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    Ammar Harris Trial: Day 2 focuses on technical testimony

    LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) -- The second day of the Ammar Harris murder trial brought highly technical testimony to the jury before the court broke for lunch. The prosecution spent most of the morning focusing on evidence from Metro investigators.

    Officer Jeff Bangle was called to the stand because of his specialty in handling incidents where people are killed. Bangle told jurors where he believes people and vehicles were, on Las Vegas Boulevard, on the morning of February 21, 2013.

    Ammar Harris is accused of firing a weapon and setting off a chain-reaction crash that killed three people. Prosecutors say the motive was road rage, while Harris' attorneys say it was self defense.

    Another Metro investigator told the jury that he gathered security video from over 30 sources; from Strip casinos, from Metro, and in once case video from a cab company. Prosecutors told the jury the clips create a visual timeline of what happened before, during and after the shooting.

    If convicted as charged, Harris faces the death penalty. It's expected the trial will last 5 weeks.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Prosecution rests its case in Ammar Harris trial

    Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - The prosecution rested its case Wednesday in the murder trial against Ammar Harris.

    Harris has pleaded not guilty to charges related to a shooting and fiery explosion on the Las Vegas Strip that left three dead in 2013.

    On Tuesday, a woman who Harris was staying with in California testified. He was arrested in apartment a few days after the shooting.

    "He had said he wanted to turn himself in, so we came back to my apartment and talked about it," Courtney Harper said. "He changed his mind."

    The defense is expected to rest Thursday with jury instructions on Friday.

    http://www.courtchatter.com/#!Prosec...f25a21acbf809d
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Defense rests in Ammar Harris death penalty trial

    By David Ferrara
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal

    Jurors are expected to hear closing arguments Monday in the death penalty trial of Ammar Harris, a felon charged in a shooting that led to a fiery crash that left three dead on the Strip.

    While prosecutors introduced two of Harris's prior convictions — possession of a stolen firearm and bribery of a public officer — during the five days of testimony that wrapped up Thursday, the jury will not be told of his conviction on sexual assault and robbery charges. Prosecutor David Stanton declined to elaborate on why the latter conviction would not be introduced.

    Authorities say Harris shot and killed Kenny "Clutch" Cherry Jr. after pulling alongside the victim's Maserati
    in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 21, 2013. As the bullet plowed through Cherry's chest, he crashed his car into a taxi, causing an explosion that killed driver Michael Boldon and his passenger, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund of Maple Valley, Wash. A passenger in Clutch's Maserati suffered a minor gunshot wound and survived.

    After calling two witnesses, defense attorneys rested their case Thursday afternoon.

    Harris faces three counts of murder with use of a deadly weapon, one count of attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon, two counts of discharging a firearm into a vehicle, and five counts of discharging a firearm out of a vehicle.

    If convicted, he could be sentenced to death.

    http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/la...-penalty-trial
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Jury quickly convicts Ammar Harris in Strip shooting that left three dead

    By David Ferrara
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal

    A Clark County jury took less than 30 minutes Monday to convict Ammar Harris of killing three people on the Strip.

    Tehran Boldon, whose brother Michael Boldon was slain, walked out of the courtroom with a smile on his face after a clerk read the verdict.

    "It didn't take long for them to see what we all knew," Boldon said. "He's done. That's it. No more Ammar Harris. And we can find closure. I didn't think there would be closure for me, but I'm starting to feel that. I'm starting to feel the weight leave. So I'm very happy for that."

    Prosecutors said the self-identified pimp fired five shots in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 21, 2013, because he felt disrespected.

    The first bullet struck Kenny "Clutch" Cherry Jr., who had been driving a Maserati alongside Harris's Range Rover. Prosecutors said Harris thought he was shooting at a man whom he had quarreled with just moments before at Aria.

    After Cherry was shot, he crashed his car into a taxi, causing a fiery explosion that killed driver Michael Boldon and his passenger, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund of Maple Valley, Wash. A passenger in Clutch's Maserati suffered a minor gunshot wound and survived.

    "When (Harris) feels disrespected, other people pay the consequences," Chief Deputy District Attorney Pamela Weckerly told jurors. "The tragedy of this case is that three people are dead simply because of his sense of insult."

    After more than two hours of closing arguments, the jury of eight women and four men returned guilty verdicts on 11 charges: three counts of murder with use of a deadly weapon, one count of attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon, two counts of discharging a firearm into a vehicle, and five counts of discharging a firearm out of a vehicle.

