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Friday, December 1st:
*Sentencing Hearing (@ 10:30am PT) – CA – Denise Lampe (19) (April 1, 1976, Daly City) – *Leon Melvin Seymour (30 @ time of crime/72/now 76) charged (11/16/18) & arraigned (12/18/18) with 1st degree murder with use of deadly weapon, 1 count of attempt or use of deadly weapon, 1 count of torture & 1 count to 2 prior offenses (enhancement). Plead not guilty. $10M bond. No bond (12/14/18). San Mateo County
Is being housed at Coalinga State Hospital as a sexually violent predator for other kidnappings & sexually assaults going back decades. DNA match.
Trial began on 3/2/20. Put on hold 3/16/20 due to coronavirus. Restart on 7/8/20, and was continued to 10/13/20 (Day 9) thru 10/16/20 (Day 11). Trial was set to begin on 10/12/21 was vacated due to mental incompetency.
Trial began on 10/5/23 & ended on 10/17/23. Jury found Seymour guilty.
Court info from 3/2/20 thru 10/7/20 & Trial info (Day 9-11: 10/13 to 10/16/20) & 8/6/21 thru 5/23/22 reference post #123 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...h-daly-city-1976-arrest-in-2018.400646/page-7
5/26/22 Update: Receipt of Doctors report; additional Info: Original type receipt of Doctors report Judicial Officer Novak Lisa A. Result continued. Court's motion Parties present defendant, Attorney Paul Demeester. Subpoena: Record returned to Clerk's office; additional info: Comment: Coalinga State Hospital. Defendant not brought into the courtroom; doctor appointed to examine defendant; additional info: Comment: Dr. Young appointed to examine defendant pursuant to Pursuant To 1367. 6/1/22: Order appointing doctor(s) to examination filed. Receipt of Doctors Report; additional info: Preliminary hearing 9am on 7/20/22.
10/26/22: Subpoena records received from Community Regional Medical Center. 10/27/23 Update: More than 47 years after a 19-year-old Denise was found stabbed to death in Daly City, a jury took about one hour Friday, Oct. 27, to deliver a guilty plea for Leon Melvin Seymour in a once-cold case brought to justice by investigators who thought to test an old jacket for DNA. Seymour, a 77-year-old inmate at Coalinga State Hospital for many other kidnappings & sexual assaults going back to the 1970s, could only participate in the trial for about three hours a day because he is physically disabled. He was housed at the San Mateo Medical Center for the duration of the 17-day trial, according to District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. Probation Report & Sentencing hearing on 12/1/23 @ 10:30am.
*Sentencing Hearing (@ 10:30am PT) – CA – Denise Lampe (19) (April 1, 1976, Daly City) – *Leon Melvin Seymour (30 @ time of crime/72/now 76) charged (11/16/18) & arraigned (12/18/18) with 1st degree murder with use of deadly weapon, 1 count of attempt or use of deadly weapon, 1 count of torture & 1 count to 2 prior offenses (enhancement). Plead not guilty. $10M bond. No bond (12/14/18). San Mateo County
Is being housed at Coalinga State Hospital as a sexually violent predator for other kidnappings & sexually assaults going back decades. DNA match.
Trial began on 3/2/20. Put on hold 3/16/20 due to coronavirus. Restart on 7/8/20, and was continued to 10/13/20 (Day 9) thru 10/16/20 (Day 11). Trial was set to begin on 10/12/21 was vacated due to mental incompetency.
Trial began on 10/5/23 & ended on 10/17/23. Jury found Seymour guilty.
Court info from 3/2/20 thru 10/7/20 & Trial info (Day 9-11: 10/13 to 10/16/20) & 8/6/21 thru 5/23/22 reference post #123 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...h-daly-city-1976-arrest-in-2018.400646/page-7
5/26/22 Update: Receipt of Doctors report; additional Info: Original type receipt of Doctors report Judicial Officer Novak Lisa A. Result continued. Court's motion Parties present defendant, Attorney Paul Demeester. Subpoena: Record returned to Clerk's office; additional info: Comment: Coalinga State Hospital. Defendant not brought into the courtroom; doctor appointed to examine defendant; additional info: Comment: Dr. Young appointed to examine defendant pursuant to Pursuant To 1367. 6/1/22: Order appointing doctor(s) to examination filed. Receipt of Doctors Report; additional info: Preliminary hearing 9am on 7/20/22.
10/26/22: Subpoena records received from Community Regional Medical Center. 10/27/23 Update: More than 47 years after a 19-year-old Denise was found stabbed to death in Daly City, a jury took about one hour Friday, Oct. 27, to deliver a guilty plea for Leon Melvin Seymour in a once-cold case brought to justice by investigators who thought to test an old jacket for DNA. Seymour, a 77-year-old inmate at Coalinga State Hospital for many other kidnappings & sexual assaults going back to the 1970s, could only participate in the trial for about three hours a day because he is physically disabled. He was housed at the San Mateo Medical Center for the duration of the 17-day trial, according to District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. Probation Report & Sentencing hearing on 12/1/23 @ 10:30am.
