies showed no sign of sexual assault.

    Schierman claimed to have had an alcoholic blackout, only to wake up in the Milkins' home covered in blood with no idea of what happened.

    During closing arguments Monday in the trial's penalty phase, Schierman fought tears as he apologized to the victims.

    "I know you don't want to hear my words," he said. "You want your family back."

    He asked the jury for mercy, "If not for me, then for those who love me."

    Schierman did not acknowledge the killings.

    O'Toole said after Schierman's April 12 conviction that there was no evidence Schierman drank as much as he claimed that night. He said Schierman made a sexual comment about the women to his sister before the attack.

    Defense attorney James Conroy argued that Schierman's blackout was real, someone else carried out the killings, and Schierman set fire to the home because he thought no one would believe his story.

    Surveillance video from a nearby gas station showed Schierman buying gasoline just before the blaze was reported.

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...yndication=rss

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    May 27, 2010

    Formal death sentence in Kirkland family killings

    The family of 4 people killed in Kirkland will have a chance to speak in court Thursday before the death sentence is formally handed down to the man convicted of aggravated murder.

    The family of 4 people killed in Kirkland will have a chance to speak in court Thursday before the death sentence is formally handed down to the man convicted of aggravated murder.

    A King County Superior Court jury last month found 28-year-old Conner Schierman guilty of stabbing his neighbors Olga Milkin, her 2 young sons and sister in July 2006. At the time, Olga's husband, Leonid Milkin, was serving in Iraq with the Washington Army National Guard.

    Schierman also was convicted of arson for setting fire to the house in an attempt to destroy evidence.

    The same Seattle jury decided May 5 that he should be executed. His lawyer plans to appeal.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    Kirkland father doesn't want death penalty abolished

    By Alison Grande
    KIRO-TV

    KIRKLAND, Wash. - A Kirkland man whose entire family was murdered in 2006 does not want the death penalty abolished.

    Leonid Milkin is upset the King County prosecutor Dan Satterberg testified in favor of getting rid of the death penalty in Olympia on Monday.

    "It's shameful, it's deplorable," Milkin said. "They're betraying victims and they're basically helping the murderers get away with murder."

    Milkin was serving in Iraq with the National Guard in July 2006 when a neighbor murdered his wife and children and burned down his house to cover up the crime.

    Olga Milkin was found with her sons, Justin, 5, and Andrew, 3, and her sister Lyuba Botvina, in the burned home. Investigators say they were stabbed to death.

    Conner Schierman, who had recently moved into the duplex across the street, was tried for the killings and convicted.

    In the penalty phase the jury recommended he be sentenced to death. The judge agreed, sentencing Schierman to death in 2010.

    His appeal is still at the State Supreme Court while he sits on death row.

    Milkin wants Schierman put to death.

    "I will be relieved, I will be completely relieved and feel like justice has been served," Milkin said.

    Now he's worried he won't get justice for his family.

    "I'm very upset and disappointed and feel betrayed by Inslee and Ferguson. They're more concerned about keeping marijuana legal than protecting the victims and doing what's right," Milkin said.

    He said if the system is broken, it should simply be fixed.

    "The people who are sworn to uphold the law are not doing their job, quite frankly," Milkin said. "If everybody would have done their job, the system would not have been broken and it would not have taken this long."

    He doesn't think the cost of the appeals is a strong argument. He said it will cost a lot of money to keep Schierman incarcerated for the rest of his life.

    "In my opinion you can't put a price on justice," Milkin added.

    If the state is going to consider abolishing the death penalty, Milkin says it should be up to the voters to decide.

    "I don't want some guy in Olympia who is clueless, who was not affected by this horrible tragedy to make such a decision. I want the people to decide."

    If the voters did decide to abolish the death penalty, Milkin says Schierman and the other men on death row should still be put to death.

    http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/kirk...shed/687840983

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    Washington Supreme Court upholds death penalty for man who murdered Kirkland family

    KIRO 7

    The Washington Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for inmate Conner Schierman, who was convicted in 2010 of murdering an entire family.

    Leonid Milkin was serving in Iraq with the National Guard in July 2006 when a neighbor murdered his wife and children, and burned down his house to cover up the crime.

    Olga Milkin was found with her sons, Justin, 5, and Andrew, 3, and her sister Lyuba Botvina, in the burned home. Investigators say they were stabbed to death.

    Conner Schierman, who had recently moved into the duplex across the street, was tried for the killings and convicted.

    In the penalty phase the jury recommended he be sentenced to death. The judge agreed, sentencing Schierman to death in 2010. Schierman's attorney immediately notified the county of his intention to appeal the verdict to the state Supreme Court.

    While Conner's appeal sat in court, Milkin vocalized he was upset when state and county leaders considered and favored abolishing the death penalty. Milkin said it should be up to the voters to decide.

    "It's shameful. It's deplorable," Milkin said. "They're betraying victims and they're basically helping the murderers get away with murder."

    Washington’s death penalty has been seldom used in recent years. In 2014, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee placed a moratorium on capital punishment, suspending the practice for as long as he’s in office. The state’s last execution occurred in 2010 when Cal Coburn Brown, convicted for the 1991 rape and murder of 21-year-old Holly Washa, was put to death by lethal injection.

    https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/was...mily/731228743

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    Washington Supreme Court tosses out state’s death penalty

    OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the death penalty, as applied, violates its Constitution.

    The ruling Thursday makes Washington the latest state to do away with capital punishment. The court was unanimous in its order that the eight people currently on death row have their sentences converted to life in prison. Five justices said the “death penalty is invalid because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner.”

    “Given the manner in which it is imposed, the death penalty also fails to serve any legitimate penological goals,” the justices wrote.

    Four other justices, in a concurrence, wrote that while they agreed with the majority’s conclusions and invalidation of the death penalty, “additional state constitutional principles compel this result.”

    Gov. Jay Inslee, a one-time supporter of capital punishment, had imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in 2014, saying that no executions would take place while he’s in office.

    In a written statement, Inslee called the ruling “a hugely important moment in our pursuit for equal and fair application of justice.”

    “The court makes it perfectly clear that capital punishment in our state has been imposed in an ‘arbitrary and racially biased manner,’ is ‘unequally applied’ and serves no criminal justice goal,” Inslee wrote.

    The ruling was in the case of Allen Eugene Gregory, who was convicted of raping, robbing and killing Geneine Harshfield, a 43-year-old woman, in 1996.

    His lawyers said the death penalty is arbitrarily applied and that it is not applied proportionally, as the state Constitution requires.

    In its ruling Thursday, the high court did not reconsider any of Gregory’s arguments pertaining to guilty, noting that his conviction for aggravated first degree murder “has already been appealed and affirmed by this court.”

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...death-penalty/
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