    The same panel is slated to determine next week whether Harris should be sentenced to death.

    Moments before the shooting, near the Aria valet, Harris flashed a wad of cash to show that he was "somebody," and "I got money, too," Chief Deputy District Attorney David Stanton said.

    Harris had quarreled outside the former Haze nightclub with a man.

    When pulled alongside Clutch in the Maserati, Harris asked "What's popping?"

    "The answer is, 'I don't know you,'" Stanton said.

    Harris took that as an insult.

    Defense attorneys tried to show that someone else at the Aria had waved a gun and that Harris felt his life was being threatened.

    Harris endured a "very real, very reasonable fear that he was about to be shot," lawyer Tom Ericsson said.

    But instead of driving away from the Maserati, Harris cut the vehicle off and drove next to it at a stoplight on the Strip before firing from his .40-caliber handgun. Police never found a weapon in the Maserati.

    "The only potential danger he was facing was maybe a bruised ego," Weckerly said.

    Cherry's father, Ken Cherry Sr., said his son had been wrongly painted as a pimp in media reports after the shooting. That allegation, he said, came from a "disgruntled girlfriend."

    Cherry called the verdict "justice as promised."

    http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/la...eft-three-dead
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    In deciding on death, jurors won't hear all of Ammar Harris' criminal history

    In seeking the death penalty against Ammar Harris next week, prosecutors are expected to dredge into his criminal past, including the fact that he has been a pimp "most of his adult life."

    The same jury that took less than 30 minutes on Monday to convict Harris on 11 counts, three of which were first-degree murder, will decide whether he should be executed.

    That decision comes after what's known in Nevada as a penalty phase, something like a second trial in which prosecutors dig up a defendant's criminal history.

    Defense attorneys research his entire life, from the circumstances of his birth to the moments of his arrest.

    Prosecutor's said Harris pulled alongside Kenny "Clutch" Cherry Jr.'s Maserati on the Strip and fired a bullet that plowed through Cherry's chest.

    The Maserati slammed into a taxi, causing an explosion that killed driver Michael Boldon and his passenger, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund. A passenger in Clutch's Maserati suffered a minor gunshot wound and survived.

    Lawyer Robert Langford said he planned to talk about Harris' childhood, psychological issues and educational issues, but declined to go into detail.

    Legally, Harris could receive the death penalty for each of the three people he killed.

    Prosecutors said Harris regularly abused girlfriends, tried to escape from jail, bribed corrections officers and plotted killing witnesses.

    But prosecutors recently agreed they would not discuss Harris' 2013 conviction on sexual assault and robbery charges, for which he was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

    That wasn't always the situation. Five days after his conviction, prosecutors amended court filings so the conviction could be used against Harris in death penalty proceedings.

    Last month, prosecutors filed a notice of 31 aggravating factors, including the 11 counts tied to the February 2013 shooting.

    Harris's rape conviction was appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court and the verdict could be reversed.

    Langford argued with the state's high court that District Judge Kathleen Delaney, who oversaw all Clark County criminal cases against Harris, did not properly evaluate whether he could represent himself in trial for the rape allegations.

    Harris told the judge his relationship with his lawyers had "dissolved and was irreparable," Langford wrote in an appeal. Harris thought he was in the best position to present his defense.

    Prosecutors were not present when Delaney questioned Harris about whether he understood that he had a right to be represented by a lawyer.

    The judge "commented on several occasions how intelligent and well-spoken" Harris was, Langford wrote. But Delaney ultimately decided that he "lacked the skills necessary to represent himself."

    Prosecutors first announced in May 2013 that they would seek capital punishment against Harris, saying in part that the murder was committed by someone who had been convicted of a felony "involving the use or threat of violence," referring to the allegations in the shooting. Four months later, they used the same language in reference to the rape conviction.

    When asked about why it would not be revealed to the jury in the death penalty case, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson declined to comment.

    While prosecutors are not expected to discuss Harris' most serious prior crime, they plan to tell jurors about his other troubles with the law.

    In 2004, at age 18, Harris was convicted of possession of a stolen gun in South Carolina. Four months into his probation on that case, he was facing another felony for selling marijuana. He would later plead guilty to a misdemeanor.

    Harris was first arrested on the sexual assault charges in 2010, but prosecutors said he was "accidentally let out of jail" and fled to California, where he lived as a fugitive until 2013.

    But jurors will hear about other allegations of abuse against women.

    Harris attacked Courtney Harper, a woman he dated in 2010, on at least three occasions, prosecutors said. She was ironing his shirt and he told her he loved her.

    When she refused to return the gesture, he held a hot iron to her face. Later, he loaded a live round into a revolver, placed the gun against her head and pulled the trigger.

    On another occasion, he punched her in the eye after she told him he was too drunk to drive.

    Prosecutors said he also attacked Yenesis Alfonso at least 100 times. She was inside the Range Rover with Harris when he fired five shots on the Strip.

    He threatened her family, broke her ribs and twisted one of her knees, causing it to "pop out." He shoved her into a dresser and held a hot iron over her head.

    "He repeatedly dropped the iron, only to catch it before it came into contact with her face," prosecutor Pamela Weckerly wrote. "The iron was on and the witness could feel the heat radiating."

    At the time of Harris' sentencing in the sexual assault case, prosecutor Lisa Luzaich told Delaney: "There is nobody who can say he's a productive member of society."

    While serving his sentence for the sexual assaults and robbery, Harris pleaded guilty to bribing a corrections officer. Authorities said Harris paid money to get alcohol, cellphones and other contraband behind bars.

    Weckerly wrote that Harris made phone calls while incarcerated that "demonstrate his character and attitudes toward violence and the criminal justice system."

    He talked of a "forcible" escape from custody, had conversations about executing witnesses and made references to prostitution. He solicited women "for the sole purpose of earning money for Ammar Harris."

    Prosecutors also plan to present testimony, photos and video from the family of the Strip shooting victims.

    "People like him will not be tolerated in this city," said Boldon's brother, Tehran Boldon. "He's done. His career is over. His pimp days are over. ... No more Ammar Harris. That's it. It's a wrap."

    http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/la...iminal-history

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    Death penalty phase to begin in Vegas Strip fireball case

    LAS VEGAS (AP) - A jury returns to a Nevada courtroom Monday to begin deciding whether a self-styled pimp gets the death penalty for killing three people by shooting into a moving car and triggering a fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip.

    Ammar Harris was found guilty Oct. 26 of killing an aspiring rapper in a Maserati sports car and a cab driver and a tourist from Washington state in a taxi that exploded in a fireball early Feb. 21, 2013.

    The 29-year-old Harris grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and lived in Miami, Atlanta and Las Vegas.

    He’s got prior felony convictions for a weapon in South Carolina in 2004; rape and robbery in Las Vegas in 2013; and this year for bribing a Nevada prison guard to smuggle cellphones to him.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-strip-fireba/

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    Defendant absent from penalty portion of Vegas fireball case

    LAS VEGAS — With the defendant absent from the penalty phase of his trial, jurors began hearing Monday from prosecutors and family members of three people killed in a shooting and fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip.

    Ammar Asim Faruq Harris's life will be in hands of the jury being asked to impose the death penalty after finding the self-styled pimp guilty a week ago of three counts of murder in the spectacular pre-dawn carnage on Feb. 21, 2013.

    Witnesses compared it with a scene from a Hollywood action film.

    Clark County District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney told the panel that Harris exercised his choice to be absent, and they can't hold the decision against him.

    Prosecutor David Stanton told jurors that now that they found 29-year-old Harris guilty, they would hear how he was consistently violent and had a history of injuring and threatening girlfriends.

    He also had prior felony convictions in a weapon case in South Carolina in 2004 and for bribing a Nevada prison guard to smuggle cellphones to him last year.

    "What happened that night is not an aberration," Stanton said. "It is consistent with who Ammar Harris is as an adult."

    Stanton didn't tell jurors the reason Harris is serving 16 years to life for his convicted in 2013 of raping and robbing an 18-year-old woman at a Las Vegas condominium. That case is being appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court.

    Defense attorney Robert Langford said he'll bring in a forensic psychologist to describe an upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, that put Harris on a path to violence and crime. Harris also lived in Atlanta and Miami.

    "Not an excuse. Something to take into account," Langford said. "The defense believes the appropriate sentence is not death."

    No one disputed during his weeklong trial that Harris was the shooter.

    The jury learned that he argued with a man at a hip-hop concert at the Aria resort, and viewed taxi dashboard video showing shots fired from a black Range Rover with Harris at the wheel into a Maserati on neon-lit Las Vegas Boulevard.

    Although police found no gun in the wrecked Maserati, and no bullet holes were found in the Range Rover, Harris' lawyers maintained the shooting was self-defense.

    Aspiring rapper Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr. died in the Maserati. A passenger, Freddy Walters, was wounded. The sports car then crashed into a taxi that erupted in flames, killing cab driver Michael Boldon and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund of Maple Valley, Washington.

    Harris grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and lived in Miami and Atlanta. He fled Las Vegas the day after the shooting, and was arrested a week later in Los Angeles.

    A Las Vegas police detective, Terri Miller, told the jury that Harris was recorded on a jail telephone in Los Angeles in apparently trying to get girlfriend Yenesis Alfonso to hire an armed assault team for $20,000 to ambush the van in which he was transferred in custody to Las Vegas in March 2013.

    Harris said he wanted to escape to Cuba or Mexico, Miller said.

    Alfonso and another former Harris girlfriend testified that he punched, choked and threatened them with hot clothing irons held close to their faces.

    Courtney Harper said she was terrified when Harris appeared to load a new revolver with a bullet, spun the cartridge, pursued her when she tried to hide in the bathroom, and put the gun to her head before pulling the trigger.

    "He asked me if I trusted him," Harper testified. "After, he told me it was just a joke."

    Alfonso recalled once being hospitalized in Miami with two broken ribs, and testified that she couldn't count the number of times Harris attacked her.

    http://www.kirotv.com/ap/ap/florida/...ip-fire/npDys/

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    Prosecutor challenges psychologist's report in death case

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A forensic psychologist testified Tuesday that a structured environment like prison might help a self-styled pimp convicted of killing three people in a shooting and fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip.

    But a prosecutor provided records showing that Ammar Asim Faruq Harris had disciplinary trouble in prisons in South Carolina and in Nevada — where he was convicted of bribing a guard to smuggle items to him.

    Prosecutor David Stanton undercut psychologist Shera Bradley's conclusions that Harris grew up sexually abused, neglected and impoverished and that the 29-year-old Harris might benefit from a controlled prison environment without access to drugs, alcohol or weapons.

    "Are you aware ... that what was actually smuggled into High Desert State Prison involving Ammar Harris was cellphones, chicken wings, alcohol and methamphetamine?" Stanton asked.

    Stanton and prosecutor Pamela Weckerly on Wednesday will urge the jury to sentence Harris to death. Defense attorneys Robert Langford and Thomas Ericsson will seek life in prison.

    Bradley acknowledged during questioning by Stanton that most of her conclusions about Harris were based on his own accounts and documents collected by his defense team.

    Harris again chose not to attend his death penalty hearing after being found guilty Oct. 26 of three counts of murder and other charges in the February 2013 vehicle-to-vehicle shooting.

    He didn't hear wrenching testimony Monday and Tuesday from mournful family members of aspiring rapper Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., who was mortally wounded in a Maserati, taxi driver Michael Boldon and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund of Maple Valley, Washington.

    "We're almost two years and nine months into this," said James Wasmund, the soft-spoken husband of the three-time breast cancer survivor and mother of three who was killed in the flaming taxi.

    Wasmund, who has declined in the past to speak publicly, characterized his wife of nearly 20 years as a "ball of energy" and emotional center of their family — and a community coach and catalyst in their tight-knit town outside Seattle.

    He said it became a family joke that he became known by her maiden name, Sutton.

    "We lost a year we don't even remember," Wasmund lamented. "Nobody's moved. Nobody's matured. I just hope she's proud of us. We're not doing well, but we're trying."

    Bradley was the only witness in Harris' defense. She testified that she couldn't reach his mother about his accounts of his upbringing in a broken family in the New York area before he was arrested at age 17 with a stolen gun in a stolen car in South Carolina.

    Harris' father died when he was 2, and his mother didn't enroll him or his younger sister in school while they moved from one public housing project to another or spent time homeless, Bradley said.

    The mother neglected her children's medical and emotional needs, and Harris told the psychologist his mother was only happy when he brought her money.

    A brief enrollment in high school ended when Harris was suspended for fighting with another student.

    Stanton noted that Harris had a chance at probation revoked for failing to follow rules following his weapon possession conviction in South Carolina.

    Harris now is serving 16 years to life for raping and robbing an 18-year-old woman at a Las Vegas condominium in 2010. The jury won't hear about that case, which is being appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court.

    http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/...as-6608235.php

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    Jury: Death penalty for Harris in fatal Strip shooting, crash

    A jury decided Wednesday that a 29-year-old self-styled pimp should be sentenced to death for killing three people by opening fire into a moving vehicle after a dispute at a hip-hop event at a posh Las Vegas Strip resort.

    Ammar Asim Faruq Harris wasn't in the courtroom when the verdict was read in Clark County District Court. Several relatives and friends of the victims jumped, sobbed and hugged.

    "Oh!" Shanna Cherry, cousin of Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., exclaimed before Judge Kathleen Delaney warned the audience there would be no more outbursts.

    The jury deliberated about two hours after a two-day penalty hearing that Harris chose not to attend. The same jury took less than 20 minutes Oct. 26 to find Harris guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder and weapon charges after a week of testimony in the February 2013 vehicle-to-vehicle shooting and fireball crash.

    The judge set formal sentencing for Jan. 4.

    Defense attorney Robert Langford stopped short of predicting success, but he noted the sentence will be automatically appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court. It won't change Harris' housing, because he's already held at Ely State Prison, the state's most secure facility and home of death row.

    "It's a long process between now and his execution," Langford said. "Death penalty cases always get the strictest scrutiny, and I've seen cleaner death penalty cases overturned."

    Harris is housed at Ely State Prison — serving 16 years to life for raping and robbing an 18-year-old woman in Las Vegas in 2010, although the case is also being appealed to the state Supreme Court. He is serving an additional five years after pleading guilty this year to masterminding a scheme to smuggle items into prison.

    Harris didn't testify during his trial, which began with jury selection Oct. 12.

    A psychiatrist testified in his defense in the guilt phase, and a forensic psychologist was the only witness on his behalf in the penalty phase.

    The psychologist, Shera Bradley, told the jury on Tuesday that Harris' father died when he was 2, his mother didn't enroll him in school, and he was neglected and sexually abused while living in poverty in the New York area. Harris was arrested at 17 with a stolen gun in a stolen car in South Carolina and sent to prison after violating probation.

    Prosecutor David Stanton undercut Bradley's conclusion that Harris might benefit from a prison environment without access to drugs, alcohol or weapons. He presented records detailing Harris' disciplinary trouble in South Carolina prison, and he pointedly noted the Nevada smuggling scheme got cellphones, chicken wings, alcohol and methamphetamine behind bars.

    Stanton also played for the jury a recording of a jail telephone call following Harris' arrest in Los Angeles in which he talks about getting an armed assault team for $20,000 to spring him from custody when he was transferred to Las Vegas in March 2013. Police reported taking precautions at the time, but never reported an escape attempt.

    No one disputed during the weeklong trial that Harris was the shooter who triggered the pre-dawn carnage on Feb. 21, 2013.

    Prosecutor Pamela Weckerly cast him as so ego-driven that angry words with a man in the valet area at the Aria resort was enough to spark the murderous rampage that left cars spun-out, crashed and burning at the busiest intersection in Las Vegas.

    Video recorded Harris' black Range Rover jockeying for position with a Maserati in a tire-squealing chase on neon-lit Las Vegas Boulevard, and the sound of gunshots from the SUV before the sports car accelerated through a red light and slammed into a taxi that ignited in flames in front of the Caesars Palace and Flamingo resorts.

    Cherry was mortally wounded driving the Maserati. A passenger, Freddy Walters, was wounded. Cab driver Michael Boldon and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund of Maple Valley, Washington, perished in the flaming taxi.

    http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/nov...l-strip-shoot/

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    Judge sentences Harris to death for killing 3 on the Strip

    By David Ferrara
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal

    A judge sentenced Ammar Harris to death plus 16 to 40 years in prison Monday for killing three people and injuring another on the Strip.

    In November, a jury found 10 aggravating factors that contributed to his punishment and no mitigating circumstances that should have spared his life.

    The same jury convicted Harris of 11 charges, including three counts of first-degree murder for the February 2013 slayings. Harris refused to appear in court for the three days of testimony and argument during a penalty hearing, and he declined to speak at Monday's sentencing.

    Prosecutors said Harris pulled alongside Kenneth Cherry Jr.'s car on the Strip and fired a bullet that plowed through the 27-year-old's vital organs, killing him. Cherry's Maserati then slammed into a taxi, causing an explosion that killed driver Michael Boldon, 62, and his passenger, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, 48, a mother of three from Washington. A passenger in Cherry's Maserati suffered a minor gunshot wound.

    Tehran Boldon, the cab driver's brother who has followed Harris through court since his arrest, wept outside of court after the hearing.

    "I thought I was going to get the closure I wanted," Boldon said. "But he's going to be alive for a few years."

    http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/la...ng-3-the-strip

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